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Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.

Create AI on your BBC micro:bit using movement and machine learning

So much for being private. archived

Posted on Saturday 18 Apr 2026. 1,331 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.

But I won’t show you the tools because I don’t want to be responsible for maintaining and supporting them.

Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article

Anyway. Did I code less during this first week with Claude Code? You know, I’m not sure. I definitely typed less code, but I still had to put in the work to review and adjust it to my liking. So it’s not 100% clear to me that I was more “productive” with the AI than without on a real feature. That said, it’s true that I got more different things done. At the end of the day, coding agents are tools to add to your tool belt, not to wholesale replace it.

Who knows, maybe this will change with better models, or maybe we have plateaued. For now, though, I’m excited to play with this stuff more.

GIF optimization tool using WebAssembly and Gifsicle - Agentic Engineering Patterns

In the wake of AI coding assistants like Claude and Codex, which can seemingly perform the equivalent of a day's work in a matter of minutes, many of us are wondering if the human role of "computer programmer" is coming to an end. Will the AI bots one day do all the programming for us?Maybe so, bu

Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests

After all this time vibing, instead of feeling closer to my dream, I actually kinda feel further from it. Like the LLM helped close the gap in understanding what it would actually take for me to realize my dreams. Which made me really appreciate the folks who have poured a lot of time and thought and effort into building RSS readers I use on a day-to-day basis.