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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-02-01 at 15:55

POV: forty minutes stuck in an elevator with the most anxious dog in the world.

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-31 at 14:31

Your YouTube home after your cat got addicted to cat tv

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-30 at 23:53

AI-generated software is basically the new 3D printing—hyped up with big promises and awesome for simple use cases, but unless there’s a game-changing breakthrough, it’s more of a tool to complement product engineering than a full-on replacement.

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-28 at 14:16

The best way to build AI applications isn’t through monolithic, hand-crafted pipelines full of magic prompts. Instead, break features into small, composable tasks.

Here’s how Outropy does that in a regular Rails app https://outropy.ai/blog/2025-01-24-building_apps_with_ruby_on_rails/

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-27 at 15:39

“—“ is the new “delve”

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-26 at 01:43

Vera didn’t believe me when I told her IBM had a book of corporate hymns so I had to find it online and sing some for her https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/songs-of-the-ibm.pdf

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-23 at 20:01

My favorite thing to do with AI is to send it my test files and ask it to make them Critical Role-themed

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-23 at 15:01

I'm pretty sure that Meta hasn't launched a speech-to-text thing in WhatsApp—a feature everyone would love—because it's not GenAI, so nobody gets promoted by building it.

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-21 at 15:03

Blows my mind that with all this shit happening we have basically no popular band recording anything close to political.

Just this Monday would give any 80s or 90s alt rock bands material for five records worth of songs.

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-20 at 01:50

Unfortunately on linkedin because everything sucks: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pcalcado_i-have-a-tolerancehate-relationship-with-activity-7286906031001989120-c5nW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-20 at 01:50

I give @rubyonrails.org a lot of shit, but need to admit that the internal architecture has improved drastically. I wrote more on the link below, but they did a great job converting common cases where you'd have to monkey patch half the world into well-defined APIs.

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-18 at 16:27

Elder millennials have a competitive advantage in today's tech world.

The world is returning to the 90s/ 00s: corporations align with whoever is in power, execs and managers are trying to commoditize or eliminate programmers and designers…

We grew up on that shit. We know what happens next.

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-17 at 11:55

Answer.ai has a sobering take on Devin after using it for 20 tasks over a month.

What surprises me here is that it performed poorly on greenfield tasks—brownfield was always a given.

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-01-08-devin.html

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-16 at 16:33

Excited to keynote @infoq.com Dev Summit Boston '25! Everyone's hyping AI agents, but we only hear from investors & experts. Time for the builder's perspective.

At @qconferences.com and other conferences in the 2010s, we focused on democratizing web-scale tech. Now it's time to do the same with AI!

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-16 at 14:48

That web3 investors aren't flooding AT protocol startups with cash tells you it was never about decentralization and ownership.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-15 at 18:51

I'm trying to imagine someone just casually strolling across Google Maps and bumping into businesses.

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-15 at 17:17

Is anyone having trouble sharing Pycharm/IntelliJ windows on Google Meet/Chrome? They become unresponsive, which is really killing my demos 😢. The solution I found so far was to share the whole screen instead.

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-10 at 18:03

If you want a sign of how badly the AI industry needs to adopt basic software engineering practices, just know that the 'groundbreaking' paper everyone's raving about this week as a 'game changer' reveals the revolutionary concept that checks notes you can cache things instead of recomputing them every time.

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-09 at 17:05

Now that so many tech bros are into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, I hope someone finally designs some fun grappling mechanics for fighting games. The dance dance revolution thing the UFC games have is whack.

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Written by Phil Calcado on 2025-01-08 at 12:01

I hate it when I have to leave the house so early my morning podcasts aren’t out yet.

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