Slam Dunk Software

I started writing a piece about "5 lukewarm programming takes", but I started to really hone in on this particular topic, and realized it might in fact be a hot take, and not belong in my listicle of lukewarm takes at all.

Extremely Personal Software is a breath of fresh air.

Just a few hours ago, Patrick Collison of Stripe announced an early, developer-preview version of a "provision and manage services from the CLI" tool.

I've been looking at the Claude logo since May 2023.

TLDR; / Thesis Open source software is changing, and there's a new strain / a new breed of tooling: Extremely Personal Software (EPS).

This is going to be a really short one.

My preferred use of A.I. for programming is Claude Code, planning mode sometimes, almost never auto accept edits.

Over the last week or so I finally tried Claude Code.

Hello Slam Dunk Software readers!

What are the signs, for you, that text was generated by Artificial Intelligence?

A lot of people add unnecessary preambles to their LLM prompts—and that’s what this post is pushing back on.

Donald Knuth is quoted as saying: Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

There's a new pope, and he's from Chicago!

SpacetimeDB is a unique "database", written in Rust, that was developed by Clockwork Labs, and a month ago made a bit of a splash with their promotional video.

Lamenting The Enshittification of Substack The wave of enshittification has finally reached the shores of Substack in the form of Substack Reels.