It’s not celebrity worship, it’s trying to show the absurdity of celebrity worship.

It's in the frame and it's mid. There is enough ambiguity of interpretation (as is the nature of gonzo writing) and one instance of saying willow smith talks like a homeless person to trick people into missing the frame the article adopts, the mean spirited takedown and the worship are the same. This is literally textbook tabloid framing, the tabloid elevates, the tabloid destroys, the tabloid tells you have nothing better to do while you wait in a long line. This article is celebrity worship tabloid brain rot.

Better than rest is a low bar though. Ultimately agents should rarely be calling raw rest and graphql apis, which are meant for programmatic use.

Agents should be calling one level of abstraction higher.

Eg calling a function to “find me relevant events in this city according to this users preferences” instead of “list all events in this city”.

Kamal + cloudflare tunnel is a neat setup.

AI is having the same effect on art as the iPhone did on photography.

There’s a lot more photos now, most of them mediocre, but some exceptional.

It does become harder to filter great photography from noise.

Except, they have one person in the ear. Not 4-5, not people giving opposite opinions, not drive by takes.

By the time a race engineer is communicating with a driver all of that has been shaken out. Specific concrete options are given to the driver, and usually only one.

This is very French!

Pydantic ai is pretty good. There were some growing pains as it moved towards 1.0, but going forward the API should be mostly stable.

It does have slightly more complexity than I’d like, but most of the design decisions are sound and the code is easy to read.

Very cool, congrats!

But if you advocate for this now, newer engineers think you’re doing it wrong.

It's really a company/team culture thing. Either you end up grouped together with people who always chase the latest fads and cargocult their way to their promotions, or you end up with the "Justify everything" camp where anything new is shit on.

Ideally, you end up in a company/team that sits somewhere in the middle, faithfully evaluating the trade-offs of everything, and don't spend 60% of their time reading the latest news from blogs and social media.

Right. Anything other than the most popular way of doing things is "wrong" to them. That's how mistakes get established. This non-questioning attitude seems especially true among frontend developers.

Influencer marketing is a big part of the problem here.

The best practices engineering influencers shill are geared towards shipping a todo list quickly, and no thought is given towards maintainability.

To be fair, though, through their eyes everything looks like a nail.