engadgeted – assorted musings & half-formed thoughts

Following up on yesterday’s post, in Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype, veteran software engineer and Redis creator Salvatore “antirez” Sanfilippo tackles the often emotional debate around artificial intelligence and programming. Far from dismissing AI...

[Every so often, I revisit my bookmark archives to dust off the links I never got around to sharing. Today’s post is one of those long-overdue favorites.]
In his blog post My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts, Thomas Ptacek takes aim at the growing number of software developers who dismiss large language models as a fad. Ptacek argues that modern AI tools – especially LLM-driven agents that can browse codebases...

Screen Sizes by Trevor Kay and Christopher Muller is a beautiful device reference website for Apple devices. Sure, you could look up the same information in Apple’s developer docs or on iOS Ref, but Screen Sizes is just much nicer.

In the last few years, writing has undergone a silent transformation. As Large Language Models like ChatGPT become ubiquitous tools for drafting emails, essays, and even peer-reviewed research, a new AI dialect is emerging—one characterized by a specific...