The Rundown - October 20, 2025
Specific suggestions for sabotage - “E.g. #02678 - Change expense codes without notifying people in advance“
“Put the LLM down. Programming isn’t that goddamn hard.
These days even wordpress-plugin-installers call themselves engineers. HTML “programmers” produce static markup and still have the arrogance to demand the “developer” title. But hey, at least they’re still using their fucking hands.
The bar for programming is in the dirt, but with the help of your Cursor subscription, you’ve managed to wriggle underneath it.”
“Negative space programming involves placing constraints and assertions throughout your code to explicitly define invalid states and conditions. By doing this, you ensure that the code fails fast and early, preventing unintended behaviors from propagating through the system. ”
“Whatever remains of genuine, human content is increasingly sidelined by algorithmic prioritization, receiving fewer interactions than the engineered content and AI slop optimized solely for clicks. ”