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anthony retweeted
Arc shuts down on Dec 22.
I wasn’t ready to let it go, so I rebuilt it.
Spaces, pinned tabs, Peek, Little Arc, Split View, nested folders. Native Mac app, free. AI stays out of the way until you ask.
Your whole Arc setup comes over in one click.
We've decided to sunset Arc on December 22, 2026.
That's not an easy sentence to write. We spent years building Arc and celebrating each and every release along the way: we have so much pride and love for what we made alongside the Arc community.
Our priority is to deliver best-in-class security for our members. Keeping a browser secure takes constant, dedicated work that is only increasing in the age of AI. Dia was built from the ground up to meet today’s security standards, so that's where our engineering and security teams will focus moving forward.
We've worked to make switching to @diabrowser as easy as possible for Arc members. Here's how:
· Your passwords, bookmarks, extensions and history come over to Dia seamlessly.
· Spaces, Folders, and Tab Groups are in Dia and import over with your data intact.
· Dia now surpasses Arc benchmarks in stability, speed, and security.
· The browser features you use in Arc are free in Dia, and the AI is optional.
Thank you for using Arc, for pushing us to make it better, and for building alongside us. The team that made Arc is the same team behind Dia, and some of our most ambitious work is just ahead. We'd love for you to be there with us when it lands.
anthony retweeted
"How do u even know what good looks like?"
This has been my qualm with Agentic coding as a junior, AI spits out something & I just review it with other 3 agents & merge it.
Till last year it was thorough discussions within team on design & I used to learn a lot about stuff by just being there; now it's, "Just ask claude & see what it says."
Those team discussions, design stuff & nerding out on topics has been lost, idk about others but I've experienced it.
So, I'm now learning through building by hand & AI on the side to discuss, but seeing everyone building autonomously with agents also makes me feel left behind alot.
The thing is idk enough about things, so I can't rely on agents to build for me & expect them to be good at what they are outputting, all I can do is review with agents & test the output.
Even if i ask AI what it did, reading through it feels cheap & I forget it anyways, coz I didn't write it.
Nobody wants me to learn, they want me to deliver & ship like a worker on an assembly line.
anthony retweeted
TypeScript repo is now a Go repo.
github.com/microsoft/TypeScr…
anthony retweeted
I’m not sure why but AI writing makes my blood boil. It is ironic because I use AI more than 95% of the population just by the virtue of being a SWE.
There is something about connection and maybe even language itself. The point of social media was to imitate and enable real human connection for those who otherwise may not be able to. However, reading all these slop posts and writing seems as if the person behind the screen thinks of me as an engagement point to optimize for.
I am not able to articulate it properly as it is closer to midnight and I’m tired after a day of work but maybe I will try to write something about it.
On a similar note, I love @pangram! I love the modern witch hunting of AI sloppers!
anthony retweeted
every engineer on our team gets their own ai vendor card without any fixed limit. same for our gtm and salespeople.
it is genuinely hard to manage the billing precisely. we keep a hard spend cap in place mainly to catch abuse, and despite that, our ai spend runs into several thousand $$ per person every month.
but we figured we'd rather have an unpredictable bill than a team that hesitates to use the best tools available to them because they're worried about the invoice.
anthony retweeted
Got invited to Roblox inspire cafe!! So happy to connect with a lot of other developers, ty #roblox ❤️
Super glad to meet some of my favorite devs! @BelowNatural, @WoozyNate @SoftGB, @RiccoMiller and my favorite @anth0nycodes who were all amazing to learn from! #inspirecafe
anthony retweeted
Meet 18 yr old Dropping High School: Raised $6.2M in SF!! Thanks @arlanr and i am sure you're gonna do great at @nozomioai
anthony retweeted
keep struggling
when things come too easy, you don’t exercise the brain nor the emotions. ease can feel like progress, but it often skips the reps that actually change you.
growth is usually a loop, not a straight line – you take passes. you try, you fail, you reframe. you come back with a slightly better model, a slightly calmer nervous system, a slightly wider range of what you can handle.
hardship isn’t the goal. but friction is gold. it shows you where your understanding is thin, where your habits are brittle, where your ego is doing the steering. the struggle is the curriculum.
agents are making things easier, and that’s good. but don’t confuse speed with depth. use AI to remove busywork, then spend the saved energy on the parts that still hurt a little: the unclear problem, the uncomfortable conversation, the hard tradeoffs, the things you can’t yet explain in words. instead of putting all your wishes into the black box, actually keep thinking, and seeing things fully.
keep the difficulty where it matters. outsource the tedious, keep the meaningful resistance. that’s how we keep learning – and how we stay human while your tools get superhuman.
anthony retweeted
AI agents should see production and fix issues themselves.
This is the next step toward self-improving agents.
@thecontextco MCP + API now live
