Link: Where's all the shovelware?

A couple of weeks back after the GPT-5 release, I wrote a skeptical post that the fact that the GPT-5 model picker release was botched was something of a bearish sign for llm-assisted programming: Okay, but if OpenAI cannot utilise their own models in coding/dev-ops to avoid a high-profile failure on a very high importance launch, what chance do other companies have? Why hasn’t the A.I. enabled OpenAI to improve their development/deployment strategies to avoid such techincal glitches? ...

September 4, 2025

Link - Perfect web app

A good summation post perfect web app from Matyáš Racek’s blog yoyo-code. I think this neatly sums up how difficult it is to write a good, well working web application. It’s good to have all this in one place. In particular I think this nicely shows some of the trade-offs between traditional server-side rendered multi-page applications and client-side rendered single-page applications. For example: It [the app] should work in a limited way offline. and The app should work without JavaScript enabled (progressive enhancement) Those are both not straightforward on their own, and pretty difficult to achieve both at the same time. ...

August 14, 2025