Keenan Payne

@keenanpayne.com

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Pixel-pushing web designer/developer. Currently at Bolt.new, formerly at Asana, freelancing for 18yr. Always good faith and cultivating good vibes. Be kind ✌️

@Grady_Booch on Twitter: "Prompting is the new cut-and-paste programming style."

@antirez on Twitter: "It is my belief that many devs right now are not maximizing what they can do with automatic programming because they still look at the code. Doing it makes you the bottleneck. Your time is better invested in new ideas, QA, design, and asking yourself what is your goal."

@ClaudeDevs on Twitter: "Boris sat down with Spotify VP of Engineering Niklas Gustavsson.

Spotify ships 4,500 production deploys a day, and 73% of PRs are now AI-assisted."

@AnthropicAI on Twitter: "We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models."

Front and back of the Remix racing-inspired jacket

@steph_palazzolo on Twitter: "New w/
@leomschwartz @amir:

The Trump admin has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns.

On Thursday, CEO Sam Altman told staff that the government will be approving access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer, a highly unusual approach."

@mitrajoy_ on Twitter: "having our first trillionaire before everyone has access to clean water is a failure of the human species"

@Grady_Booch on Twitter: "And I am a realist who understands computing and AI deeply, having worked in the field for over five decades - where I continue to work - both witnessing the changes as well as inventing things that made those changes possible.

AI is useful.

But I’m certain AI will not do 80% of the economically valuable work humans do today, for 80% of all jobs."

Data visualization shows AI industry spend and revenue, highlighting significant losses by major companies like Amazon and Google.

@MTSlive on Twitter: "SITUATION DETECTED: Microsoft is limiting internal employee use of Fable 5 over Anthropic's new data retention requirements, per The Verge.

Fable 5 requires data retention to operate its safety classifiers, unlike other Claude models which run under Zero Data Retention rules."

@claudeai on Twitter: "Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available."

@kushbhuwalka on Twitter: "I’m pretty AI pilled. This loop stuff is slop. I respect
@steipete
for his innovation - but openclaw is a bloated unstable pile of garbage because of stuff like this.

I’m all for loops of crons and webhooks where an AI agent wakes up and performs some task like cleanup, or updates the docs or triages errors. I think these are great for standard well defined tasks with a fairly deterministic route (a.k.a workflows).

I think what these guys are talking about now is jumping the gun. The models need to be guided, and you want to atleast skim their output so you don’t end up with slop. Humans are far better planners and architects than models.

You absolutely shouldn’t delegate away prompting and reviews in my opinion. this encourages the creation of crappy buggy unsafe software that actually hurts adoption."

@rohanpaul_ai on Twitter: ""I don't prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops. And this is transition we're going to see for the rest of the year."

- Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic."

@ThePrimeagen on Twitter: "I am so thoroughly convinced that anyone who thinks AI 100x's their output is a liar or a lunatic.

You are telling me you can make 1 years worth of decisions in 3.65 days? Let alone describing those accurately and coaxing the result from the AI... (1.8 days european time)?"

@Grady_Booch on Twitter: "AGI is closer than you think."

@ThePrimeagen on Twitter: "Honestly why stop at 100x engineer?

Just use more agents, you literally could be 1000x, 10000x, 100000x just by scaling

You could what you use to in an entire year in one second"

@wesbos on Twitter: "Give me your hottest takes on generative UI, MCP apps, agents returning widgets, and chat as the final interface

Working on a talk for JS Nation and I want to spotlight some differing opinions"

@thdxr on Twitter: "any lack of polish now gets equated to ai slop

all fields: software bugs, bad movie, bad video game

before the audience would make a judgement about your skills, which was tolerable because you can get better

now they make a judgement about your character (lazy/fraud/etc)"

A black backpack displays a collection of Magic: The Gathering cards, hole-punched and attached with a carabiner.

A graffiti drawing of a mouse head with an exclamation and the phrase "OH YEAH" next to a poster titled "CRIMINAL" listing criminal accusations against the current United States of America government and politicians.

@shadcn on Twitter: "Unpopular opinion: I don’t care if most web apps look the same. All I care about is whether it does what it says and does it fast.

Make it fast. Make the UX obvious. Put the right things in the right place and little to no animations."

@artman on Twitter: "Today is a hard day. I shared this note with the @linear team today: We’ve made the difficult decision to increase our workforce. This is not a cost-cutting exercise or a reflection of anyone’s performance. We’re simply reimagining every role for the agentic AI era. We’re hiring. We’re sorry about that."

@ycombinator on Twitter: "GStack is an open-source toolkit built by YC President & CEO
@garrytan
that turns Claude Code into an AI engineering team — with skills for office hours, design, code review, QA, and browser testing.

In this video, Garry walks through how GStack works, starting with Office Hours, a skill modeled after real YC partner sessions that pressure-tests your idea before you write a line of code. He demos it live, going from idea through adversarial review, design mockups, and automated QA in a single session."

@shadcn on Twitter: "Every friend I talk to is overworked since AI. Working weekends. Always on their phone prompting. Kinda sad."

@DavidKPiano on Twitter: ""Software is solved"
- Non-serious developers

"Design is solved"
- Non-serious designers"

@burkeholland on Twitter: "It would be hilarious if we go through this whole AI thing just to find out that it’s ultimately cheaper to pay humans to do it"

"Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu in the Amazon iOS app, notifying me that I cannot purchase the Kindle version in the app

@levelsio on Twitter: "Why do girls want the bed to be full of decorative pillows that you don't use

But then at night you have to remove all those pillows

Like what's the reasoning here, it's completely form over function huh"

@burkeholland on Twitter: "When I was your age, we didn't generate slop with AI.

We googled it, found it, and pasted it in ourselves."

@adamwathan on Twitter: "// AGENTS.md

Never, ever, under any circumstances, ever, not once, no matter what, try to start the fucking dev server, it’s already fucking running."

“ I would like to suggest that slowing the fuck down is the way to go. Give yourself time to think about what you're actually building and why. Give yourself an opportunity to say, fuck no, we don't need this. Set yourself limits on how much code you let the clanker generate per day, in line with your ability to actually review the code.”

@GergelyOrosz on Twitter: "Perhaps controversial: I think it is a net good that CEOs and founders who are engineers at heart are back to coding with AI agents.

Lots of dunking happening eg on Garry Tan. He's stepping outside of his comfort zone, building net new things + sharing in public."

@jessfraz on Twitter: "Imagine being the president of Y Combinator and blocking every good engineer on this app because they pointed out you were using the wrong metric and instilling future generations with bad advice."

@Gregorein on Twitter: "so... I audited Garry's website after he bragged about 37K LOC/day and a 72-day shipping streak.

here's what 78,400 lines of AI slop code actually looks like in production.

a single homepage load of http://garryslist.org downloads 6.42 MB across 169 requests.

for a newsletter-blog-thingy.
1/9🧵"

@jason on Twitter: "Here’s the truth: we’ve already reached AGI — we just haven’t implemented it broadly.

Millions of jobs are being lost as we speak.

Entire careers will be retired.

The rich and powerful investors and founders who implement AGI will get bizarrely rich beyond what makes sense. It will break people's brains on both sides.

It’s gonna suck for a lot of our friends and family, who aren’t obsessed with their careers, because things are moving so fast they won’t have even left the starting gate by the time the awards are handed out.

We’re gonna have to solve for a lot of second- and third-order effects, some of which will suck (job loss) and some of which will be awesome.

AI will create free/cheap energy, free education, cheaper and better food, homes that build themselves and medicine that makes you as healthy as a 30-year-old when you’re 100.

… change is hard, but humans are the most adaptable species nature has ever created.

We can figure it out."

Sam Altman on Twitter: "I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.

Thank you for getting us to this point."

Garry Tan (@garrytan) on Twitter: "If I can do 16k LOC per day across 3 different projects (including one open source one you can see yourself) then I think almost any technical CEO CTO pair at YC will

That's the bar now"

David K on Twitter posts:

Unpopular opinion: ALWAYS read the code, whether written by an AI agent or sentient meatbag

Too long to read?
Scope it down & redo

Can't understand it?
Use AI to explain (it's good at that)

Too lazy?
Go into upper management

Spotify in-app announcement for their group chat feature, stating "Group chats are here. Share your favorites, with your favorites – now in chats with up to 10 people."

Anthropic reports on distillation attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, detailing fraudulent accounts and data exploitation. Full quote:

"We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax.

These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models."

Cassidy on Twitter reflects on embracing imperfect writing, valuing authenticity over perfect structure in their expressions writing by writing:

“It’s interesting how I used to stress over cleaning up every sentence I wrote, and now I’m like ‘eh, if something is a little clunky, at least people will know it’s me that wrote it instead of AI’”

macOS Messenger desktop app open with a "Messenger desktop is no longer available" notice

Safari browser General settings window

Burke Holland on Twitter responding to angry comments in a Twitter thread highlighting a VS Code bug with the message: "These comments break my heart. Not because we can't improve - we can always improve. But because of the cruelty.

We gotta take better care of each other. It's brutal out there.

I love you all, but I do want you to imagine yourself on the other end of this thread."

“If you build something true, and you let it be free, the signal never really fades. The code keeps running.”

Spotify Wrapped summary showing 63,400 minutes, top genre Cool Jazz with top artist Yusuke Shima.

Dark-themed three-column table showing queued updates to React state: "replace with 5" yields 5; n=>n+1 applied to 5 gives 6; "replace with 42" yields 42; final state 42.

Empty concrete skatepark with rails, ledges, and bowls under leafless trees and a clear blue sky; inset selfie of me smiling

Sunset over a grassy park with leafless trees, a paved path in foreground, houses on the horizon, and a small inset selfie of me smiling

Bold yellow-orange text on a blue background reading "DEMOCRATS for Folding under pressure" as a satirical political slogan inspired by Zohran's campaign

Twitter post showing a bell curve labeled with IQ scores showing three coder archetypes: stressed senior using huge AI prompts at the peak, simple task-focused coders at low and high ends

Silver Toyota Land Cruiser SUV on display with lifted suspension, large off-road tires and hood open at an indoor auto show.

Bold white text reading "BE A GOOD PERSON" over a mural of large red roses painted on a brick wall.

The "MySafeSpace" meme, hosted on the White House website, intended to mock Democrats over the government shutdown. Browser developer tools are open, showing that the "Friends" panel is an image, rather than properly coded, which clearly indicates that no 10x developers worked on this project.