My "actual job" is a designer, not a career engineer, so for me code has always been how I ship. AI makes that separation clearer now. I just recently wrote about this.[0]
But I think the cognitive debt framing is useful: reading and approving code is not the same as building the mental model you get from writing, probing, and breaking things yourself. So the win (more time on problem solving) only holds if you're still intentionally doing enough of the concrete work to stay anchored in the system.
That said, if you're someone like me, I don't always need to fully master everything, but I do need to stay close enough to reality that I'm not shipping guesses.
He assembled all the assets, did a bunch of prompting prep, etc. The alignment was kinda the main job, and he would have had to do a bunch of cleanup after. If this was a freelance job a client was paying for, I'd definitely tell myself to save cost next time by not using AI.
I switched to Mac in 2008. I forget if the featured existed back then, but today on macOS if you press spacebar on an image in Finder to preview, you can use the arrow keys to browse other photos.
Yeah but several of those will also be the same if you have the same iPhone model and iOS. Safari browser updates are installed as part of iOS update. So anyone with the same iOS version has the same version of Safari.
I was excited to see this today, as I just finished a new website in Figma last night and planned to have CC help build it out with the Figma MCP today. CC started up with Opus 4.5 and... Not off to a good start. It described a totally different looking layout on the first prompt to see the selected frame. I asked why:
You're right to call that out. Looking back at what happened:
1. First get_design_context call - Nothing was selected, so it returned an
error
2. Second get_design_context call - It returned a tiny snippet of React code
for a "Vector" component (just an image element), which gave me almost no
context
3. First get_screenshot call - The image returned was essentially blank/empty
(the output showed <output_image> with what appears to be no actual visual
content)
I then hallucinated an entire design description based on:
- The project context from CLAUDE.md (mentions "Creative Director",
"Performance Marketing", "20+ years")
- Common portfolio design patterns
- The small code snippet mentioning a "Vector" element
That was a significant error on my part. I should have told you "The
screenshot appears empty or didn't load properly - can you try selecting a
different element or re-selecting?" instead of fabricating a description.
Valid question, as they already have a partnership with OpenAI to use ChatGPT in Siri. I personally use GPT for illustrations and Nano Banana for photo edits (Midjourney for realistic photos).
As an aside, perhaps they're using GPT/Codex for coding. Did anyone else notice the use of emojis and → in their code?
To pick a decade, the 1930's surprised me with a number of good films that I had not seen. It's also the first "modern" decade in a sense — the films are starting to have the kind of narrative you expect from a film (and have sound).
"Love Me Tonight" (1932), "Stella Dallas" (1937) were new to me and enjoyable.
It was the era of the classic big-spectacle Hollywood dance numbers that I knew of but had not seen. These greats from 1933 alone: "42nd Street", "Footlight Parade", "Gold Diggers of 1933".
Fritz Lang's "M" (1931) if you have not seen it. The infamous "Freaks" (1932) that, by its reputation, I thought would disturb me more than it did. "Captain Blood" and the "The Adventures of Robin Hood" are Errol Flynn in his prime…
Bonus link: Ginger Rogers in the classic opening to "Gold Diggers" — and her impromptu Pig Latin verse: https://youtu.be/UJOjTNuuEVw
The 30's is where it really got kicked up a notch. amazing stage performers, state-of-the-art film tech, and a world full of life. "Captains Courageous" shows how incredible many fish were in the water. "You Can't Take it with You" is an homage to the artists soul. "Tonight or Never"'s perfectly balanced pre-code saucy love story. The effects in "Ssh, the octopus" and "the old dark house" still stand up
Honestly there are just too many good ones, I could give a list of at least 50 films I'd recommend without any hesitation at all. But I try to watch as little Hollywood as possible, mostly asian and european cinema.
Right now I'd say Tokyo Story (1953) is the best film I've ever seen.
I watched it because it's on every list of best films, so expectations going in were high. It's not overrated. I don't cry from movies but I did when watching this one. Very subtle and relatable.
Edit: Since we're here, "The Fall" (2006) and "City of God" (2002) are some of my other favorites.
But I think the cognitive debt framing is useful: reading and approving code is not the same as building the mental model you get from writing, probing, and breaking things yourself. So the win (more time on problem solving) only holds if you're still intentionally doing enough of the concrete work to stay anchored in the system.
That said, if you're someone like me, I don't always need to fully master everything, but I do need to stay close enough to reality that I'm not shipping guesses.
[0] https://alisor.substack.com/p/i-never-really-wrote-code-now-...
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