The Line of Perfect
Moving the goalposts as AI improves and we travel into the unknown
Quick Links for Devs: Week 27, 2026
Tokenmaxxing was deliberate, Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the Opus gap, Tyler Cowen on who wins and loses, AI diagnosis vs fixes, and Qwen 3.6 makes local dev practical
Quick Links for Devs: Week 26, 2026
GPT-5.6 lands with a government gate, open-weight models undercut frontier labs by 50x, why even the rich won't survive AI, and why your font-family stack is probably wrong
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 18, 2026
Github's demise, the societal effects of AI, and how we process the rich sludge that powers the globe
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 17, 2026
Claude degrades, don't outsource your thinking, and a lovely bit of concrete
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 10, 2026
GPT 5.4 releases, who reviews the reviewers, and making a button in 2026
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 9, 2026
Tinkering on family dashboards, LLMs debating each other, and why writing code is cheap now
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 8, 2026
Some delicious split keyboards, another day another frontier LLM release, and a sprinkling of CSS
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 7, 2026
The overwhelming complexity of everything, another IDE I will eventually try again, and new models from Google & OpenAI
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 6, 2026
This week: OpenAI vs Anthropic, just use Postgres and the enshittification of API tooling
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 5, 2026
This week: SaaS is dead, how to build a runway, and generating utility libraries on the go
5 Quick Links For Devs: Week 3, 2026
This week: It's Claude all the way down - big time coders bend the knee and accept agentic coding is the future..even Linus Torvalds is on board!
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 2, 2026
This week: New ways to browse the web, development is fun again, and we are all vibe coders now
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 52, 2025
This week: leaning on native HTML over JavaScript, a sobering look at near-autonomous coding from Karpathy, scaling LLMs across real codebases, a thoughtful case for conscious LLM skepticism, and a blunt take on agentic engineering without prompt theatrics.
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 51, 2025
This week: a grounded Codex vs Claude Code comparison, Claude Code’s move into native LSP territory, the case for JSDoc as de facto TypeScript, why AI still can’t replace junior devs, and a pushback against AI-by-default software.
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 50, 2025
This week: LLMs at Oxide, building toast components, FizzBuzz in CSS, Opus 4.5 overview, and a holiday CLI challenge.
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 49, 2025
This week: CSS Subgrid layouts, Gemini CLI tips, the HTTP QUERY method, Advent of Code 2025, and Bun joining Anthropic.
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 48, 2025
This week: Non-trivial vibing with AI, generative image quality, NPM supply-chain attacks, Claude Opus 4.5, and open-source maintenance.
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 47, 2025
This week: Morphlex UI framework, Gemini 3 launch, Google's public code wiki, programming languages in the AI age, and interactive type reasoning.
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 43, 2025
This week: Claude Skills deep dive, Tauri for desktop apps, ECMAScript 2025 features, Dan Abramov on debugging, and syntax highlighting opinions.