Chad Fowler
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Author, musician, speaker, developer
https://chadfowler.com/
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The Gradient of Trust
Better shapes beat better prompts
aicoding.leaflet.pub
December 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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“If understanding lives in prompts and specifications rather than implementations, what happens to the craft of programming? … The definition of quality may be moving from "durability" to "regenerability"—from code that lasts to code that can be reliably reproduced.”
December 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“If understanding lives in prompts and specifications rather than implementations, what happens to the craft of programming? … The definition of quality may be moving from "durability" to "regenerability"—from code that lasts to code that can be reliably reproduced.”
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An excellent description of what it costs to *keep* code, not delete it, especially when you use/need tokens for further development.
I could say the same about management rules/bureaucracy.
Thanks for the words I needed, @chadfowler.com.
I could say the same about management rules/bureaucracy.
Thanks for the words I needed, @chadfowler.com.
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
An excellent description of what it costs to *keep* code, not delete it, especially when you use/need tokens for further development.
I could say the same about management rules/bureaucracy.
Thanks for the words I needed, @chadfowler.com.
I could say the same about management rules/bureaucracy.
Thanks for the words I needed, @chadfowler.com.
Compaction Is a Financial Strategy
Why smaller codebases win in the AI era
aicoding.leaflet.pub
December 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Great terms introduced to the new Erisian AI opening:
Pace layers,
Gradient of disposability.
Longer term I am excited to see how even baser layers evolve to help. Durable compute, with replayability & transactionality built in, with dependency tracking, might for example give us new fearlessness.
Pace layers,
Gradient of disposability.
Longer term I am excited to see how even baser layers evolve to help. Durable compute, with replayability & transactionality built in, with dependency tracking, might for example give us new fearlessness.
December 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Great terms introduced to the new Erisian AI opening:
Pace layers,
Gradient of disposability.
Longer term I am excited to see how even baser layers evolve to help. Durable compute, with replayability & transactionality built in, with dependency tracking, might for example give us new fearlessness.
Pace layers,
Gradient of disposability.
Longer term I am excited to see how even baser layers evolve to help. Durable compute, with replayability & transactionality built in, with dependency tracking, might for example give us new fearlessness.
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Amazing. And how have I not seen @exe.dev ? Wow what a cool experience.
Echoes of @chadfowler.com's post from earlier this week here
After reading this I gave exe.dev a shot and the combination of cheap VMs, the HTTPS proxy with passkey auth and link sharing, and the built-in LLM agent is... incredible.
Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.
Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Amazing. And how have I not seen @exe.dev ? Wow what a cool experience.
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jasongoecke.substack.com/p/the-ashes-...
#ai #softwaredevelopment #specdrivendevelopment #sdd #phoenixarchitecture cc: @chadfowler.com
#ai #softwaredevelopment #specdrivendevelopment #sdd #phoenixarchitecture cc: @chadfowler.com
The Ashes Have Intent: Phoenix Architecture and Spec Driven Development
Why the greatest advantage of startups is now available to everyone who's willing to let go
jasongoecke.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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@chadfowler.com's second post in his new Phoenix Architecture blog, called The Death and Rebirth of Programming.
Lots of quotable quotes, so hard to choose. "Soft skills" more important than ever, and this is all be a shock to people who self-identify as programmers.
Lots of quotable quotes, so hard to choose. "Soft skills" more important than ever, and this is all be a shock to people who self-identify as programmers.
The Death and Rebirth of Programming - The Phoenix Architecture
Programming didn't die all at once. There was no single moment, no dramatic obsolescence event. Instead, something quieter happened: the core constraint that shaped software for seventy years dissolve...
aicoding.leaflet.pub
December 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
@chadfowler.com's second post in his new Phoenix Architecture blog, called The Death and Rebirth of Programming.
Lots of quotable quotes, so hard to choose. "Soft skills" more important than ever, and this is all be a shock to people who self-identify as programmers.
Lots of quotable quotes, so hard to choose. "Soft skills" more important than ever, and this is all be a shock to people who self-identify as programmers.
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Wait until they find out the current mayor of New York City hosted an actual neo-Nazi at the mayor’s mansion. Certainly they’ll issue a report or statement decrying that, and demanding he resign.
A lawyer on Zohran Mamdani's transition team has a history of praising & associating with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader infamous for bigoted rhetoric about Jews & other minorities.
The revelations are contained in a new report from the ADL. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/22/a...
The revelations are contained in a new report from the ADL. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/22/a...
ADL report on antisemitism calls out Mamdani transition adviser’s praise for Farrakhan
The details about Jacques Léandre, a local election lawyer who serves on the Mamdani transition’s Committee on Legal Affairs, were contained in a report set to be released Monday by the Anti-…
www.nydailynews.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Wait until they find out the current mayor of New York City hosted an actual neo-Nazi at the mayor’s mansion. Certainly they’ll issue a report or statement decrying that, and demanding he resign.
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Context windows out to thwart all our beautiful dreams
December 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Context windows out to thwart all our beautiful dreams
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While we’re still making “apps” you’ve got intent as the maker.
With malleable software (as opposed to regenerative), I see personal interfaces.
The intent is in the building blocks / libraries at best. More Roblox, FileMaker, RPGMaker, Airtable?
With malleable software (as opposed to regenerative), I see personal interfaces.
The intent is in the building blocks / libraries at best. More Roblox, FileMaker, RPGMaker, Airtable?
December 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
While we’re still making “apps” you’ve got intent as the maker.
With malleable software (as opposed to regenerative), I see personal interfaces.
The intent is in the building blocks / libraries at best. More Roblox, FileMaker, RPGMaker, Airtable?
With malleable software (as opposed to regenerative), I see personal interfaces.
The intent is in the building blocks / libraries at best. More Roblox, FileMaker, RPGMaker, Airtable?
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I think we’ve got apps for a while. And maybe software-as-small-business becomes more viable for a period.
I don’t think industrial era unions fair well in this environment.
I think you’ll enjoy @chadfowler.com’s newest writing:
I don’t think industrial era unions fair well in this environment.
I think you’ll enjoy @chadfowler.com’s newest writing:
December 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I think we’ve got apps for a while. And maybe software-as-small-business becomes more viable for a period.
I don’t think industrial era unions fair well in this environment.
I think you’ll enjoy @chadfowler.com’s newest writing:
I don’t think industrial era unions fair well in this environment.
I think you’ll enjoy @chadfowler.com’s newest writing:
This intuition is why I dug into Quint Lang earlier this year www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww04...
December 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This intuition is why I dug into Quint Lang earlier this year www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww04...
Very important point. And like with all things was already a problem but is now accelerated
Food for thought, thanks. I think where I struggle is if source code isn't where we encode intent, behavior, etc. in a durable way, then what is that new substrate?
For now, despite a change in the tools to produce code, code remains the only canonical encoding of intent..
For now, despite a change in the tools to produce code, code remains the only canonical encoding of intent..
December 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Very important point. And like with all things was already a problem but is now accelerated
Reposted by Chad Fowler
Food for thought, thanks. I think where I struggle is if source code isn't where we encode intent, behavior, etc. in a durable way, then what is that new substrate?
For now, despite a change in the tools to produce code, code remains the only canonical encoding of intent..
For now, despite a change in the tools to produce code, code remains the only canonical encoding of intent..
December 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Food for thought, thanks. I think where I struggle is if source code isn't where we encode intent, behavior, etc. in a durable way, then what is that new substrate?
For now, despite a change in the tools to produce code, code remains the only canonical encoding of intent..
For now, despite a change in the tools to produce code, code remains the only canonical encoding of intent..
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Excited to see @evanphx.dev and team launch the developer preview of @miren.dev today!
Today’s the day!
We’re so proud and excited to announce the Miren Developer Preview. We’ve been hard at work on a better deployment platform for over a year. We can’t wait for you to try it!
Head over to miren.dev/developer-pr... to download it and chat with us in Discord.
We’re so proud and excited to announce the Miren Developer Preview. We’ve been hard at work on a better deployment platform for over a year. We can’t wait for you to try it!
Head over to miren.dev/developer-pr... to download it and chat with us in Discord.
Miren - Modern Infrastructure Platform
miren.dev
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Excited to see @evanphx.dev and team launch the developer preview of @miren.dev today!
Messing around with Skylight 😅
December 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Messing around with Skylight 😅
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Imagine you had to build every part of your software from scratch. Need a database connection? Implement the wire protocol, error handling, and query parsing yourself. Need an HTTP request? Write the entire HTTP protocol. Stupid, right?
February 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Imagine you had to build every part of your software from scratch. Need a database connection? Implement the wire protocol, error handling, and query parsing yourself. Need an HTTP request? Write the entire HTTP protocol. Stupid, right?
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Do you enjoy free stuff? Connect a cluster to Miren Cloud and we’d love to send you a little swag thank you from the team!
Details at miren.dev/developer-pr....
Details at miren.dev/developer-pr....
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Do you enjoy free stuff? Connect a cluster to Miren Cloud and we’d love to send you a little swag thank you from the team!
Details at miren.dev/developer-pr....
Details at miren.dev/developer-pr....
Reposted by Chad Fowler
Today’s the day!
We’re so proud and excited to announce the Miren Developer Preview. We’ve been hard at work on a better deployment platform for over a year. We can’t wait for you to try it!
Head over to miren.dev/developer-pr... to download it and chat with us in Discord.
We’re so proud and excited to announce the Miren Developer Preview. We’ve been hard at work on a better deployment platform for over a year. We can’t wait for you to try it!
Head over to miren.dev/developer-pr... to download it and chat with us in Discord.
Miren - Modern Infrastructure Platform
miren.dev
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Today’s the day!
We’re so proud and excited to announce the Miren Developer Preview. We’ve been hard at work on a better deployment platform for over a year. We can’t wait for you to try it!
Head over to miren.dev/developer-pr... to download it and chat with us in Discord.
We’re so proud and excited to announce the Miren Developer Preview. We’ve been hard at work on a better deployment platform for over a year. We can’t wait for you to try it!
Head over to miren.dev/developer-pr... to download it and chat with us in Discord.