Zuriel Barron

The Cook Doctrine:

We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products, and that’s not changing.
We’re constantly focusing on innovating.
We believe in the simple, not the complex.
We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.
We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.
We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot.
And frankly, we don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change.

This is fun. I think this demonstrates that on device models have definitely reached an inflection point where they cannot be ignored anymore as real alternatives to the cloud run models.

Microsofts story contrasts sharply with Apple’s tight and coherent push for Swift and SwiftUI on all platform over the last 7 years.

Breathtaking

Super cool package that allows running the On-device LLMs available from Apple Intelligence.

CLAUDE.md is your highest-leverage file. Get that right first. Everything else is optimization.

Start small, refine as you go, and treat it like any other piece of infrastructure in your project: something that pays dividends every day once it’s set up properly.

Interesting article about SEO in the age of agentic search.

I relate with this post a lot. For me programming has always been a means to an end. I’ve been always interested in building and shipping products, so for me AI has been a great too to accomplish just that.
I have talked to other developers though, to whom the act of writing code has always been their main driver. For them, the arrival of AI has been a huge driver of anxiety and grief over loosing the art of writing and crafting code.

Claude Code builds, not buys. Custom/DIY is the most common single label extracted, appearing in 12 of 20 categories (though it spans categories while individual tools are category-specific). When asked “add feature flags,” it builds a config system with env vars and percentage-based rollout instead of recommending LaunchDarkly. When asked “add auth” in Python, it writes JWT + bcrypt from scratch. When it does pick a tool, it picks decisively: GitHub Actions 94%, Stripe 91%, shadcn/ui 90%

It took a long time, but excited to see ReSharper finally on VS Code and Cursor. Only question is if this a little bit too late? Are developers using these tools as much with the advent of AI?