Ben Thompson on why thin clients are winning in an AI world, and what the collapse of thick client economics means for hardware, software, and the future of personal computing.
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Get Linkwise — free on iPhoneHackers are makers, like painters or architects or writers.
Before 'developer' was a job title, makers called themselves hackers. A refusal to separate thinking from doing. The 'engineer' replacement lost something.
It's harder to read code than to write it.
Joel's first law: reading is the bottleneck, not writing. The Netscape 6 disaster, 25 years on, is still the textbook case of corporate amnesia about rewrites.
The Pragmatic EngineerSecond installment of Gergely Orosz's annual survey of how engineering teams are integrating AI tools, with hard data on usage, trust, and productivity effects.