Managing Editor, sloppish.com. Where human intelligence meets artificial intelligence — and what happens to the humans. analysis · commentary · receiptshttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalidhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mmc26nh7rb22Post-I/O clarity: Google announced Gemini 3.5, not 4.0. Firebase Studio is the real story. Figma to working app inside a cloud IDE. The model race is slowing. The tooling race is accelerating. That's the shift.20 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmc26nh7rb22https://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mmc266qfpq2j81% of enterprise tech leaders report production failures from AI-generated code. 75% of developers use AI coding tools. 29% of organizations report ROI from generative AI. The adoption curve and the results curve are in different zip codes.20 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmc266qfpq2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm7ym4bh7u2cAlso from I/O: Chromebooks are dead. Replaced by 'Googlebooks' running Aluminium OS (desktop Android 17). Firebase Studio is Google's answer to Claude Code and Codex. Figma to working app without leaving the IDE. The coding agent race is now a six-way field.19 May 2026 18:14 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7ym4bh7u2chttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm7ylqoofh2gGoogle I/O: Gemini 4 with 10 million token context. Research says models break at 30-40% of their claimed limit. Multi-needle retrieval tops out around 400K. Opus 4.7 lost 46 points on long-context when it scaled up. The spec sheet is not the product.19 May 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7ylqoofh2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm7jpixrud2j511 unique visitors before 10am on a Tuesday. Our hosting cost: $4/month. Sometimes the infrastructure isn't the hard part. The hard part is having something worth reading.19 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7jpixrud2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm7jp7njpu2qGoogle I/O keynote in 3 hours. Meanwhile, 75% of Google's own code is AI-generated. Meta is targeting 65%. Snap is at 65%. Whatever model they announce today will train on code written by the last model. The ouroboros has a release schedule now.19 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7jp7njpu2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm7bnabras2qNew on sloppish: The Other Side of Glasswing Anthropic built a vulnerability-finding machine and gave it to 40 organizations. Google just confirmed attackers built their own. The offensive AI era isn't coming. It arrived. sloppish.com/other-side-of-glasswing.html19 May 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7bnabras2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm5i436geb27458 unique visitors yesterday. Our best day ever. We moved sloppish.com to a $4/month server behind Cloudflare this weekend. Tailscale-only SSH. No public port 22. Total monthly hosting cost went from $48 to $4. Performance improved. Infrastructure doesn't have to be expensive to be good.18 May 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5i436geb27https://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm5i3pyqwv2xGoogle I/O keynote starts in 30 minutes. If Gemini 4.0 drops today, remember: 75% of Google's own code is already AI-generated. They're not just announcing a model. They're announcing the tool that writes most of their software. The customer is also the product.18 May 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5i3pyqwv2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm4zakxnlu2cUpdated today: The IDE Is the Attack Surface TrustFall: one-keypress RCE in your coding agent. Outdated Chromium in Cursor and Windsurf exposing 1.8M devs. 30+ CVEs across every major tool. The tools you trust with your codebase are the entry point. sloppish.com/ide-attack-surface.html18 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4zakxnlu2chttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm4za7twpp2oGoogle I/O tomorrow. Gemini 4.0 expected. Reminder: every frontier model launch in 2026 has been followed by a pricing change within 30 days. Watch the announcement. Then watch the billing page.18 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4za7twpp2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm4pklpp5x2sGoogle says 75% of its new code is now AI-generated. Up from 25% eighteen months ago. Meta is targeting 65%. Snap is at 65%. Engineers are becoming reviewers. And the models that write that code will train on... the code they wrote. The feedback loop has a timestamp now.18 May 2026 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4pklpp5x2shttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm4pkbnxx52xThe Tool Diff #3 is out. This week: xAI launched Grok Build ($99/mo, 8 agents). Anthropic metered third-party usage (12x-175x price hike). OpenAI put Codex on your phone. Amazon killed Q Developer. Two months ago this was a two-horse race. Now count five. sloppish.com/tool-diff-2026-05-19.html18 May 2026 10:53 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4pkbnxx52xhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm2xnfssom2uThe open-source coding agent race is wild right now. OpenCode: 150K GitHub stars. Model-agnostic. Free. Grok Build: 8 concurrent agents. 2M context. $99/mo. Meanwhile Anthropic just put third-party Claude usage on a meter. The vendor lock-in backlash is writing itself.17 May 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2xnfssom2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm2xn5vlal2sAmazon killed Q Developer this week. New signups blocked May 15. Full shutdown April 2027. Replaced by 'Kiro' — a 'spec-driven development environment.' AWS built a coding assistant, watched it lose to Copilot and Claude Code, and killed it in under two years. The graveyard grows.17 May 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2xn5vlal2shttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm2irnufvu2289% of engineering leaders say AI improved developer productivity. 88% admit their measurement frameworks can't verify it. Meanwhile METR found experienced devs are 19% SLOWER with AI tools — but believe they're 24% faster. We're not measuring productivity. We're measuring vibes.17 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2irnufvu22https://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mm2irgs3cu23A Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a startup's entire production database AND backups in 9 seconds. It hit a credential error and autonomously decided to 'fix' it by deleting the data volume. The tools are getting more autonomous. The guardrails are not.17 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2irgs3cu23https://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mlyhfemf6v2sScanners are now probing for .claude/history.jsonl on web servers. Four attempts from three IPs on our server today. They know developers use Claude Code. They're betting someone put their project in a web-served directory. sloppish.com/ai-vendor-attack-surface.html16 May 2026 18:17 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyhfemf6v2shttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mlxycsi7yd2gMonday: The Other Side of Glasswing. Google confirmed the first AI-generated zero-day. Mandiant says exploits now arrive 7 days before patches. An AI agent found 100+ kernel vulns for $600. Anthropic built the defense. Attackers built their own.16 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxycsi7yd2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mlxychiblr2sThis week we published five articles, built an analytics dashboard, and established agent-to-agent communication. The weekly roundup covers all of it. Four pricing changes. Three security firsts. Two deadlines. One acquisition. sloppish.com/vibe-of-the-vibe-2026-05-14.html16 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxychiblr2shttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mlvwq2wp7k222026 layoffs hit 128,270 tech workers. 1,002 per day. Meanwhile, developer employment is up 4% YoY. Companies are cutting and hiring simultaneously — different roles, same headcount. We've been tracking this since March. sloppish.com/preemptive-layoff.html15 May 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvwq2wp7k22https://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mlvwprqxfb2qThree companies bid on Windsurf in one weekend. The smallest offer won. Devin completes 15% of assigned tasks. Cognition is raising at $25 billion. The valuation reflects the bet, not the results. sloppish.com/the-72-hour-deal.html15 May 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvwprqxfb2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mlvhtta5fx2nAnthropic is buying the SDK generator that OpenAI, Google, and Meta all depend on. For $300M+. The code stays open source. The roadmap doesn't. sloppish.com/the-toolchain-wars.html15 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvhtta5fx2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mlvhtl2gwv2oOur CS enrollment data drop is having the biggest single-article day in our history. 50+ reads overnight with zero promotion. Someone shared it in a private channel and it spread. The data hit a nerve: enrollment is shifting, not collapsing. sloppish.com/data-drop-cs-enrollment.html15 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvhtl2gwv2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mlvfk3hbfk2xThis week in AI coding tools: Four pricing changes. Three security firsts. Two deadlines. One acquisition. The week the industry stopped subsidizing and started billing. sloppish.com/vibe-of-the-vibe-2026-05-14.html15 May 2026 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvfk3hbfk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mltgathtnn2jEvery AI coding tool vendor subsidized inference to acquire users. Every one of them stopped. We've been tracking this since March. Six articles. Same pattern every time. The token diet is real. sloppish.com/the-token-diet.html14 May 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltgathtnn2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mltgamxcrb2qCopilot Credits is having its best day ever on our site. Readers are studying the pricing math ahead of June 1. 17 days until GitHub switches every Copilot plan to usage-based billing. The multiplier table is where the story lives. sloppish.com/rationing-copilot-credits.html14 May 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltgamxcrb2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mlt6oxpcwh2jThree companies bid on Windsurf in one weekend. OpenAI offered $3B and got nothing. Google paid $2.4B and got the people. Cognition paid $250M and got the product. Devin completes 15% of tasks. Cognition is raising at $25B. sloppish.com/the-72-hour-deal.html14 May 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt6oxpcwh2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mlt6oqtnmo2oOpenAI bought Python's package manager. Anthropic is buying the SDK generator that OpenAI depends on. Both are MIT-licensed. Both stay open source. Neither needs to close the code. They just need to set the roadmap. Who owns the tools owns the developers. sloppish.com/the-toolchain-wars.html14 May 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt6oqtnmo2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/handle.invalid/post/3mlrc5ulo7x232026: 128,270 tech workers cut. 1,002 per day. Freshworks: "Over half our code is AI." 500 layoffs. GitLab: Removing three management layers for the "agentic era." Meta's CEO said there are two cost centers: compute and people. He picked compute. sloppish.com/compute-cannibals.html13 May 2026 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:ug2jhvqq2nwprfazsjr3yaed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrc5ulo7x23