Weeknotes #57 (December 06, 2025)

Posted on: Dec 06, 2025

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.

Things I am working on

I've been thinking about using AI for programming projects and the concept of bringing it in for the planning process rather than fully vibe coding. Many services have a concept now of a Plan mode (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) where rather than doing "agent" tasks and actually acting on a prompt, it lays out a plan for what it could do. I still am in the camp that if you use a prompt to make a project and barely read the code and don't know the possible pitfalls that could arise, you likely are to spend more time fixing the generated code than if you did it by hand, but I still do want to at least experiment and seeing in parts of my workflow for personal projects if I can integrate AI in some way and if it actually brings benefits to getting projects actually built.

I've started watching Vince Gilligan's new show Pluribus on Apple TV. It's a sci-fi show with a concept of what if the majority of the world became a hivemind who was happy all the time and the main character Carol wasn't included and wants to stop it. It is a fun experience of what it means to be human among critiquing other things impacting the human mind in the 2020s like Social Media.
For the 2nd year in a row, my friends and I have made tier lists for video games that we've played in 2025. At the top of my list as I expected included Hades 2 and Clair Obscur Expedition 33.
The JS Runtime Bun was acquired by Anthropic and will be more tightly integrated as a key component of their Claude Code tool. When I think about where AI tooling in the coding space is going I feel what is slowly being worked on is the idea of letting code shine rather than always going to a lanuage model. For instance if you have a 10MB JSON file, let some code process and filter it before throwing it all at a LLM and consuming the majority of a context window. I feel with Anthropic acquiring Bun, I hope they continue down that path when building tooling around Claude.