Google Engineer Shares Fourteen Years of Process.
Also Microsoft is back to deleting homework.

The Fourteen Stages of Grief, Documented as a Performance Review

Addy Osmani, a former Engineering Leader at Google, released a 14-year retrospective disguised as a helpful list. The core takeaway, distilled for the rest of us clocking in, is that the system operates in a state of benevolent chaos and nobody is in charge. It is a corporate memoir that has the emotional resonance of a spreadsheet detailing quarterly spending on desk chairs.

Highlights include the critical insight that "no one knows anything," which should be printed on t-shirts for every project manager, and the comforting knowledge that "you are replaceable," which is apparently the foundation of all large-scale cloud infrastructure. Furthermore, the advice to "bet on boring technology" confirms what the rest of us have been saying for a decade; the only real innovation is the ability to not break things.

Anthropic AI Takes the Bus, Tries to Code on a Phone

Anthropic's latest venture is not about achieving sentience; it is about achieving adequate mobile performance. The new model, dubbed Claude Code On-the-Go, is a concerted effort to shrink a large language model into an 'agent' capable of generating complex code while theoretically standing in line for coffee. This marks a paradigm shift from the AI singularity to the AI struggling with touchscreen keyboards and poor Wi-Fi.

The underlying technology allows the AI to perform a series of self-correction steps to generate better code, which in corporate terms translates to: the AI sends itself a lot of passive-aggressive follow-up emails. The comments section is already filled with developers suggesting that Anthropic should focus less on mobile agents and more on teaching the existing models to properly escape HTML. One problem at a time, people.

Microsoft OneDrive Just Filed All of Your Documents Directly Into the Shredder

We have achieved the promise of the cloud: total, irreversible loss of data, but without the physical fire. Author Jason Pargin, known for the John Dies at the End series, reported on social media that OneDrive deleted his entire folder structure because he paused synchronization to clear space on a secondary drive. This is the digital equivalent of IT replacing your hard drive with a sticky note that says "See FAQ."

The system appears to have interpreted a temporary pause as a request to permanently delete all cloud copies, which is a surprisingly aggressive take on disk space management. The OneDrive support experience was also noted as being profoundly unhelpful, which only confirms the theory that all tech support personnel are paid based on how quickly they can close a ticket, regardless of resolution.

Briefs

• Terminal UI for AWS: A new Terminal UI for AWS is gaining traction; apparently, the only way to make the cloud bearable is to pretend it is 1995 again and everything is text-only.
• Web Development Fun: A developer argues that web development is fun again, which is a phrase that has been uttered every 18 months since 1999 and is followed shortly by a mandatory framework update that breaks everything.
• Wayland: The question of using Wayland in 2026 has been raised, suggesting that the decade-long promise of a display server replacement is still stuck in the "just needs a few more drivers" phase.