Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

The people this is pandering to will no doubt be delighted to find themselves competing in a job market where every migrant knows English to a much higher standard than they do. www.gov.uk/government/n...

My latest Software Engineering Radio episode is out. This time is with Florian Gilcher on Rust for Safety-Critical Systems. Among other things, we discuss Ferrocene, an open-source qualified Rust compiler toolchain for safety- and mission-critical systems. se-radio.net/2025/10/se-r...

Reminder: the Call for Sessions for next year's Agile Manchester conference in May is currently open: agilemanchester.net/call-for-ses... / @agilemanc.bsky.social #agilemanc

With all the GenAI buzz we tend to forget the value of 100% correct deterministic tools. Thank you Rust clippy!

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Can We Fix Software Engineering Estimation? | @kevlin.bsky.social & @kentbeck.com 📽️ AVAILABLE NOW Watch HERE ➡️ youtu.be/aTpnGG6e0yY

Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.

My latest Software Engineering Radio interview is out. @dmcg123.bsky.social and Nat Pryce joined me to share their hands-on experiences migrating Java codebases to Kotlin. Full of insights on Java, Kotlin, software design and the use of AI for refactoring. se-radio.net/2025/08/se-r...

If you want evidence that using LLMs reduces your cognitive abilities, I offer folks claiming that "A.I." means they will only need senior developers going forward. They seem to have become incapable of even the most basic causal reasoning.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

It's so strange when people post things like "the LLM finally admitted it hallucinated and was lying to me!". Why would that admission be any more meaningful than any of the previous output?

but what these companies are selling is not yet (may never be) good enough to command the price they need, so their trade becomes one of stories and mythical conjuring rather than durable, reliable products that do what they say on the tin. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...

It’s wild that the UK has passed a law requiring Reddit and Wikipedia to age verify users. The law was framed as protecting children from online pornography but seems to have greatly expanded its scope as all such laws do.

This is the “I hope the Lakers win the Super Bowl” of rockstar quotes.

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

(comic) Meaningful Commit Message

Lime Bike Leg. "[One rider] described it as a transfer of wealth from the NHS to a Californian tech company" www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/143 — @jim.londoncentric.media

Really, why bother indexing your codebase, using MCPs or multifile. Just make your whole program one big file! Don't forget to print it to send it with your application. 🤡

My latest SE Radio interview is out: observability in the toolchain, with @bdemers.io. We discussed how information about build times, compiler warnings, test executions, etc., can help to reduce defects, increase productivity, and improve DX. se-radio.net/2025/07/se-r...

The singularity is awesome

“…and I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you pesky kids!”

On real problems, one cannot define away the complexity of the world in the interest of devising an elegant solution. - preface to Software Fundamentals, Parnas.

It's hot outside, which means: - riots/disorder on the streets - flying ant day - "agile is dead" posts

This is your regular reminder that it is not un-Jewish or anti-Israeli to oppose to war in Gaza and call out its crimes against civilians. You are taking a position shared by [checks notes] the former Prime Minister of Israel.

This is brilliant

For anyone interested, I pushed the code from the "47 refactorings in 45 minutes" talk by Duncan McGregor and myself at #KotlinConf to this branch github.com/dmcg/gilded-... (including references and mini-plugins). And here is the live stream video www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ9f...

There are so many things wrong with this letter, but one that sticks out to me is “Apple engineers will say this” as an indirect source. Which Apple engineers? Because why would we think that a software engineer in Sunnyvale knows shit about iPhone production?

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/24/a... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne5o... - video

🧵 1/9 It could have mattered. Nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds deprived of oxygen should have chastened the world to become allies, and not just for a summer. A man being murdered by those who should protect and serve should have been an indelible metaphor.

The scaling fallacy: the assumption that big is just the same as small, only bigger. (Weinberg)

Consultation now open on EHRC guidance on Supreme Court ruling on trans people. It’s a long slog of “is this clear?” so set aside some time. Give your feedback, only open a few weeks. www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EHRC-code-...

Librarian here. Got an email from a patron about our "poor selection" of books on AI, w/ list of new books that we HAD to get so ppl could stay informed about this important subject. Title, author, synopsis. Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all. "Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

saving this one down in the pics folder

<< … most of us are working with an outdated playbook: plays that we have been programmed to run from an older paradigm of leadership - the Industrial Revolution >> - David Marquet, quoted by Marcin Floryan in a conf session #Management #Leadership #WaysOfWorking #Complexity #ComplexityThinking

In a world rightfully struggling to understand what good examples of masculinity looks like, it's a joy to read these tributes to Attenborough on his 99th. Kindness and inspiration is the stuff great men are made of, not all that other shit. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Bingo.

A conversation with Malcolm Matalka about the reasoning behind choosing OCaml and (almost) zero frameworks for the development of Terrateam. We also touch on some related topics, e.g., static vs dynamic typing, the use of monorepos, micro-types, and more. se-radio.net/2025/04/se-r...

Genuinely astonishing. You could almost believe in telepathy.

The UK Supreme Court is going to have a hell of a shock when they discover there are more than two sexes.

Also, this:

Agile Manchester returns next month (14-15th May). Full event programme here: agilemanchester.net/programme-2025 30+ sessions - keynotes, workshops, case studies, fun! 1 and 2 day tickets available - message me for a discount code.

Per leaked memo, Shopify is making AI tools mandatory, whether they help or not. This is exactly like RTO - "we paid for all of this (empty real estate/magic beans) so you better start using it." Then the C-suite can pat themselves on the back for making a wise (real estate/magic beans) investment.

agreed

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.