Is anyone conducting research into software engineering professionals who are being pressured into using LLMs?

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

Lots of posts by chefs talking about their sophisticated automated Rube Goldberg kitchens, not so many about what they’ve been cooking.

Elsker bug'en i mobilvisningen i fotballreferatene på nrk.no som gir oss klassikere som ÅL, RISPARK, AUSE, PILLERBYTTE, og ULT og ØDT KORT.

reading literally any tech news piece in the last two years

this is what i mean when i say ai is a rhetorical technology. functionally this is a tool for *justifying deportation*, not a tool for assessing age. when someone is pitching an ai product, don't ask them what it's supposed to do. ask yourself what it's supposed to justify

Vi KAN forby pervobrillene! Forbrukerrådet peker ut en mulighet til å anvende sunn fornuft. La oss. www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/forb...

Productivity in the Age of Clowns, a scene. Boss: What did you experiment with today? Employee: I put on a funny hat. Boss: Great! And how much more productive did that make you? Employee: ... Boss: ...

Contemplating adding "in the Age of Clowns" as a suffix to any talk title I come up with.

Hvem kunne sett for seg at Tangen opererer med rene rumpetall for produktivitetsgevinsten ved bruk av AI?

Sikkerhetsopplæring på jobb: Svindlere skaper ofte en opplevelse av at ting haster for å få deg til å glemme å stille kritiske spørsmål. KI-misjonærer: Hvis ikke dere tar i bruk KI NÅ KOMMER DERE TIL Å BLI UTKONKURRERT!!!11!!1!! Jobben: Å hei, vi må forte oss her, veldig viktig!

Banning children from social media?

Seems like we've moved from bicycle of the mind to training wheels of the mind.

Hilarious side-note: "the blind mole approach" would probably be a more appropriate name, but I think I was influenced by "the colour-blind hedgehog workshop of Sienna" from Blackadder.

I have an unarticulated proto-thought in my head that there is a systems perspective missing with respect to AI. It is missing in general, and I didn't see at #DDDEU where I perhaps has hoped to see it expressed.

everything said by anthropic should be treated as a marketing campaign unless proven otherwise

“You who read me — are you certain you understand my language?” — Borges

Thinking of John Gray's "The Soul of the Marionette".

Thanks for having me #DDDEU, and congratulations on a great event for the 10th anniversary! It was very nice to meet old and new friends!

Man overboard!

So has Russell Ackhoff superseded George Box as the patron saint of the DDD community?

Two days ago @chrissimon.au and myself gave a talk about Residuality at @dddeu.bsky.social We are working on a write up about the experience, which we hope to start publishing soon. Do you have questions or comments? For now a link to the slides www.roundcrisis.com/2026/05/22/r...

The great misunderstanding about the infinite monkey theorem is to think that we’d be able to pick out the works of Shakespeare.

Protip: at a software conference, don’t ask if there any old people in the audience, that’s rude. Instead ask if anyone remembers CORBA.

People seem to think that the only attitudes you could have towards AI is enthusiasm or fear, and leave out very viable options like shrugging and disgust.

“Difficulty is always a school, though learning is optional.” — Rebecca Solnit

"AI native" is the new term that reduces the semantic value of any sentence which contains it

"We and our 217 partnering parasites would like to suck your blood. Set your choices | Accept all."

Great expectations. einarwh.no/html/expect/

I love categories: "The word 'allotment' has nine meanings in different contexts, such as agriculture, nautical, economics, law, and obsolete."

What if... For all the talk of "unlocks," the truth is you haven't unlocked much. What if... Instead of tweeting incessantly about AI models, you re-invested that time in adding customer value. What if... The tools have changed, but the game really hasn't. What if?

It only took me 10 years to get Martin Fowler to come to DDD Europe, but totally worth it. Here pictured on stage with Eric Evans and Gien Verschatse

“If we’re not squirrels and we’re not starlings, what are we? We are architects.” — Barry O’Reilly #DDDEU @technologytulip.bsky.social

Walking around at #DDDEU in a post-talk daze is pretty nice.

@felienne.bsky.social closing keynote at @dddeu.bsky.social blew me away. First time ever I witnessed a minutes long standing ovation after a talk at a tech conference. She painfully exposed what is wrong in the software industry through her personal story. #dddeu

Very excited about this #DDDEU keynote by @felienne.bsky.social!

Workshop rooms at #DDDEU, one birdy bird (the nightingale) and three decidedly non-birdy.

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

Were I the wind, I’d blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.

The @ffconf.org CFP is open - if you're UK based (or near UK) especially, FFConf wants to hear your voice. I updated the "Most recent ideas" with more of my wishlist, and added an extra point to our speaker promise: we won't AI-ify your photos. ffconf.org/articles/cfp/

Starting the journey to Antwerp and DDD Europe.

I'm tired of all the Bond villains. Where the fuck is James Bond?

DUE TO MASSIVE TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS; NO WEB SITES WORK ANY MORE PLEASE RT

Tenketank-folk: "vi vil bare ha streite skeive".

Whenever I hear Rory Sutherland speak nowadays it sounds like he's describing our economics more broadly.

Great stuff by Brussels airlines. Can't use their app without registering for a travel ID, can't register for a travel ID because of "a technical error".

AI skeptic's thought for the day: They call it "Recursive Self-Improvement". I call it "eating their own slop", which, as we now know *from experience*, leads to model collapse.

Update: the last 2 days have been *amazing*, and the support folks have shown me is genuinely moving. I had another little cry. But (oh, here he goes), there are still some places left on the upcoming workshops, and even without the discount that ended last night, they're worth every penny! (1/2)