Rob Sutter
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Building software engineering teams and coaching them to peak performance.
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Lord help me I’m doing A Thing. A chapter a (work) day as I work through a few books on engineering management. Come follow along!
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Engineering Management Book Club
Daily reviews of software engineering management books
https://robsutter.dev/posts/leadership/book-club/
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Costa Samaras
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Hey losers leave trans folks alone
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rmoff 🏃♂️🫖🥓
3 days ago
Ouch.
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The Library of Alexandria D'Addario
4 days ago
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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Mitch Dyer
about 2 months ago
If only everyone could have predicted this
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EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes
A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.
https://www.thegamer.com/ea-generative-ai-game-development-prompt-chatbot-bad-mistakes-hallucinations/
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Epi_lady (Amy)
about 2 months ago
For Gen X part of why watching the unapproved & unpermitted destruction of the
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Jon Bois
about 2 months ago
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
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Anil Dash
2 months ago
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...
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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
https://anildash.com/2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/
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Anil Dash
2 months ago
More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
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Jenniferplusplus
2 months ago
The appropriate historical analogy is radium, not the web. In this TED talk, I will
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The Oatmeal
2 months ago
Let’s talk about AI art.
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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Oliver Gould
3 months ago
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Opinion | What I Learned From My Days in Russia: Silicon Valley Needs to Start Speaking Out About Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/opinion/trump-silicon-valley-state-meda-putin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qk8.AX69.0NzrTFe_Er7m&smid=url-share
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Merriam-Webster
3 months ago
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Comfortably Numb
3 months ago
Oh this is good
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Robin Berjon
3 months ago
If you think this is US-only, it's not. If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't. If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is. If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can. If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.
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Anthony Moser
3 months ago
The idea that we have to "encourage responsible AI usage" is a core part of the inevitability narrative driving the institutional adoption that makes people think it's worth trying out. it contributes to the very problem it supposedly tries to solve. we can't let it go unchallenged.
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Generate code equal to the existing amount of code, make it unreachable, merge. Metric hit.
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4 months ago
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Emily M. Bender
4 months ago
Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
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Daniel Carlson
4 months ago
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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David Slack
4 months ago
It is truly shocking to discover how many people just don’t want to use their brains and can’t understand why anyone else would want to use their brain either.
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Dare Obasanjo
4 months ago
Coinbase’s CEO asking people to use AI by Saturday then firing people who didn’t is fascinating because I don’t remember such threats to get tech workers to use Slack, Jira, Visual Studio Code, Google Docs, smartphones or really any valuable productivity tool. Makes you wonder…
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drewtoothpaste
4 months ago
age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
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Dare Obasanjo
4 months ago
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
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MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/?itm_source=parsely-api
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Camille Fournier
4 months ago
Interesting question raised in a q&a today: what do we do about the fact that engineers don't feel like they're learning anything on the job except how to use AI now because that's all anyone in leadership is focused on
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
5 months ago
Because LLMs haven't even pulled physics really into plain language (as the video explains), they've merely pulled *pretend* physics into plain language (just like non-expert plain language history is mostly pretend history). The 'tool' is a toy to play at physics like a child plays at house. /end
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cailin
5 months ago
I like that Strava refers to you as an Athlete. I ate a sleeve of Oreos at 11 pm last night
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Kelsey Hightower
7 months ago
Work on your critical thinking skills and learn as much as you can. Train your own model.
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Sara 🍉💌 McHenry
8 months ago
Re LLMs writing term papers: the other day I saw someone say that using LLMs to write is like bringing a forklift to the gym. It's not that the weights need to go up; it's that you need to do the lifting. The doing of the work is the result, not the paper being done or the weights having moved.
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Randall Munroe
8 months ago
PhD Timeline
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Hetan Shah
8 months ago
In which
@jacobsilverman.com
develops the concept of ‘hostile architecture’ to encompass all that is going wrong with the internet including enshittification, slop, hyper-commercialisation and people screaming into your void
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Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
The last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence
https://on.ft.com/3S0YA8I
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Charity Majors
9 months ago
"The corollary to Conway's Law is, you can actually change the architecture of a company just by changing how people talk to each other." 🤔🤯🥂
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You!
9 months ago
I mean… Yeah. Yeah they do. For entirely known and warned-about reasons. Yes.
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AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-models-miss-disease-black-female-patients
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Holly Berkley Fletcher
9 months ago
Thoughts on Signal gate, as someone who spent 19 yrs at CIA. I'm thinking of all the times I accidentally brought my phone into the office and had to not only immediately walk it across the massive parking lot to my car, but report myself to security. Do that too many times=real repercussions
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Kelsey Hightower
9 months ago
Too many people accept opinion as fact, or deem anyone capable of stringing together a complete sentence to be intelligent, which is why LLMs seem like a suitable replacement for the people around them.
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Daniel Lemire
9 months ago
A pleasure working with the Cloudflare folks... making the Web faster and safer on step at a time. Cloudflare is this great company which safeguards approximately 20% of all web traffic.
blog.cloudflare.com/improving-we...
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💀 buriticá 💀
9 months ago
vibe coding is like being convinced you can open a fine dining restaurant after buying a microwave and a subscription to Blue Apron
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Kelsey Hightower
10 months ago
I've chosen to avoid this wave of AI altogether. I'm not interested in becoming one with the machine. If they are willing to spend time and money training artificial intelligence, why wouldn't I do the same for the real thing.
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Amsterdam devs - I'll be speaking at this event, talking about how we build Workers KV on Workers. Stop by, learn a little, and say hi!
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11 months ago
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☕️ AMY CHU #donutkiller
11 months ago
Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models
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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null
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Scoiattolo
11 months ago
I’m a highly regarded Senior Technical Project Manager who specializes in building distributed research networks for health outcomes and drug safety studies. My current job is entirely federally funded. If you’re in industry (especially in EMEA) and could use that skill set, let’s talk!
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Kumail Nanjiani
11 months ago
De-Nazify shit.
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Jorts (and Jean)
11 months ago
Imagine being this guy whining about privacy. Lol. Lmao
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Thomas Gauvin
11 months ago
We just raised the Workers KV namespace limits for all Cloudflare accounts, from 200 to 1000 Folks had been running into those limits, especially teams building multi-tenant applications who split KV data by tenant. That’s now a thing of the past!
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Workers KV namespace limits increased to 1000
https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog-next/2025-01-27-kv-increased-namespaces-limits/
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Rich Burroughs
11 months ago
“We were all stuck selling products that broke only after a few years. Now, we’re finally innovating by cutting to the chase and selling products that are already broken.”
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Marcus Hutchins
11 months ago
The entire tech industry right now
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kckckc | free link
11 months ago
Jamie Dimon is no leftist — he just understands that hiring top talent means casting the widest possible net
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Jamie Dimon is doubling down on JPMorgan's DEI work as a conservative group targets Wall Street: 'Bring them on'
Jamie Dimon reaffirmed JPMorgan's DEI commitments after pressure from an activist shareholder.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jamie-dimon-doubles-down-jpmorgan-diversity-efforts-dei-shareholder-activists-2025-1
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If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
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“You are a sprinter!” Hell yeah I am! Actual AC was 395. Good improvement since getting off the couch but now it’s time to crank that MAP and FTP.
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Hey network - do I know anybody working in Alzheimer's, Dementia, or Parkinson's research? If so, could you DM me? I want to explore the current role of technology in research across detection, treatment, and quality of life aspects.
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