Tom Yedwab
@tomyedwab.bsky.social
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senior data architect @ Khan Academy, optimist, father of three. That about covers it.
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Eric Bailey
17 days ago
“These "solutions" are fundamentally inequitable. They build a world of digital and physical segregation disguised as progress. And we users are expected to be thankful and grateful.”
#a11y
nimerblogs.blogspot.com/2025/08/cong...
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Congratulations, You've Unlocked 'Expert Mode'! (Whether You Wanted It or Not)
Nimer's blog
https://nimerblogs.blogspot.com/2025/08/congratulations-youve-unlocked-expert.html
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Unpopular opinion of the day: protecting software developers from interruptions in the name of preserving "flow" state is overrated, and potentially harmful for the team as a whole. Deeper dive here:
www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/flow-i...
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"Flow" in software development is overrated
Tackling the myth that
https://www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/flow-is-overrated.html
about 1 month ago
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Birgitta B
about 2 months ago
I tried to make sense of "spec-driven development" by looking at 3 tools: Amazon's Kiro, GitHub's spec-kit, and the Tessl Framework
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
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Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl
Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html
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If anyone from YouTube is following: you could save a ton of compute if we all just filled out a form documenting our current opinions and beliefs. The algorithm could more efficiently match us with confirming and affirming videos. Bonus: The form would never need updating!
2 months ago
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Merriam-Webster
2 months ago
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Andrew Garrett
4 months ago
My Berkeley colleagues & I are saddened by the death of our colleague Robin Lakoff. Her 1972 book Language & Women's Place created the modern field of language & gender. She also wrote articulately, passionately & impactfully about Latin linguistics (Abstract Syntax & Latin Complementation, 1968) 1/
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If you've tried agentic AI coding for larger features and got stuck in a "death spiral", I highly recommend this pattern:
www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/techni...
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How to keep your AI coding agent from going rogue
Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
https://www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/technical-design-spec-pattern.html
7 months ago
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Wrote up some thoughts about the difficulty in using AI agents effectively in legacy codebases and how we might overcome it:
www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/legacy...
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Overcoming the legacy roadblock
Legacy codebases are the bane of AI tools. How can we overcome this?
https://www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/legacy-codebases.html
8 months ago
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Charity Majors
10 months ago
I have a new blog post up: "Corporate 'DEI' Is An Imperfect Vehicle for Deeply Meaningful Ideals"
charity.wtf/2025/02/10/c...
I know a lot of people are feeling incredibly scared and demoralized right now. I get it; I am too. (Who knows if my marriage will still be valid in two years?)
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Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals
I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate…
https://charity.wtf/2025/02/10/corporate-dei-is-an-imperfect-vehicle-for-deeply-meaningful-ideals/
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A write-up of my recent experiment to build and deploy a personal self-hosted task list application using AI tools from scratch in a single week, how it went and what I learned. It is absolutely wild what we can do today with these tools!
www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/the-ei...
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The Eighteen Hour Application: The Project AI Made Possible
How I used AI tools to write a personal application from scratch in 18 hours.
https://www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/the-eighteen-hour-application.html
10 months ago
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Anna Mills
11 months ago
"Having overcome my broader skepticism, I find I’m just shocked at the mental gymnastics militant cynics will execute to avoid admitting that generative AI is doing anything particularly unique or useful."--@mikecaulfield I do see that too sometimes.
mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/critical-r...
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Critical Reasoning with AI: How we know LLMs are applying reasoning patterns, and not just reverse image searching
Writing this because I'm tired of having this argument
https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/critical-reasoning-with-ai-how-we
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I wrote up a review of Cursor and how I use it for software development, which seems to be a hot (and mildly controversial) topic these days:
www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/cursor...
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How I write code using Cursor: A review
A personal review of Cursor, an LLM-powered coding tool.
https://www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/cursor-review.html
about 1 year ago
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