"If I had one tip to give to managers, it would be to make it extremely clear to engineers that team efficiency is more important than individual efficiency. Every team member should understand that the primary m..." buff.ly/DPSqNa3 #softwareengineering #management #cl…

"Even if I wanted to reject AI and go back to the days where the Thinker's needs were met by coding, the Builder in me would struggle with the inefficiency." buff.ly/fjoZENd #ai #knowledgework #dukka

"On a quiz that covered concepts they'd used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades. Using AI sped up the task slightly, b..." buff.ly/BNsyuOC #ai #coding #lea…

"The job won't be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make the names they call themselves universally acknowledged slurs."

"Not only does an agent not have the ability to evolve a specification over a multi-week period as it builds out its lower components, it also makes decisions upfront that it later doesn'..." buff.ly/KM6cuj4 #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #vibecoding #ag…

"One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won't understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you've done, but maybe you'll have something. Just a few more dollars f..." www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-s... #ai #vibecoding #slotma…

"If you were telling a friend in a rush why you were ex­cited to write this down, what would you say? Just say that! Just… start with the in­ter­est­ing part first." buff.ly/YkWsMOv #priority #writing #design

"I don't 'break down the work to determine how long it will take'. My management chain already knows how long they want it to take. My job is to figure out the set of software approaches that match that estimate. Som..." buff.ly/JD2o2vy #softwareengineering #scope #pla…

"Over the past few years, I've become more frustrated with the terms 'Unit' and 'Integration' because I have to explain what 'Unit' and 'Integration' mean before I can use them." buff.ly/WxDGtwQ #automatedtesting #unit #vs #integration #naming #classic

"Instead I get a maze, complex enough that when something goes wrong, I'm at fault for a tooltip I didn't hover over, a blog post I didn't read, a submenu I didn't find. Maybe that's by design. Maybe it's neglect. I don't know." buff.ly/t1XcOgm #parenting #ux

"If you want to win the war for attention, don't try to say 'no' to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say 'yes' to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying l..." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... #attention #happiness #…

"People have been trained to be abused by software and by hardware, to ignore their needs, to accept any change as inevitable." buff.ly/FWbLSEs #ux #enshittification

"How do I feel, about all the code I wrote that was ingested by LLMs? I feel great to be part of that, because I see this as a continuation of what I tried to do all my life: democratizing code, systems, knowledge." buff.ly/2nktAef #ai #foss

"The problem isn't that engineers can't write code or use AI to do so. It's that we're so good at writing it that we forget to ask whether we should." buff.ly/3l13z8h #ai #softwareengineering #productivity #buildtherightthing

"Almost anyone can prompt an LLM to generate a thousand-line patch and submit it for code review. That's no longer valuable." buff.ly/UmaMtPl #ai #softwareengineering #productivity

"There is abundant evidence that over the last 20 years, American firms have shifted from an innovation mindset to one that focuses more on rent seeking." buff.ly/nBWI4EY #innovation #vs #rentseeking #classic

"Rewrite your multiple-paragraph email until your message can be said in just a few sentences. In time you will not know any better." buff.ly/bSo22nO #writing #leadingpeople #classic

"'Open your eyes is all that is needed. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes, hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. The..." buff.ly/mH7Yem3 #agile #product #zen #cl…

"Instead of designing and using tools to build a society, our society changes to adapt to the demands of our tools."

"That's how business works when regulation hasn't caught up to structural innovation. Nvidia paid $6.9B for technology and $13.1B to solve everything else using a deal structure that traditional antitrust can't touch." buff.ly/sNeLCt7 #antitrust #capitalism

"We have a process to help us build in quality that is based on feedback and inviting human judgement, but if the system incentives constrain our ability to get the feedback, that also means..." buff.ly/w9Va1v2 #softwareengineering #pullrequests #vs #mobprogramming #cl…

"If you don't have a slightly cynical explanation for why large tech companies sometimes make inefficient decisions - such as this one - you risk adopting an overly cynical one." buff.ly/WQlub0A #softwareengineering #systemsthinking #balance

"Even the C-suite has noticed the correlation of major outages and incidents proceeding grand claims about how much of that company's code is 'AI'-generated." buff.ly/PkWmraF #ai #quality

"I've never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, 'Don't try to fly too high,' or whether it might also be thought of as 'Forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on ..." daringfireball.net/2025/12/do_a... #agency #quality #k…

"It's also a real problem for higher education. Colleges and universities have lost that connection they've had with a large swath of the American people based on affordability."

"Nine shortcuts take longer and are less productive than simply doing the work the right way the first time." buff.ly/rtNLlR3 #waste #efficiency

"I very much hope we'll get the two decades that horses did." buff.ly/av7YNFP #ai #replacement

"We don't need to do it this quarter just because some startup has to do an earnings call. We will do it if it helps us." buff.ly/4QNLUx6 #ai #pragma

"Overnight, most engineers got rebranded as 'not AI talent.' And then came the final insult: everyone was forced to use Microsoft's AI tools whether they worked or not." buff.ly/2CJhNOy #ai #microsoft #copilot #nope

"But it's important not to take this too far: skepticism shouldn't become obstructionism. With AI, it's not 'no forever' but 'not until it can be done right'." buff.ly/h6jWf2t #ai #softwareengineering #staff #longgame

"I can't think of a single instance where an unruly ego solved anything I've worked on." buff.ly/6gIuBb9 #knowledgework #ego #empathy #humility

"The financial incentives for building flawed software, the IT industry's addiction to failure porn, and the lack of accountability for foolish management decisions are deeply entrenched in the IT community." ift.tt/caI7Jfq #software #projectmanagement

"That's where the fear comes in. It leads to Manhattan Project rationale. Someone will make it, so it should be them, because they can trust them." buff.ly/Zr3BV4p #ai #humanity

"The issue is not a lot of expensive people attending a meeting; the issue is whether the meeting is structured to reach the outcome efficiently." buff.ly/9KYuJc5 #software #productmanagement #meetings

"The brain learns best when it's surprised — when it detects a mismatch between an expectation and a result. If you rely on a calculator for 5 x 10 and a typo gives you '500,' your brain feels no error because it never made a pre..." buff.ly/CDagJPm #knowledgework #lea…

"And don't forget that it was Harrison who stopped the band from remaking Now and Then, on the basis that – in a McCartney retelling from before the song was eventually released – it was 'fucking rubbish'."

"If your environment has λ = 3 and you're trying to do θ = 90 work, you're going to have a bad time." justoffbyone.com/posts/math-o... #knowledgework #attention

"In 2000 a coworker took me aside and showed me his brand-new copy of IntelliJ IDE. 'It's over for us,' he said, 'this thing makes it so programmers aren't strictly necessary, like one person can oper..." bit.ly/4pOe6nB #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #i…

"Calling attention to an idea that there's a psuedo-human spying on you is bad. Alexa depends on the opposite impression, that it's just a computer. I think AI's should give up the pretense that they're human, and th..." buff.ly/hhji97d #ai #privacy #humanity #uncannyv…

"Cooldowns enforce positive behavior from supply chain security vendors: vendors are still incentivized to discover and report attacks quickly, but are not as incentivized to emit volumes of blogspam about 'c..." buff.ly/87GxNgK #npm #supplychainattack #dependencymanag…

"Expressing what we need in terms relevant to people who control the resources is not lying. It's leadership." buff.ly/zPAn63K #managing #up #roi

"Assertions are not the cause of an invariant violation, they are a witness of an invariant violation. The component has already failed catastrophically, it just hasn't crashed yet." buff.ly/e5yCH3z #softwareengineering #failure

"A staggering amount of the accounts Republicans have been relying on for viral feedback are either apolitical con artists milking their hatred for clicks or pitiful anonymous fascists LARPing America's culture war because they can't wage one at home."

"it's either written (and discarded) or not written at all. ✅" buff.ly/oPEB0xW #acid #database #technicallythetruth

"in the early days of literacy, people reading silently to themselves might have seemed demented. Even in the 19th century, the novel was considered a dangerous medium, one that would trap people in the thrall of isolation and fantasy."

"Organizers hope that other adults will see how wonderful it is to be accepted and accepting, to sing Bon Jovi badly in an abandoned church building or hear a talk about quantum physics in a local Y with other like-minded and familiar people."

"The Takeaway: Use slash commands as simple, personal shortcuts, not as a replacement for building a more intuitive and better-tooled agent." buff.ly/q6SzYkk #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience

"It might be useful if the disciplines of design and user research really owned the issue of Discoveryitis." buff.ly/i0a8DwZ #ux #design #productmanagement #smaller #productivity

"This signals two dangerous messages: 'I don't trust you to handle the important stuff.', and 'The only path to influence is through heroics.'" bobtomlin-70659.medium.com/why-great-en... #softwareengineering #management #leadership

"I don't know how else to say it. Many people keep talking about the importance of a decentralized web, and then continue putting their site behind Cloudflare." buff.ly/H8rCQbY #cloudflare #decentralized