In two weeks, we are happy to have Christoph Wille as a speaker at our next event! He is talking about Testcontainers and how to use them correctly in integration tests. Thanks to LEAN-CODERS & @uter.bsky.social for hosting us this time! Registration link: dotnetdevs.at/events/2025-... #dotnet

How is AI changing software development? Martin Fowler (@martinfowler.com) says AI is the biggest shift in the field since high-level languages appeared (ones like Fortran or C, offering a new abstraction level to code at, versus Assembly): Full epsiode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQmI... (cont'd)

I didn't even mention beans once

My notes on Google's new Antigravity IDE - at first glance it looks like yet another VS Code fork but there are some interesting new ideas in there simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/...

☕️ Caffeinated and still in action! After a great coffee break, we’re diving into the next round of sessions with Christoph Wille, Amaury Levé, @codewithanjuli.bsky.social, and Ayesha Kaleem. #UCP25

Back to the action! We’re powering through more cutting-edge dev sessions with our amazing speakers: Chris Woodruff, Leo Visser, Barbara Forbes, and Christoph Wille. Expect sharp insights, actionable techniques, and plenty of aha moments. The ultimate boost for your dev brain. 🚀

You want to base your decision to attend "Extensibility in .NET Applications with #WebAssembly" and/or "#Testcontainers - Integration Testing Done Right" at prague.updateconf.net on more than the session descriptions? Go check out github.com/christophwil... for slides & demos #UCP25 #dotnet

Chris Lattner is one of the most influential engineers of the past two decades. He created LLVM, Swift, contributed to TensorFlow, and created the Mojo language. What was the story about creating Swift - and why did he face resistance inside Apple when wanting to replace Objective C? (cont'd)

The promise of AI chat assistants: they solve 90% of the problems users have (by looking up the docs and telling them) My reality: need to spend 10 minutes trying to get to a human, to solve an issue I need customer support to look into Around minute 8 I sign up to a competitor

New on the blog: Think for Yourself "You're about to commit a chunk of LLM-generated code into your product's codebase. Before you do, however, pause to consider and act on these questions." kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...

If I ever become Ruler of the World, I'll shut down AWS us-east-1 every couple of years just to see who is dependent on it.

The talk recording from @lauratacho.com at Cloud Native Days Austria is available, highly recommended to watch (AI minus BS) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ1F...

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability. www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

However, companies will start hiring again simply because work needs to get done, and they can't get that work done cost-effectively with vibe coding and no people. They'll have to pay through the nose for those programmers, but that's just poetic justice. It's fine by me. 7/7

This learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer... is a prime example of unhelpful copy paste of AI slop. AI rephrasing my question and the "support guy" not giving a shit. #dotnet #Microsoft #Azure

Business is rapidly achieving peak bullshit. decision.substack.com/p/have-you-b...

How many folks have actually experienced a CEO or manager pressuring them to use AI in a way that's dumb or out of touch?

Use Hugging Face Inference Providers with GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code huggingface.co/docs/inferen...

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is now available for download. Check out the announcement and try it out for yourself! devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

If you haven't yet, make sure to watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHHl...

Cory Doctorow at CF25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-...

Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

Took some time today to catch up with Johann Rehberger's Month of AI Bugs and wow... 15 examples so far of major prompt injection vulnerabilities in products including ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Amp, Devin, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and Google Jules simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/...

THAT www.techradar.com/computing/wi... will actually even make me consider leaving Windows behind.

People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just lying. Or both. 1/

We recently ran an experiment to explore how far GenAI can currently be pushed toward autonomously developing high-quality, up-to-date software without human intervention, and gather observations about where it breaks down. martinfowler.com/articles/pus...

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

A #csharp 14.0 feature to expect in the next #ILSpy preview for #dotnet 10 is extension members (not final, see github.com/icsharpcode/...)

Pretty decent pelicans from the new GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air models. Both models are MIT licensed, released by Chinese AI lab Z.ai this morning simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/...

This preview is actually the precursor to our discussions on overload resolutions in Vienna at our dev days github.com/icsharpcode/...

Aspire is growing up. Better local dev workflows. Testing you can see. Polyglot by default. A clearer path to deployment. We just published the roadmap—come take a look: 👉 github.com/dotnet/aspir... #aspire #dotnet

Two significant new model releases from Alibaba Qwen in the past two days: yesterday Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, today Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct - both Apache 2 licensed, both very impressive My notes and SVG pelicans: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/... and simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/...

Blogged: C# 14 extension members; AKA extension everything - Exploring the .NET 10 preview andrewlock.net/exploring-do... In this post I look at the C#14 extension members feature. I show how to convert extension methods to the new syntax and how to add new types of extension #dotnet #csharp

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds

🚀 Save the Date: Agile Meets Architecture 2026 Agility meets modern software architecture – let’s shape the future together! 🗓 March 10–11, 2026 📍 KulturBrauerei, Berlin 📝 The Call for Papers opens in August! 👉 Stay tuned for program updates: www.agile-meets-architecture.com/2026/home

This summer, EPFL and ETH Zurich will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence. More: bit.ly/451vBrR

OpenID for Verifiable Presentations 1.0 is now final! This is the core presentation protocol used with the Digital Credentials API. openid.net/specs/openid... #dc #oid4vp #vdc #mdl #vc #sdjwt #eudiw #dcapi #digitalcredentials

NEW POST Even with LLMs, @birgitta410.bsky.social still cares about the code: “LLMs are NOT compilers, interpreters, transpilers or assemblers of natural language, they are inferrers. martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

"Fundamental" truths about software: - Code is liability - The more code you have, the more bugs you tend to have - The more complex a system, the more important architecture becomes - Writing maintainable code is a lot more effort than just getting it to work

A new update to the #SQLServer Execution Plan Reference! * Added all the different names of the Result and Language Element operators to the list of all operators. * Added a change log at the end of each page. * Various other changes sqlserverfast.com/epr/change-l...

🧵 Technical leadership in open source isn't about control — it's about stewardship. In OSS, you don’t manage people. You manage trust.

I propose to replace CEOs with LLMs trained on manager magazines. Because 95% of managers (badly) parrot stuff they read in rags anyways, and it would save TONS of money to remove C-level execs. (oh, btw, read The Unaccountability Machine on managerialism)

FINAL § In complex environments, the characteristics of Expert Generalists lead them to be particularly valuable in driving tasks to completion. Unmesh, Gitanjali, and I thus complete our article by summarizing the value of this skill. martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

Was watching Cannonball Run the umpteenth time yesterday - yep, #Copilot jokes were funnier back in the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggma...

What LLMs Know About Their Users Simon Willison talks about ChatGPT's new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM -- and the company -- knows about its users. It's a big quote, but I want you to read it all. Here's a prompt you can use to give you a solid idea…

Join me on 8th of July for my talk "Database Updates - Not As Easy As You Think" in Vienna at @dotnetdevs.at - sign up link www.meetup.com/dotnet-austr... (or remote www.meetup.com/dotnet-austr...) #dotnet #ef #sql

I wrote a guest post on The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/two-years-... rounding up 2 years of using AI coding assistants - how they evolved; ways of working; impact I see on speed, quality and team flow; and some thoughts on the future

NEW POST Gen AI for software development is the biggest jump up in abstraction since assembler to HLLs, but also a jump sideways. martinfowler.com/articles/202...

AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc

We'll soon reach escape velocity for bullshit work. substack.jurgenappelo.com/p/how-ai-wil...