@ivanmorgillo.bsky.social and @sasasekulic.bsky.social's talk was beautiful, a wonderful chat with the audience about the use of AI for developers, friend of for? 💚

Kudos to @benkadel for making the most interesting presentation on admittedly not very interesting topic of regex in #kotlin and #Android #droidconIT2025

I'm somewhat disappointed I couldn't find any of the newer @scalzi.com books at the Dussman bookstore in Berlin, but still I managed to get something new to me - Starter villain! Also, this shelf is very different to how it looked like ten years ago, and only a few authors were in there 20 years ago

I am (self-evidently) very interested in language. And also in technology. From that perspective, the rise of LLMs has created many new things for me to think about. One is: why is it that certain very small clusters of words are *clearly written by an LLM*? What is the quality of that writing?

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

I keep reading about things like detailed up-front Sprint plans, about "failed" Sprints, about people panicking when a Sprint doesn't go according to plan, etc. There is no agility in that thinking, whatsoever. 1/7

So, last Sunday my tuxedo cat, Tom, thought to check if he knows how to fly. He does not. He was in the window of my second floor apartment, got spooked by a curtain and jumped down. 🤦All in all it could've been worse - a broken elbow and a perforated palate. Now for two months of meowing. 😅 #cats

Begging someone to go into the Google offices and just spend every day yelling at random managers "remember when your products worked? Remember when they worked so well your company name became a verb? Have you considered doing that instead of shoveling this AI dogshit all day????"

What do you mean it's not #caturday today?!

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

There are lots of avenues to challenge any study like this, especially when the sample size is so low (n=16). But it is 1000% more transparent in its methodology than ANY marketing claim about increased developer efficiency with AI tools. 1/2

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AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all

Often, when people are baffled by why change can't happen, they don't consider incentive systems. Incentive systems take many forms. Here are a couple: * Individual bonuses. These create a competitive culture within the team, and that typically leads to hoarding skills and information. 1/10

On vibe coding:

“Why GUIs are built at least 2.5 times Or Why I Think Lean Software Development is Wrong” patricia.no/2025/05/30/w...

*Career artisanal programmer eloquently beefing about AI copilots. He probably got fired this week deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

Just saw this interview where the question was “how far do you think we are from having AI operate as a junior engineer 24/7?” I cannot stress enough that I would pay a reasonable fee to 𝘯𝘰𝘵 have an unsupervised junior engineer operating 24/7 in our codebase.

Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written. www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

Physics is learned by solving physics problems. A guy who "learns" physics by talking to chatgpt for hours a day, can spend an entire year never once solving a single problem, but thinking that he is learning physics. A freshman on their very first day, has learned more physics than he has.

Spent too much time on this

"Individual developers report productivity gains using these tools. And at the same time, data shows that the more teams use them, the bigger the negative impact on team outcomes like delivery throughput and release stability. How can both be true?" codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/i...

Let's get ready to ruuuuumbleeeee!!! #caturday

Did AI kill your job? If so, I want to hear about it. The response to my story on the AI jobs crisis has been overwhelming. I heard from so many people impacted by AI that it made me want to collect and organize these stories to better understand the phenomenon. Share yours at: [email protected]

Mish and Tom are happy in back home and don't want me to travel again anytime soon #caturday

Here's a crazy idea: I've decided to give away 300 (300!) signed books on Bluesky today. Who knows if this will work but let's see, shall we? Be in the first 300 to reply to this & you can have one.(Limiting the offer to UK but happy to send overseas if people cover the postage.) More info below...

When the only service that works is your uptime page...

Really liked this @aaronrosspowell.com piece as an antidote to the idea, valorized by a lot of the internet left in the 2010s, that being an asshole is good praxis. That idea failed miserably. It's time to rediscover being decent. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/the-necess...

NEW POST To work effectively with agentic coding assistants, Birgitta Böckeler found she needs to intervene, correct and steer all the time. She describes examples of these interventions indicating the skills we need to correct the tools' missteps martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

Just got a lovely, long email from a former Commodore retailer about my Tramiel piece. About how it helped him finally understand why Tramiel was the way he was in their interactions, over 50yrs ago "I finished reading the last paragraph of your article and just sat quiet for a moment or two."

The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.

"The Impact of Gen AI on Human Learning: a research summary A literature review of the most recent & important peer-reviewed studies " drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/the-impact...

Our new research paper just posted! It asks whether dark patterns (manipulative online interfaces) can thwart users who are trying to make privacy-protective choices on a video streaming site. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... We find that dark patterns are very potent even when users have that goal.

When fascists start blocking Internet services, they do it incompetently. Case in point: Italy. walledculture.org/wh...

It's funny - I added all my follows here, and I started seeing people I haven't seen in literally years on Twitter. Feels like home again... ❤️