Here is my talk from NDC expressing all of my current thoughts on LLMs as software engineers. It also explains the prime minister of Australia was not a meat pie and why that's important for the maintainability of our software in the coming years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wQd...

Congrats to all the Arsenal fans. They deserved this one.

There is nothing more humbling than reading peer review feedback.

Iirc this was about 50KM into the ride which is why I look very over it

I'm not going to #PyConUS this year. The only way I could go was to tack it onto an existing 2-week trip and I really don't want to spend 3 weeks away from home. I'll miss everyone.

Good start to my 40’s setting several PBs on the MTB 🚲 . Fastest 40k & 50k times. Beat my course time on a 67km race by 20 mins. Still plenty of space for improvement next year if I find the time to train properly.

I want to work at Anthropic for 1 day so I can tell Claude to stop doing inline imports in Python.

Rooftop pool at the W Sydney is pretty 🪼

@willvelida.com great talk 👍 would be good to catch up tomorrow

I'm doing a talk on LLMs being bad software engineers tomorrow. In particular I'll be going on a rant about why SWE-Bench results are nonsense. The left is the actual patch, the right is one "passing" solution I saw. A lot of the patches look like this. The tests pass, but the code is garbage.

Sunrises are great but I still don’t think it justifies getting up this early. Also kudos to the surfers out there <6am. Aka “breakfast time” 🦈

Started the day in the ocean for 3 hours with the kids. Surfing, swimming and boogie boarding

A study written by Melbourne Uni coming out this week at MSR'26 shows that AI-co-authored PRs received less feedback than human-authored in OSS repos and 80% were merged without any formal review. arxiv.org/pdf/2601.13754

Snakes and ladders

Absolutely stellar blog post from @sethmlarson.dev and @miketheman.com about the recent LiteLLM supply chain attack, and what you can do to protect your projects! Everyone should read this post (and sponsor their _very important_ work!) blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-0...

Taking a couple of days off to learn paragliding

🚨litellm was compromised via a supply chain vulnerability. Package releases included a credential stealing script. 1.82.8 - includes a malicious .pth file (litellm_init.pth) 1.82.7 - includes a malicious payload in proxy_server.py github.com/BerriAI/lite...

Back in Seattle for the week. Just in time for sunset

George is getting upset

AI is bad at detecting if something is AI generated. Please stop using it for that.

Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️

Australia Grand Prix: All the cars are lapping 2-3 seconds slower than in practice last year 🐌 development is going to be very rapid this season

🔔 🔔 🔔 Maxed out all 64 cores. We’re gonna need a bigger boat

Happy ending to the story. It was an 18th birthday present. Owner got hit by a big wave and the watch got ripped off their hand. They had given up on it ever being found. A very appreciative mum picked it up

Testament to the Apple Watch. Someone found one in the ocean, returned it to the lifeguards, it had been there for a week. I cleaned it up, charged it, got the medical ID off it and the owner will pick it up today!

Claude loves a sleep statement to “fix” a bug.

I won’t be speaking at PyCon US this year. Submitted 1 talk and 1 poster (with the same theme) and they were both unsuccessful

I am so deep in the AI this week I had AI write a feature and raise a pull request but another AI did a code review so I told my AI to respond to that AI and they had a disagreement so I’m just watching, 🍿 , and paying for tokens. What is engineering in 2026.

Ok, hear me out. They play 45 minutes. No stoppage. No ads. Then you get 30 mins break, ads, have dinner whatever. Dancing. Then another 45 minutes. That would be an amazing sport to watch.

Want to work in the Microsoft rust compiler? Be the Microsoft person in the rust community? In Prague or can be in Prague? (And have me as your security pm. Which shouldn’t put you off.)

Well I guess this is the start of the “find out” phase www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

Turns out the sorts of people who put their ClawdBot on the Internet are also the sorts of people who put their unsecured Crypto frontends online too. Max from Falkenstein, DE— secure your stuff better 🤦🏻‍♂️

Grabbed this nugget of slop from LinkedIn because I can’t stop laughing. Remember when ol’ “Meat Pies” was PM? Things have gone downhill since we let the Prawns run the country

Doesn’t get more PNW than a restaurant like this

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If you’re staying in a hotel in the US and your room thermostat is in Celsius and you’re wondering “who did this”. Yeah 🙋🏻‍♂️

Also, good evening Portland (I think, I was trying to guess with the bridges)

There used to be a photo of the President above the escalator as you arrive at TBIT in LAX. Since I’ve been flying to LAX for 20+ years, I’ve seen GW up there, Obama, Trump, then Biden. They took it down last year

The problem with being a plane nerd is whilst the other passengers are like “big plane goes brrrr” I’m thinking oh f’ck VH-OQC is the one where a few weeks ago “shortly before landing, a piece of the left wing tore off”. Lucky I believe in fate 🤷🏻‍♂️

Beach is closed but still keeping an eye out with the kids

Couldn’t believe my favourite band (The head and the heart) were playing only an hour from me in Australia. Went to see them as an early birthday present, they were doing vocal warmups outside and said hello to meet me. Best birthday present! The nicest people ♥️ @headandtheheart.bsky.social

New year, new website, new me! Ok, well the last part hasn’t happened yet. New font face at least. Blog posts look awesome on mobile tonybaloney.github.io

Got my kids hooked on the Broken Sword series starting with 5. They’ve completed 1 and now about to finish 2. I don’t know how to break the news about 3 and 4

Having fun making temperature readouts for my friends microbrewery from old arduino boards and some terrible soldering. Used CAT6 to breakout from the onewire bus 🚎

🏏 I think England at least deserve an applause for staying sober long enough to win 1 test. #ashes

Wrapped up the first day back at work with a quick paddle

Deleted my Twitter/X account. Should have done it a while ago. If I pop up again it'll be someone pretending to be me.

Finally did the Bondi - Coogee walk (and back). Entertaining to watch the tourists walk between two “do no swim here” signs and throw themselves in a rip 🤦🏻‍♂️ I could not patrol this beach SMH

When I first joined Bluesky, for some reason the algorithm wanted to show me bears (not the kind in the woods). So my “discover” page was a big nope. Finally I’ve got it to show me what I want! — Civil infrastructure — No more hairy dudes thank you. More trains, railways, and tunnels 👍