"This means the same system is complicated or complex depending on what (or whom) you know." jessitron.com/2023/10/26/s... #software #systems #cynefin #classic

"A good harness should not necessarily aim to fully eliminate human input, but to direct it to where our input is most important." martinfowler.com/articles/har... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #harness #humanity

"Get it wrong the first time. Then make it better." seths.blog/2023/10/gett... #evolution #design #agility #classic

"The people perpetuating this are terrible people, but the justice is that this is how they feel inside all the time themselves." geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll... #ai #hype

"Encouraging a commitment to life-long learning and development and a true respect for the difficulties inherent in each position, in my view, will only create healthier workplaces." stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/13/h... #learning #knowledgework #management #classic

"Nevertheless, outsourcing the entire writing process to LLMs may deprive us of the opportunity to reflect on our field and engage in the creative, essential task of shaping research findings into a compelling narrat..." www.nature.com/articles/s44... #ai #writing #thinking #forklift…

"28. To notice that every era has its printing press, and every era has people who burn the books." seths.blog/2026/07/the-... #progress

"The leap from 'I built a thing' to 'therefore anyone can build a thing' misses the entire point of why you hire knowledgeable, experienced people in the first place." www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/c... #ai #knowledgework #leading #humility #humanity

"With generative AI, the work of building efficient, scalable systems has not been done." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #ai #engineering #scale

"Large software projects have never been limited only by how quickly an individual can produce code. They are limited by how well people can coordinate their understanding of the ..." lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/th... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #knowledgework #productivity

"If your kitchen caught fire 3 or 4 times every time you were cooking I'm guessing you wouldn't handle it by doing triage to guess which fires to put out and which ones were just minor annoyances that could be ignored ..." medium.com/@mcarlson_sb... #softwareengineering #bugs #classic

"Yes, you can have better and faster and cheaper, it just takes discipline." dannorth.net/2023/09/02/t... #agile #software #engineering #classic

"It is no different from snatching a physical copy of a book or magazine out of a reader's hands in order to badger them for something other than the attention they were already granting your work, except that the physical act of snatching ..." buff.ly/fA6JO42 #ux #violence

What Is a Dickover?

dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g.…

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"Seems reasonable and quite a small change really, in light of the total world revolution across every swathe of human productivity." buff.ly/7jSvtqX #ai #productivity #humanity

"I don't think they think they are writing software, I think [they think] they're midwifing a deity here." buff.ly/NvOQaIq #ai #psychosis #grandeur #frankenstein #humanity

Girsta AI Media | Artificial Intelligence News on Instagram: "During an episode of the All-In Podcast, venture capitalist Bill Gurley shared his new “Dr. Frankenstein theory” regarding the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. Gurley claimed that after researching the company extensively, he believes its leaders are actively trying to build a species superior to humans. Gurley pointed to an essay by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, suggesting the company envisions an AI-run capitalist economy that distributes resources to humans. Podcast co-host Jason Calacanis responded by accusing the executives of having extreme delusions of grandeur and narcissism. Calacanis argued that these tech leaders genuinely believe they possess the power to create a digital deity. Are AI leaders losing touch with reality? Source: YouTube / Digg / Apple Podcasts @Girsta AI news that respects your time."

7,203 likes, 578 comments - girsta on May 31, 2026: "During an episode of the All-In Podcast, venture capitalist Bill Gurley shared his new “Dr. Frankenstein theory” regarding the artificial…

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"One of the defining traits of strong engineering leadership in the A.I. era will be the ability to distinguish polished output from real judgment." buff.ly/EHlH8Hj #ai #knowledgework #slop

A.I. Should Elevate Your Thinking, Not Replace It - Blog - Koshy John

Read about the hidden divide between self-inflicted irrelevance and real engineering leverage.

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"Small teams have coherence for free; the multiplier is uniformly positive there, which is why the loudest agent boosters tend to be small teams, and why they are mostly right about their own context." buff.ly/NLntppg #ai #knowledgework #sharedunderstanding #ensembleworking

The bottleneck was never the code

The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.

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"'It feels like we are all in a fishbowl waiting for our human masters to drop some food in a big aquarium,' someone wrote plaintively in a Slack for another project I joined that yielded barely any work." www.wired.com/story/i-work... #ai #work #enshittification #gigeconomy

"If they need to chase five different people for incomplete documents, you're not going to speed up said process by adding more lawyers to the department." frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-05... #ai #theoryofconstraints #lean #productivity

"AI business models from many smaller companies… are fundamentally flawed. They're busy selling cost reduction, which works for a while, but value creation happens in a network." seths.blog/2026/05/ai-t... #ai #teaming #mobprogramming #pairprogramming #ensembleworking

"If you're eager to be proven wrong, learning is delightful." seths.blog/2023/09/ive-... #knowledgework #science #joy

"If pair programming makes you feel like you're an air traffic controller trying to talk down an air plane piloted by a fidgety 12 year old you're doing it wrong." softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/44... #softwareengineering #pairprogramming #classic

"For the longest time, writing was more expensive than reading. If you encountered a body of written text, you could be sure that at the very least, a human spent some time writing it down. The text used to have an innate proof-of-..." buff.ly/QY6geRN #ai #writing #thi…

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

Feeding slop is an act of war

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"Value creation is more likely to happen when people use the machines for leverage, not when they try to do the work that the machine can do. Bullshit jobs will disappear, especially as the meme of corporations with less ballast cat..." ift.tt/l2v56YA #ai #automation …

Value creation, bullshit jobs and the future of work

We create a job whenever someone with the authority to hire decides the value created is greater than the wages paid. In my lifetime, we’ve invented 7 billion or more jobs, which is great new…

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"Because the interviewer can't distinguish 'skipped steps due to incompetence' from 'skipped steps due to operating at a higher cognitive level,' they default to the interpretation that protects their ego." buff.ly/UdwzDNk #softwareengineering #hiring #dunningkrugereff…

"It's like a doctor hearing a patient who says, 'My knee hurts,' who then delivers a lecture on the elegance of the musculoskeletal system. The patient doesn't need you to appreciate the beauty of human biology. They need you to loo..." buff.ly/CFuIBOr #ai #humanity #p…

AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome

A communications intervention

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"The accuracy of the forecasts has meant that when delivery dates aren't soon enough for a client, no one questions the accuracy of the forecasts. Instead, we get creative in ways to deliver sooner." buff.ly/62OGP0Z #noestimates #noguessing #justmath #classic

Reckoning with Reality with Probabilistic Forecasting

A brief introduction to probabilistic forecasting, and how accurate forecasts help us reckon with reality.

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"When you stop using the agent, all the productivity benefit goes away... but the added maintenance costs don't! As long as that code's still around, you're stuck with lower productivity than if..." buff.ly/JgfEV2c #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #product…

James Shore: You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs

The Art of AgileSM

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"What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for." buff.ly/pqZORXG #great #work #curious #classic

"What I didn't expect was how difficult it would be. I relate it somewhat to the feeling I have with working out. Often times I want to avoid it because it's hard, but I'm always happy when I push through and complete it." buff.ly/OIzZBQy #focus #emptiness #meditation

Staring at walls to improve focus and productivity

I came across a video by Simple Lucas describing a routine to improve focus and productivity. The routine was basically: Don’t use any screens/entertainment when trying to focus on work. When you start...

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