Roberta Arcoverde
@rla4.bsky.social
Software Engineering Manager @ Google, Alura Stars, pernambucana. 🏳️🌈
Surely people's response to this will be "we need more powerful AI to prevent hacks like this" rather than "we need fridges to not have wifi" or at least "we need fridges to have a local override button" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack
Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.
bbc.com
If we want to regulate AI, why not start with a simple ban on LLMs using "I"? Easy to build, easy to verify and deflates a hype while still allowing people to use chatbots (so no one can claim we are limiting anything) My latest for @volkskrant.nl in English! www.felienne.nl/2026-10-08/#...
‘writing crystallizes previously half-formulated or unformulated thoughts, gives them form, and extends chains of thoughts in new directions’ As everyone has already said, this 2010 essay by Lynn Hunt is utterly wonderful:
How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA
Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.
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G1 publicou ontem uma notícia inventando uma personagem de Laura Cardoso que nunca existiu. Alucinação de IA entubada pelo repórter. A matéria foi reproduzida em vários sites e agora já aparece como sendo verdade em outras IAs. A internet morreu, só tem bot nessa porra
marcella@seajaill.bsky.social · 2mo agoe o pior é que uma alimenta a outra se voce pesquisa "mãe da nazare tedesco" aparece justamente essa (des)informaçao aí dessa IA em outra IA (que é o primeiro resultado do google 🤷)
“Ninguém deveria mais estar lendo código, assim como ninguém lia código de máquina” “Mas código de máquina não precisa ler mesmo, é sempre gerado de forma determinística” Bom dia 💜
China built a 40-story tower that banks wind power by hoisting giant concrete blocks, then dropping them when the grid needs juice. A skyscraper-sized battery with no lithium in it.
China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete
The Swiss company Energy Vault spent years pitching a novel idea: store surplus electricity by using it to stack heavy blocks, then recover the power by letting them fall. Boing…
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I think AI is the best opening we've ever had to bring our engineering values to the mainstream, instead of the top single-digit-percent of teams it's always been. But nondeterminism will take more engineering discipline. Not less. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands...
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.
charitydotwtf.substack.com
Segue a passos largos o momento Karma is a bitch do Luciano Huck: ONU acaba de divulgar o IDH 2026 e pela primeira vez na história o Brasil passa de 0,8 o que nos coloca numa posição inédita no rol de países com IDH MUITO ALTO. O maior culpado disso? BOLSA FAMÍLIA. g1.globo.com/politica/not...
Pela primeira vez, Brasil ingressa no grupo de países com muito alto desenvolvimento humano; avanços foram desiguais | G1
País chegou em 2024 com um Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano Municipal (IDHM) de 0,805. Dados são do 'Radar IDHM' divulgados nesta terça-feira (26) pelo Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolviment...
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A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.
Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 5mo ago"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...
something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
"nearly a dozen leading models were highly sycophantic, taking the users’ side in interpersonal conflicts 49 percent more often than humans did — even when the user described situations in which they broke the law, hurt someone or lied." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...
Seeking a Sounding Board? Beware the Eager-to-Please Chatbot.
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Inspired by npmx, I built Nugetz — a modern way to search and explore the NuGet registry. The .NET ecosystem deserved a better UX. nugetz.dev
I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code maggieappleton.com/gastown
Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
maggieappleton.com
AIs não programam. Elas geram código fonte. Isso pode ser útil às vezes. Mas programar é outra coisa. pablo.rauzy.name/dev/naur1985...
“computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills” tech won’t save us
@gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 10mo agoOne Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays. Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons. @nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her: pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …
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Lendo Project Hail Mary e repensando meu princípio de sempre ler livro até o final mesmo sem gostar :/ tá difícil esse hein.
Legendary Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uematsu says he’s never used generative AI, and never will. "I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself." automaton-media.com/en/news/fina...
It’s the Sete de Setembro – Brazil’s Independence Day – so it is only right that Coxinha, the emblematically Brazilian chicken croquette, is #RecipeOfTheDay! These, though, are mini versions, much more manageable for making at home. www.nigella.com/recipes/coxi...
Coxinha
Although a regular coxinha is more the size and shape of a bulbous, dumpy pear, these are mini versions, like fat little figs, and you can get a fabulous 70 of these emblematically Brazilian chicken...
nigella.com
BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make
The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme
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I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Impressão minha ou a tradução pra português de The Alters usou chatgpt e esqueceu de apagar o prompt? (e sim, tá ruim o texto em português do jogo, várias traduções erradas ou imprecisas, frases confusas que não soam natural etc)
