every time, i open any social media feed (which i do increasingly infrequently), "everybody screams" to the tune of "everybody hurts" by r.e.m. starts playing in my mind ... 🤷

i just released the 4th part of my "essence of architectural work" blog series, this time discussing the cognitive and the – usually massively underestimated and thus neglected – humane purpose of architectural work. enjoy if you like ... ;) www.ufried.com/blog/essence...

🤖 What stays human in AI-driven engineering? @ufried.bsky.social, @smeyen.bsky.social & @mrdowden.com explore: 🧠 agility’s strange silence ⚙️ the software crisis 🚀 how AI changes engineering 🎧 Listen now: https://tinyurl.com/j95y6aef #webinale #AI #SoftwareEngineering

i just released the 3rd part of my "essence of architectural work" blog series, this time discussing the economic purpose of architectural work (spoiler: it is a bit more and trickier than many people think). enjoy if you like ... ;) www.ufried.com/blog/essence...

KI beschleunigt. Aber hat sie die Softwarekrise gelöst? @ufried.bsky.social, @smeyen.bsky.social & @mrdowden.com im Podcast – direkt & unbequem. entwickler.de → 🎧 Zur Episode https://entwickler.de/reader/player/human-core-of-engineering-ai-age #SoftwareArchitecture #SoftwareDevelopment

🎟️ Der Early-Bird-Verkauf für die #BEDCon 2026 ist gestartet – und das Programm ist online! Themen • KI & Agentic Engineering • Cloud & Plattformen • Moderne Softwareentwicklung • Open Source • Softwarearchitektur Jetzt Early-Bird-Ticket sichern und das Programm entdecken: bed-con.org/2026/programm

⚠️ KI einführen ist leicht gesagt – aber viele Projekte laufen in dieselben Fallen. @ufried.bsky.social zeigt auf dem #EnterpriseAIDay der #jaxcon, welche 7 Fallstricke Unternehmen kennen sollten. 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/xzjzrxmled #EnterpriseAI

AI fallacies: underestimating the costs of silent resignation. dierk.github.io/Home/AiResig...

i released the 2nd post of my "essential architectural work" series, this time discussing several widespread detrimental anti-patterns that are found much more often in environments where the purpose of architectural work is not known. enjoy if you like ... ;) www.ufried.com/blog/essence...

🎥 Digitale Souveränität – was heißt das wirklich im produktiven Betrieb? @ufried.bsky.social, Sandra Parsick & Torsten Bøgh Köster diskutieren auf der #jaxcon über Open Source, Cloud-Abhängigkeit, Kubernetes, IaC, DevEx & geopolitische Risiken. 👉 https://youtu.be/8B4Hn7Vc3SI

When I woke up this morning I didn't think I'd be spending a bunch of time today getting familiar with Catholic theology, but here we are. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/...

if michael nygard writes, it is always worth reading: www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2026/05... (an imo very interesting take on how ai-based coding may influence software architecture)

started a new blog series discussing the fundamentals of architectural work, why it's needed, what it is, etc., things we have forgotten while debating the how only. without understanding them, we run blind, without purpose and direction. enjoy if you like ... ;) www.ufried.com/blog/essence...

This "Unethical Guide to Surviving AI Layoffs" by Mo Bitar perfectly captures the current moment www.tiktok.com/@atmoio/vide...

Turtleneck optional but highly recommended. #ai #chatgpt #tech #bigtech #job

TikTok video by Mo Bitar

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food for thought: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-ho...

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You can find the slides of my JAX 2026 talk "Forget technical debt" at speakerdeck.com/ufried/forge.... The deck discusses why it is not enough to look at technical debt in isolation and discusses some other options to affect it. enjoy if you like ... ;)

Forget technical debt

This slide deck takes a broader look at the topic of technical debt. It starts with a brief look at why software engineers care about technical debt and…

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You can find the (unabridged) slide deck of my JAX 2026 talk "The 7 pitfalls of AI" at speakerdeck.com/ufried/the-7.... The deck discusses some questions, we still need to answer if we want to use AI at scale in a sustainable manner. enjoy if you like ... ;)

The 7 pitfalls of AI

This slide deck discusses some of the open question that the massive AI push still left unanswered. It starts with a little glimpse at the market mechan…

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AI tools don't muddle along with us. They fall below muddling, plausible deniability disguised as code. Low features, low flexibility, complexity stacking until even the genie gives up.

Genie Tarpit

Genies give you code that’s a degraded facsimile of the mediocre code it trained on.

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the interview was in november which means, i do not have the slightest idea anymore what i said back then ... :D i hope it makes sense ... at least ... well ... somehow ... :) anyway, enjoy if you like ... ;)

Software Architecture Gathering@sagconference.bsky.social · 3mo ago

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 ✨️️ 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗨𝘄𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘀𝗲𝗻 💡In this #SAGconf interview with @ufried.bsky.social you'll learn: • why simple solutions are harder • why business understanding matters • how simplicity improves robustness 👉️️ t1p.de/iqu81 #SAG2025 #iSAQB

the current state of ai-based software engineering in a nutshell – as it is advertised by the big ai companies and investors, and picked up eagerly by too many IT decision makers: inhumane, not sustainable and prone to lead to very unpleasant surprises in production ...

Prof. Dierk König@dierk-koenig.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"AI does not work - but we have someone to blame" dierk.github.io/Home/AiDoesN...

companies talk a lot about "generalists" and "polymaths" in the context of ai but their job ads still reflect the opposite. and according to some friends who just changed jobs, they definitely filter out anyone with a hint of generalist during their interviews. /1

Almost reading the greats. (my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books)

i just released a new blog post discussing two observations that become very apparent in the light of AI about how we make our own lives rather more more painful than needed: www.ufried.com/blog/worst_e.... enjoy if you like ... ;)

Informatik Bildung (in Zeiten von KI) dierk.github.io/Home/Informa...

OK this piece by @reckless.bsky.social about why AI is unpopular among most people (anyone who's not inflicted with "software brain") is just solid gold from start to finish

The Verge@theverge.com · 3mo ago

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

is it just me or do you also get the "oops. something went wrong" page at linkedin regularly if you try to do something that is not just reading your feed? at least for me it feels as if linkedin's system quality went significantly down in the recent weeks.

I released a new blog post discussing two fundamental questions AI asks us in software development, titled "It has never been about code" and "Does it always have to be software?" Enjoy if you like ... ;) www.ufried.com/blog/never_b...

i released a new blog post discussing the increasing importance of resilience as ai taking over software development starts to increase rigidity and fragility in most companies. enjoy if you like ... ;) www.ufried.com/blog/in_sear...

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just read in a client document: "with ai, we have to focus on value, e.g., features delivered". well, a feature delivered is _not_ value. it is just output. it only becomes value if the user accepts it (and is willing to use/pay for it). 1/2