Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026It's a shame that I'm writing my next newsletter on the plane after negative six hours of sleep, because the theme of the links is a bombshell: Generative AI is not "the future" of software development, but the last dying gasp of its past. MOAR & FASTER can't shore up the crumbling foundations. 514726
Stork @eightxeroxedbutts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Somehow I've been able to resist (until now) being a Reply Guy about CASE tools in the 70s 010
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026It's anchored on two pieces. I could honestly write 1000+ words about each one. The first one is by @baldurbjarnason.com about the disintegrating hegemony of US technopoly (and the conditions that served as the foundation for the VC-funded SaaS bullshit that funds 6-7 figure programmer salaries)baldurbjarnason.comThe old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be bornWriting at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland 24410
Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 25/05/2026are you familiar with Carlota Perez? she is an economist that frames technologies and their relationship to capital inside economic cycles (waves) in her framework, AI is the conclusion of The Information Age but software will be a layer in next wave too 100
Randy Au @randyau.com · 16/05/2026Every day we get closer to the point where "say AI, line go up" becomes unsustainable and a bunch of guys in hotdog suits are going to demand answers 170