iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 17h

The last time building software sped up ~10x (early 2000s, the agile movement), a massive interest in automated testing followed almost immediately (unit tests, TDD, XP etc) Today, building software sped up 10x, easily: and a similar massive interest in automated testing + verification is following

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 18h

“In response to “The death of web development education” ” bell.bz/in-response-to-the-death-of… > The most effective way I can contribute, in my opinion, is a crude sketch I just did of Piccalilli‘s Stripe chart for all time sales: That graph is eye-opening

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I read Mathia⁠s Schäf⁠er’s excellent post, titled The death of web development education. I was thinking about how I can contribute to the conversation and really struggled to articulate the problem...

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fool's Expertise bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/27/f...

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 26/09/2026

Oh wow. This show was a lot of fun. I was completely useless both times. I did have quite a nice hack once tho

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 23/09/2026

Lol, 3 of my favourite companies right there. And they are all complementary.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 20/09/2026

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." Popper

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 18/09/2026

That's pretty similar really. Except the foreign language :)

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 17/09/2026

I think I just can't deal with real life any more 😂

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 17/09/2026

Has anyone had a similar experience? I actually stopped reading books completely for a while until I realised sci-fi and fantasy were fine (both enjoyable and helped me).

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 17/09/2026

I guess this is just the need for escapism, but it's amazingly strong. Like, I might manage to force myself to read a few pages of a novel, but then I have to give up. It's almost painful.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 17/09/2026

For years now, I've been unable to read straight fiction. I used to read lots of books and "literature", especially stuff from all time lists etc. Now I almost exclusively read sci-fi and fantasy, with the odd bit of non-fiction thrown in (but not bios).

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 17/09/2026

Yes! I maybe should have linked your article directly rather than the first one. It's hard to reason out where all this ends...

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 17/09/2026

The way to make a quick million is now to influence llms so that models integrate your product by default.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 16/09/2026

I've been on an AT Protocol podcast binge and I know tons of people hate it here and hate the devs and think the focus should be building something that's just like Twitter but tuned to the hater's particular tastes, but, man, what's getting built has me optimistic about the future of the internet.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 14/09/2026

And my suggestion is to unplug the ai, not the power station/banking system/healthcare.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 14/09/2026

I meant proof not evidence fwiw.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 14/09/2026

I was mainly joking. I will of course change the WiFi password as well.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 14/09/2026

Ok. That's part of the point though - we should be being a bit more careful with the hyperbole.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 14/09/2026

I've thought about this more and I must be misunderstanding -- do you really mean "there's a 10% chance AI could kill all humans" isn't an extraordinary claim?

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 14/09/2026

You're right, I need to deal with the battery.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 14/09/2026

And how does any of that lead to the extermination of the human race?

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 14/09/2026

Why? What proof do you have for that? Why would we let it? And just to be clear: your worry is AI going "rogue", not who is using the AI?

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 14/09/2026

Remember, if it takes over your roomba, you can just unplug it.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 14/09/2026

This is an important read for anyone alarmed by the AI extinction predictions. To sum it up; extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and that just doesn't exist at the minute.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 11/09/2026

There's a lot of room left in the world for humans to do thinking.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 11/09/2026

AI is an efficient way of doing things you should never have done at all. In a way that's great -- you can quickly figure out a thousand ways that don't work. But it's also easy to spend a fortune and waste your own time going down hopeless paths that would have been avoided by applying some thought

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 11/09/2026

When using AI I keep coming back to this Peter Drucker quote: "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all"

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 11/09/2026

A couple of trends I'm seeing across the industry. Which ones are you observing that I missed?

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 10/09/2026

I was pretty astonished by this one, you'd have thought they would think twice after 1password. Actually don't know what to say. DHH is entirely open about his politics, it's not like people can plead ignorance.

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puerco @puerco.mx · 10/09/2026

I had a lot of fun building some cool, futuristic stuff with Marina to achieve builds with attested hermeticity.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 08/09/2026

Basically, the issue is that any CVEs announced now may have zero days (-ve TTE), but can't actually have +ve TTE as the future hasn't happened yet. So it will always trend to the bottom.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 08/09/2026

I've used this graph in slides recently, and only just realised how misleading it is. Apologies to anyone I have in turn misled. zerodayclock.com have now changed their graphs.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 08/09/2026

Yeah, this makes sense. For the current year it's nearly always going to be negative because of the zero days, but it will rise over time as known vulnerabilities are exploited. I feel bad for using this graph now.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 08/09/2026

Ah, it's on the About page: zerodayclock.com/about#faq

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 04/09/2026

Users are at put at risk and have nothing they can do about it. This may force projects to start publishing releases *before* the associated source code. But that breaks the fundamentals of Open Source. And how could the code be shared with rebuilders like Linux Distros (and @chainguard.dev)?

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 04/09/2026

LLMs saw the update and immediately went to work creating and verifying the exploit based on the code in the PR. This places Open Source in a horrible position. Opening a PR to fix an issue means attackers can create and start using exploits before a fixed release is available.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 04/09/2026

This week I read a blog post by @anil.recoil.org . In it he describes creating a PR for an OCaml library to fix a security issue -- minutes later his own webserver is being probed for the vulnerability.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 03/09/2026

If you're at @containerdays.bsky.social and interested in surviving the 🌋vulnpocalypse🌋 that is now upon us, come to my talk at 9.30 in Room 4. Which is handily near the @chainguard.dev booth.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 02/09/2026

I'm going to refer to this in a talk tomorrow. This puts open source in a horrible position.

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 02/09/2026

This is completely insane. The existence of a patch for a project means attackers can build an exploit in minutes. So attackers are actively exploiting vulnerabilities before you have any chance of apply the patch or mitigations.

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Matteo Bianchi @mbianchi.dev · 28/08/2026

I shouldn't, especially on a Friday but... Starting in September I'll have more time for freelance work, if you know folks in need of Kubernetes/Cloud/Platform Engineering knowledge, send them my way 🫡

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 28/08/2026

This was particularly clear in the write-up from the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident, where agents "went rogue" to solve their given task (or even the tasks of other agents if they didn't make headway on their own!).

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 28/08/2026

AI Agents often fail the "Jurrasic Park" test: they become obsessed with what they can do and forget to think about if they "should". To everyone using AI right now -- please keep at least half an eye on *how* your agents are completing tasks. (Credit to @chainguard.dev CTO Matt Moore for this!)

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