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Aleš Roubíček @ales.roubicek.name · 12/10/2026

All my blog articles are written in Texy! format - something like Markdown. All those years I was fighting with PHP as Texy! is a PHP library. Even though my site was historically .NET based and later Clojure generated, I always needed some way to host/run PHP. And it was PITA. So I spent some […]

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

“Artificial Intelligence in the Firm: Bottlenecks in Software Production”: fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf?ref=404media.… [Long and dense, have only scanned it, which was enough to convince me to share it.] #genAI

Artificial Intelligence in the Firm:
Bottlenecks in Software Production
Fiona Chen
Harvard University
Job Market Paper
James Stratton
Harvard University
Current version: August 4, 2026
First version: January 7, 2026
Click here for current version
Abstract
We study the impacts of AI coding assistants and agents on software engineering work, using
a novel proprietary dataset from an engineering analytics platform, covering 300 million work
events — including GitHub coding activity, Jira issues, and Google Calendar events — across
718 firms. We use a staggered difference-in-differences design, exploiting variation in firm-
level adoption timing of AI coding assistants and agents. Both technologies increase coding
productivity. However, productivity gains do not fully pass through to changes in software output
or employment. For AI agents, this incomplete pass-through reflects a bottleneck from code
review: review times increase, a larger share of code updates require revisions, and reviews
involve more comments. We develop a model of software production to structure these results, in
which AI affects both productivity and quality of intermediate outputs, and in turn can generate
a review bottleneck and limit pass-through.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I love it when nature documentaries also provide extremely timely commentary about our current world and state of affairs at large: "In more extreme environments competition is less decisive because it has one great drawback: It uses up a lot of energy. In the mountains, energy is a commodity […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I started programming computers in 1973 and one of the very first fundamental truths I learned about software development is this: The gulf between a program that works and a program that works for other people is orders of magnitude larger than the gulf between a program that works and no […]

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tuulimukka.bsky.social @tuulimukka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hegseth on aloittanut valtakunnankansleri -kampanjansa

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Aleš Roubíček @ales.roubicek.name · 07/10/2026

You are using macOS on Intel x86_64. We do not provide support for this platform (as-of September 2026, announced August 2025). Apple have dropped Intel x86_64 support in macOS Golden Gate (27). GitHub Actions are dropping macOS Intel x86_64 runners in 2027. Homebrew is a non-profit project run […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

New life goal/purpose: Enawesomefication!

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Kris @isotopp.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@bagder You cannot have a teams team named PRN, because each teams team also has an Office 365 space, and the space, hosted on a windows server, produces a directory for the space, named PRN-something, which was a reserved name in MS-DOS 40 years ago, and still is in current windows.

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Marcus J. Österberg @marcusosterberg.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

”In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection. Use of personal data “in the context of AI” should automatically be […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Current status: Waiting for various people to achieve REHGI (Rational Empathetic Human General Intelligence). How many more model versions until we reach that?

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: diaspodon.fr/@dada/1172904502278414… Fully repairable Design to last No DRM, No locks Free to refill ink Free paper format No subscriptions Open Source Paper roll or sheet 100% private data Congrats to the team for following through & refining this all! Also see more images & info […]

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TechAltar @techaltar.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The new Apple Watch features Audio Intelligence: it constantly listens, transcribes & analyzes everything around itself, including on Apple's servers. Here's what that means for privacy Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-the-alwa… YouTube: youtu.be/GyxYEYsNUn4

Thumbnail showing an apple watch that has it's micorphone on and text that reads "The death of privacy"

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Any "open source" project with a section proudly titled "Backed by the oligarchy" on its homepage[1] should be more than just a red flag to anyone (even if you don't know or care about the other horrendous political takes of its main author). This project with all its fascist dog whistling […]

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Aleš Roubíček @ales.roubicek.name · 10/09/2026

You can get macOS 27 with fewer accessibility issues right now; no need to wait till Monday. Just switch the update channel to Golden Gate Public Beta. Update to the final version that is already shipped there. After installation, disable the beta channel.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250… The only way this ongoing influx of large corporate sponsorships makes any sense to me is that they're betting on Omarchy doing to Linux what Rails did for webdev, AND to have a seat at the table guiding how that happens. DHH's abhorrent […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

RE: sfba.social/@sysop408/1171920232110… Somewhat disappointing to see still only very few people using this place also for work/professional reasons, with the result of these topics also not being more talked about or shared. I'm not at all talking about LinkedIn BS, but more about […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: beige.party/@Lana/117199176134302013 Being _bad_ at something actually is a feature and a key stage of learning, as well as a driver/trigger/incentive to improve... It cannot be skipped in the long term! Related (albeit in slightly different context), a quote from an old 2015 […]

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

"The penalty with LLMs is that you eventually run out of people's work to steal"

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Great article about the loss of diversity induced by recommender systems (including LLMs): Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same "A world that keeps removing the unlikely also removes the things that could have become the next likely. Ecologists have known […]

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TechAltar @techaltar.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

AI is causing new shortages in ... everything Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/tfc-ai-is-causing-… YouTube: youtu.be/nqHY9jVPym4

Thumbnail image showing me looking at text where "Memory, GPUs" are crossed out, while "PCBs, Metals, Fans" are not

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Aleš Roubíček @ales.roubicek.name · 14/08/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/11… "Machine learning techniques are great for situations where the cost of a wrong answer is low and the benefit of a correct answer is high. The problem with LLMs is that very few things involving text actually fit in this category."

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Aleš Roubíček @ales.roubicek.name · 11/08/2026

I'm moving the backend of our internal system from AWS Lambda/API Gateway to Cloudflare Pages Functions. Wow, it's so much faster even if it uses the same DynamoDB and Algolia for search. #serverless #cloudflarePages #awslambda

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Výletníci @kanada.f.cz.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Aby ekoteroristi neprudili, mají tu svůj vyhrazený kouteček na svoji klimatickou depinku. Zkusim někde navrhnout ať sem pozvou české klimatické motoexperty aby to vyřešili i tady…

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

OpenAI: we put our evilest AI in a sandbox that did in fact have an internet connection but mediated through a proxy that was only supposed to allow downloading python junk. It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree with the […]

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Aleš Roubíček @ales.roubicek.name · 01/08/2026

I'm curious about local small models, so I bought Tesla P4 on eBay. It said it is open box. Well the thermopaste was solid dry and memory thermopads as well. So I replaced both. I like the card is caped on 75W. It can be also used to encode videos on my Jellyfin server.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

"If you really want an "AI strategy" for your country, it should be this: wait for the bubble to burst, then buy hardware and talent at fire-sale prices in the wave of ensuing bankruptcies, and use them to extract more performance from free, open source models." I totally agree that your "AI […]

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Carlos Solís @csolisr.hub.azkware.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

One of many reasons why there's a justified resistance to #GenAI is that, by letting someone or something else do the work on your behalf, you lose on learning how does the system work, and how to actually maintain it. Every AI-Generated Line of Code Is a Small Loan — And Eventually, You Have to […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

drinking game but instead of drinking alcohol you increase the size of monthly donation to @servo whenever mozilla has a pr oopsie

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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

“I no longer think freedom and democracy are compatible.” —Peter Thiel, Fascist Translation to English: “In order for the .01% to do whatever the fuck we want, we must strip the 99.99% of their rights, their freedoms, and especially, their ability to form […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 15/07/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@electrek/116920976… > The person who called fossil fuels “the dumbest experiment in history” chose the dirtiest, fastest option the moment it was his AI ambitions on the line — and he’s parking the emissions in low-income, majority-Black neighborhoods while […]

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洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

One thing I keep coming back to when comparing #ActivityPub and AT Protocol: ActivityPub is basically a convention on top of the web stuff we already have. An actor is a JSON-LD document you `GET`. An inbox is an endpoint you `POST` to. If you already run a website, you can bolt this on without […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

RE: vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116767348106104… W Social's pitch is simple: Very traditional business people from other big businesses creating a "startup" (very important!) that does not demand anything, any structural change. WSocial is European-Washing for the same shit we already have […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

[Fundraising for Open Source work & maintenance] I don't do these often (only once or twice a year, if at all), but since I just lost the main sponsor of my open source work (forever grateful for their long & major support!), I urgently need to reach out to other people (especially users) for […]

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

🤣 “Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers” 👍 “A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims in its AI-generated search overviews. “The court treated the AI overviews as Google's […]

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Aleš Roubíček @ales.roubicek.name · 08/06/2026

I did a transition from Date to Temporal API on the backend side of one of my projects. The nice one is when you already use Intl. DateTimeFormatter, you don't have to change anything in this area. Intl accepts both, Date and Temporal values. #ecmascript #temporal #node_js

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