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Having contributed to the advance of software engineering, it is sad to see the rise of a new profession, slopware engineering.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 7h

It’s artificial intelligence. In the history of computing, this puerile attempt to rename it because of the simpleminded whims of an incompetent and corrupt narcissist will be seen as a failure of leadership, an abandonment of intellectual integrity, and an embarrassment for any who join with him.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 12h

If you take OpenAI’s Dot and have it communicate with another Dot, in scientific terms this is what we call connecting the dots.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 28/09/2026

I have reason to believe that the mind is computable. However.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 26/09/2026

I can’t decide if people who assert that contemporary AIs can think or are conscious do so out of fear or out of envy. But I can say that any such people do so either out of emotion or perhaps driven by some pecuniary interest in it being true, not from any fully informed or defensible position.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 25/09/2026

The term "artificial intelligence" was coined before the term "software" first appeared in print.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 23/09/2026

I have absolutely no idea how anyone or any agency could ban recursive self-improvement. Alternately, I suggest you legislate a ban against naked pointers in programming languages, for at least that would gain you some political capital among conservatives.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

8. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 20/09/2026

I think it would be appropriate to call it not the next AI Winter but rather the Great Descent.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 19/09/2026

It is simultaneously strange and humbling to realize that the term “artificial intelligence” was coined almost a decade before the term “software engineering”.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 18/09/2026

It seems to me that the philosophy of EA/longtermism has consequences not unlike that of Christian evangelicals who long for the rapture: optimizing life for some mysterious utopian future at the expense of attending to the wonder and the beauty and the possibility of the now.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 17/09/2026

I have read many well researched, well reasoned, and well argued papers regarding the nature of software engineering. This is not one of them. arxiv.org/html/2606.05...

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The End of Software Engineering:How AI Agents Are Fundamentally Restructuring the Software Paradigm

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 16/09/2026

Contemporary artificial intelligence is to cognition as artificial sweeteners are to good nutrition: full of misleading hype, distracting, and when misunderstood and misused, dangerous to one's well-being.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 16/09/2026

I don't fear superintelligence. I said this at TED a decade ago, and I stand by that point of view today. Among other things, any so-called super intelligence that could be an existential threat to humanity would also have to be super-embodied. And that's not going to happen. t.co/Vyp3YDWz2o

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https://www.ted.com/speakers/grady_booch

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 10/09/2026

History has give us The Traitorous 8 (Fairchild) and The Apostate 11 (Anthropic). Clearly the next group of defectors would be called the Claudefathers.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/09/2026

Saying that a false thing is true does not make that thing true, no matter how many times or how many people say it.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/09/2026

AGI has, in fact, not arrived. Unless perhaps you mean we have reached peak Authentic Granular Ignorance.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 05/09/2026

I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number.. — Richard Brathwaith’s, The Yong Mans Gleanings, 1613 The first published occurrence of the term “computer”.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 05/09/2026

I do not fear the rise of artificial intelligence. But I do fear the rise of a small set of billionaires and companies who seek to build such things to increase their power and their wealth, all without transparency or accountability.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 03/09/2026

In my lifetime, I have been witness to the extraordinary growth of information coupled with the frightening decline of applied wisdom.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 26/08/2026

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in our prompts. -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II (revised)

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 23/08/2026

Science gives us tools whereby we may understand the cosmos: the violent formation of stars, the chaotic movement of air over a wing, the action and the structure of proteins in a cell.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You could argue, correctly I think, that the current willingness to tear down the post war order is rooted in the fact the folks who could tell you why it was built are almost all gone.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 08/08/2026

The opening in the face of Unitree's robots allows the spirit dragons to freely fly from the mountains to the sea.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 08/08/2026

Deploying more code faster is admirable. Deploying useful features is essential. Don't optimize the former at the neglect of the latter.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/08/2026

Water will find its way through cracks in walls and foundations in such a manner that even the most wondrously designed structure may collapse into pile of rubble. Do not attribute agency to the water; rather, denounce the engineers and the builders and the maintainers who failed in their work.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 02/08/2026

There are days when you are so totally befuddled because your software is behaving badly, you have to bring out the heavy guns, namely, your gigabit-sample-per-second dual channel oscilloscope. This was one of those days.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 02/08/2026

There is clear and present evidence that all agentic systems of a certain complexity may yield erratic and undesirable behavior. Consider, for example, the election of our current president.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 02/08/2026

In my work, as in commercial software engineering, we also recognize the presence of something we call “this AI is making shit up again”.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 28/07/2026

In Victorian times, there was the penny dreadful: mass-produced sensational stories of questionable quality with high shock value, all sold for a penny. I call this new medium of AI slop books "prompt pulp".

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 28/07/2026

Pfff. You young whippersnappers and your fancy machines. I run Kimi K3 locally, the old fashioned way: with pencil and paper, one matrix multiplication at a time.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 28/07/2026

I already have two books I need to finish writing AND a documentary to produce but if I had the time and space, the book I'd want to write next is "AI Design Patterns".

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 26/07/2026

In the fullness of time, LLMs will eventually become commodities and their price will be a race to the bottom.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 25/07/2026

How could consciousness know its radiance without passing through the appearance of night? — Russell Schwaber, The Privilege of Forgetting.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 23/07/2026

Looking to get/find/buy an NVIDIA H100 GPU chip. Not the entire system, not even a functional one, just the packaged chip. Anyone have one that's already end of life?

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 22/07/2026

Looking forward to the release of Elon’s latest project, The Slopyssey.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 19/07/2026

Why do I host all my git repos locally? Because I don’t want an AI scraping my work.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 19/07/2026

From a multi-day project with Claude when chasing down a complex software/hardware problem:

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 14/07/2026

I say this with all due respect but simultaneously with a rage that can unmake stars, a software-intensive system that “exhibits all the cognitive capabilities that the brain has” is not “a few short years away”. x.com/demishassabi...

x.com

Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) on X

https://t.co/PTeDiv1b6L

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/07/2026

Prompting is the new cut-and-paste programming style.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/07/2026

The story of computing is the story of humanity.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/07/2026

I love the smell of bookstores.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 24/06/2026

The world of computing is and will remain far larger, more impactful, and far more vibrant than the narrow subdomain of genAI.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 05/06/2026

I never expected that my study of Kalman filters in my astrophysics courses at USAFA in the 70s would inform my work on predictive world models in the context of neuro-symbolic systems.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 02/06/2026

I have something that Elon Musk will never have. Enough.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 21/05/2026

The code is the truth, but it is not the whole truth. A repository is the truth, but it is not the architecture: it represents only the development view of an architecture.

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