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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And they would still kick butt today.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seems like some Scottish blood pumping through those veins. They support Scotland and anyone playing against England.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Who's going to hire someone who claims they worked network security at OpenAI? 🤷

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 02/10/2026

In the market of agentic mania ,apathy and hubris appear to be the primary competition for most anything involving solid engineering. Apathy: we don't need no stinkin' rigor, because we can iterate so quickly. Hubris: give me a swam of agents and enough tokens to stand on and I can move the world.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He will fall over trying to walk like that.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Spin up a cheap VM somewhere and run a cron job. Github will disappoint you often.

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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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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saw this on IG this morning & had to share….things are truly fucked up in America right now

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八瀬🌻🎸 @slumflower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do I follow people from Texas, New Mexico and Colorado? We have a 19 year old Black girl who is a rape victim and needs assistance with a safe escape, finding a way to get an abortion and just needing a safe place to stay. I’m begging y’all. DM please.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SAFe slop! The CEO prompts claude by speaking and sends a document to COO. COO attaches the document and prompts claude and sends the new document to the CTO. CTO prompts claude code and attaches the document, then zips the code and sends it to the Program Manager with instructions. 'Ship this'.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hey @netflix.com, @primevideo.bsky.social, @disney+, @appletv how about some orthogonal design? I need a 'Never list', there are some shows I never want to see. Ever!

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is interesting how clunky some of it still is. A large language with a small std library is always going to have issues.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oof. I did develop some C++ based web servers back in the day.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have two questions: 1. Do you really believe the cost of using LLMs are going to stay where are now? 2. How large an increase in the cost of AI does your business model support?

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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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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Won't it be wise to just shut down all gambling or betting. As an industry, it creates nothing but misery for gamblers. Being online means that misery isn't really visible.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A system that collapses when you prosecute pedophiles, is not a system worth having.

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Ashley M. Gjøvik @ashleygjovik.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

EPA published a Community Involvement Plan for the Triple Site in Sunnyvale, California (3 nasty toxic waste dump clean-up sites, including my old Apple office). Learn more about the Triple Site here: www.ashleygjovik.com/825stewart.h... Read EPA's publication here: semspub.epa.gov/work/09/1000...

cover of the "Triple Site Superfund Site Community Involvement Plan" slides created by EPA showing an aerial view of the impacted neighborhood and the text described

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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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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Typesafe languages are obviously going to win out. I do believe the challenge is to find out which language provides best ratio between ambiguous understanding and token cost. I have a hunch modern Java and Kotlin will do well in that space. Worth investigating...🤔

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think there is a need for a service where consumers can send proof of purchase of goods that will be used by advertisers to stop showing ads for those products to said consumer. 🤔 The question is, who will pay for this? 🤷

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/09/2026

Handedness xkcd.com/3293/

Comic. [Two people considering diagrams on whiteboard] PERSON 1 with ponytail: The W bosons produced by the collider beam will mostly be left-handed. PERSON 2: So we should send in a *right*-handed batter.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The quickest way to slow down the AI market is to price usage at least at cost.🤷

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think it goes something like this... Someone reads a lie on LinkedIn about agentic coding, and thinks "Hmm, they can do that?" They then incorporate that lie into their own lie. Someone reads that lie on LinkedIn and thinks "Hmm..." Rinse & repeat.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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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 · 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 · 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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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just 5 years ago, if you wanted to affect the world you used mathematics and engineering to change things. Now we are burning the planet to achieve less using simple language. Why aren't we trying to enhance our ability to apply mathematics and engineering.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If they can absorb increases, they have been gouging us.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My brother-in-law was keen to show off his pressure washer and took the paint of the bonnet of the Holden Station Wagon his daughter had just purchased. Turns out the station wagon and V3 sedan bonnets are exactly the same size. 😂

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Evil seems to be contagious. A serious investigation is required of the spreading of heartless evil. 😳

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Imagine starting a programming class with the following joke: What do you get if you divide Arnold Schwarzenegger by zero? A null terminator. And everybody just stares at you? 😳

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/08/2026

Hey look what I got

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Why didn't they make Win95 a separate subsystem. This would have given us a completely different OS today.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

With NT 4 that all went south. The GDI and USER modules were moved into the kernel and many breaking chages for Win95 compatibility. I think they changed some stuff to critical sections instead of mutexes but the result was actually a disaster in terms of scheduling./

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My desktop in 1996 was a dual processor P133 with 128MB RAM running NT 3.51 It was an absolute dream I could start my custom mutli-process make and then Alt+Tab and be totally unaware of the build. Today that seems like a fairy tale.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Moore's Law has skewed things on the desktop. In 1998 we demonstrated a full treasury system with database and multiple backend services and desktop client on a 128MB RAM laptop. When we introduced a web server for forex orders we needed a separate laptop just to run Internet Explorer. 😳

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

At this point it would actually be cheaper to put Trump in an isolated bubble to make him think his reality is true and let the grown-ups fix the world. Letting the whole world experience his demented world is pure hell.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you watch enough NCAA track you can't feel anything other than watching slave labour. Seeing athletes compete in 2 sprint finals and 2 relay finals means that they ran anything from 4 to 10 races in 2-3 days.

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DaShaun Carter @dashaun.com · 30/08/2026

Spring Modulith gives you clean domain boundaries and event-driven decoupling without microservice network latency or ops overhead. You get strict architecture inside a single app, letting you move fast now and split into microservices later only if real scaling demands it.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You have to admit there are a few orders of magnitude difference in compute requirements per interaction.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In Afrikaans we say: "Laer as slang kak se skaduwee" which translates to lower than the shadow of snake shit.

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

😂 how about space separated values?

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

That assault deserves jail time at least

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Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is very specific relaxation of criteria. 🤔 Maybe there is some evidence that may comprise Patel himself.

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