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Steve Fenton @stevefenton.co.uk · 10/06/2026

In case you missed it, Dave Farley wrote an article on #AI replacing software engineers. www.linkedin.com/pul...

100s of lines of code can be written in seconds but you would be mistaken to view this as an explosion of productivity. It is in fact a complexity bomb with a delayed fuse

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A dev team saying they're "done" because they shipped a feature is like a doctor saying they're "done" because they gave the patient the medicine. We're not done until we've solved the problem (or given up trying). This, I regret to inform you, requires you know what problem you're trying to solve.

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 03/06/2026

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

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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 · 20/05/2026

I find the acceptance and defense of mediocrity to be deeply depressing. This is true not just in the context of large language models, but particularly in the case of certain scholars and politicians.

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dreadwail @dreadwail.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free." "But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." --Frank Herbert, Dune

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dreadwail @dreadwail.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I don't really post things on the internet much anymore because my industry and the world at large have both gone mad. I'm just a bit shocked/stunned and don't really know if the world needs me to add my word noise into the LLM-ridden husk that remains of what was formerly the internet.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 23/03/2026

And what do we call a thing that is expressive and precise and deterministic and repeatable so as to produce reliable executable artifacts? We call it a programming language. slashdot.org/story/26/03/...

slashdot.org

Will AI Force Source Code to Evolve - Or Make it Extinct? - Slashdot

Will there be an AI-optimized programming language at the expense of human readability? There's now been experiments with minimizing tokens for "LLM efficiency, without any concern for how it would se...

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Billionaires are morons who got lucky. They have no better idea what will work than anybody else. See also: every overpaid CEO.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 10/03/2026

Great reporting from @rafeuddin.ft.com on Amazon's misadventures with AI coding (which have coincided with big headcount reductions) www.ft.com/content/7cab...

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

"Developers won't need to understand syntax anymore, just as long as they can <goes on to describe things that will require understanding of syntax>"

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I see posts on LinkedIn from people who believe dev teams should be pushed to adopt "agentic" coding so they can reap the "10x" productivity gains. Putting aside the lack of evidence for even 1.5x gains on teams, if it really were possible, why would they need to be pushed towards it?

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The Doom That Came to Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Ten to twelve years from now wars will be fought over the remaining sources of fresh water because of these fucking dipshits.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

someone in AI fucked up and actually told the truth

from reddit

r/ExperiencedDevs • 21h ago
Tech-Cowboy
An AI CEO finally said something honest
(Meta
Dax Raad from anoma.ly might be the only CEO speaking honestly about Al right now.
His most recent take:
"everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code
here's what things actually look like
- your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping
- majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life
- they're not using Al to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend
- the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon
- even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real
- your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills"

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The Doom That Came to Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future. mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

three panel webcomic
1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions"
2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day"
3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

"TDD slows me down" Good

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World should be required reading in high school. And congress.

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Paige Watson @softwareascraft.com · 05/02/2026

Technical debt is organizational debt wearing a compiler-approved disguise.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Seeing more and more posts from engineering leaders along the lines of "Tried Claude Code over the Xmas holiday and generated 10 squillion lines of code (that almost worked) in 10 minutes. Now mandating all our engineers use it as much as possible. Because I don't understand bottlenecks."

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 31/01/2026

Very often when trying to think about a problem I start wondering: "How does software X deal with that?" And 98.5% the answer is: they don't, they just let it fail. Often silently. Every time I keep relearning how low the standards usually are in this industry.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The software industry's lack of concern for business or user outcomes has never been more visible.

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Kylee Tilley @testingrequired.com · 20/01/2026

I really do love the spec style syntax for tests (describe, before each, it). When used correctly it's the best at representing test setups and expressing test intent. I also recognize it has many downsides that have to be accounted for. Let me tell you, it really sucks resolving merge conflicts.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Yes, that's the main problem in our industry.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

And, of course, there'll be the folks who warn about mythical developers "wasting time" making the software "too good".

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

As our civilisation relies ever more critically on software, we've collectively decided this would be a good time to lower our standards?

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

You call it "over-engineering" when devs make software more complicated than it needs to be. But simpler solutions often require *more* thought. Complexity's easy. You just keep typing. That's why I call over-complicating "under-engineering".

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Dear product folks who may be wondering what a *complete* software specification looks like, I recommend taking a look on GitHub. It's full of them.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The solution is the same now as it always was: SLOW DOWN. Take smaller steps - no, *smaller* than that! (No, even SMALLER than that!) - and test, inspect, refactor and merge more often. No, *more* often than that... etc

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I'm sorry, I'm calling it. The software industry has lost it's fucking mind.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 31/12/2025

The world Silicon Valley has created is exhausting and terrible. We absolutely need better technology, but in the meantime it’s absolutely right to reject what doesn’t serve us and reassess our relationship to digital technology more broadly. disconnect.blog/we-need-to-r...

I’m exhausted by the world Silicon Valley has foisted upon us — one we’re just expected to accept and adopt en masse, with little say into the direction of technological travel or input on whether the technology that benefits companies and CEOs is actually benefiting the public that’s expected to use it. Typically, I would call for better technology, and that’s at the core of the argument my colleagues and I made for digital sovereignty last year — not just for non-US technology, but for technology with a wholly different set of economic incentives and social values at its foundation.

But as we wait to see if that will ever arrive, there is a stronger argument forming with every passing month that rejecting the technologies being sold to us — and even going back to physical and analog alternatives — is the right move in the present. Maybe not everything has to be digital or digitized, maybe the internet shouldn’t be inserted into absolutely everything, maybe we shouldn’t be constantly connected in the way we’re now expected to be, and generative AI certainly does not need to be forced into every facet of society.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The Planning Game in XP has a rule: if Johnny reckons he can do it quicker than Jane, then Johnny just volunteered to do it. If your CEO/CTO/Head of Engineering comes back to the office on Monday and says "2 weeks?! I could do it in 2 hours using Cursor!", hand them the keyboard and wish them luck.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I get it. The boss is asking for an estimate. And you're thinking "But there are so many variables". Pro tip: the answer is 12. 12 what? Well, that's their problem.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 27/12/2025

2040: what was the AI revolution of the 2020s like, in 10 seconds

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

As 2025 draws to a close, my hopes "AI" was going to force more teams to address the real bottlenecks in development fade into the distance. 95% will just ship less reliable software, and take longer and spend more £ doing it. And users will be coerced into eating the costs. Business as usual.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Imagine how much progress we could make if our profession wasn't expected to reinvent software engineering from scratch every 5 years.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

2025 was the year when demand for "pre-AI" software developers started to pick up. Will 2026 be the year when demand grows for devs who don't use it at all?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/12/2025

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

Companies have also struggled with Al's lack of consistency.
Jeremy Nielsen, general manager at North American railroad service provider Cando Rail and Terminals, said the company recently tested an Al chatbot for employees to study internal safety reports and training materials.
But Cando ran into a surprising stumbling block: the models couldn't consistently and correctly summarize the Canadian Rail Operating Rules, a roughly 100-page document that lays out the safety standards for the industry.
Sometimes the models forgot or misinterpreted the rules; other times they invented them from whole cloth. Al researchers say models often struggle to recall what appears in the middle of a long document.
Cando has dropped the project for now, but is testing other ideas. So far the company has spent $300,000 on developing
Al products.
"We all thought it'd be the easy button," Nielsen said. "And that's just not what happened."

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

2025 will be marked by me as the year we learned just how much long-term operational damage organisations are prepared to inflict on themselves in pursuit of a growth narrative that's already been quite effectively debunked.

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Glenn F. Henriksen @henriksen.no · 16/12/2025

When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I wonder if the software industry will come back to its senses in 2026. 3 years is a long time to waste chasing ghosts.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Watch software developers. I mean *really* watch them. When they say they spent an hour "writing code", they've actually spent most of that hour *reading* code and *thinking* about it. Wanna boost your dev productivity? * Write code that's easier to understand * Get better at understanding code

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Glenn Fiedler @mas-bandwidth.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

OpenAI is pets.com. Act accordingly.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 29/11/2025

If by some miracle the whole AI industry falls apart because some tech bros decided to spend trillions on compute without spending maybe tens of millions a year on licensing art, I will laugh so hard I'll be in danger of a ruptured spleen.

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