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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/09/2026

Paramount is using a fake public interest group named "Neighbors For Strong Communities" to create bogus, AI-generated support for the company's $111 billion merger

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I Typed ‘Block the Merger.’ AI Revised it to ‘Drop Your Opposition.’

An AI assisted generator dramatically altered my statement before my own eyes.

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 08/09/2026

Fragments: dealing with AI's counterfeit utility, exasperated readers of LLMs, missing Creating Passionate Users, agents lack Verum Factum, three people making key decisions on AI martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

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Fragments: September 8

dealing with AI's counterfeit utility, exasperated readers of LLMs, missing Creating Passionate Users, agents lack Verum Factum, three people making key decisions on AI

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Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

System Design and Software Architecture Workshop in October: ti.to/bredemeyer/s... This workshop moves from strategic understanding of context and framing a design opportunity, through shaping system capabilities and properties, to designing components, interactions, and APIs. Sampling of pages:

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The big problem with make-agents-do-tickets efforts is that your job is not to complete tickets, but to (to pick two) cover non-functional aspects such as the software running reliably and being easy to change

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You people read "plans" all day? (rhetorical) Since when reading natural language with a new information hierarchy is easier than reading code whose structure you already know?

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Success at any cost is indeed a very American notion. Luckily the EU still has some people in charge who consider ecological and societal impacts over allowing a few billionaires to destroy it all in the name of success.

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Dragan Stepanović @dstepanovic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Software delivery measurement vendors would like you to improve the metrics, but not to the point where you change the way of working (XP) to the point that you no longer need the vendor or the measurements.

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This article has LLM tells all over it: load-bearing, em-dashes, "these two things are not different, they are the same" formulas. AI doesn't make you more productive when your audience cannot bring themselves to trust your output queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

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Where Does the Foundation Come From? - ACM Queue

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`fogus @fogus.me · 27/08/2026

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll vibe code it." Now they don't know how many problems they have.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you can get the *results* of Test-Driven Development without doing Test-Driven Development, then it doesn't matter that you didn't do TDD. The fun starts when you try to get the results of TDD without doing TDD, and realise that TDD is actually the easiest way to get those results.

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If an agent loop can't do $practiceThatIsFundamentalForQuality, the problem is choosing to use an agent loop, not $practiceThatIsFundamentalForQuality martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

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TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value?

Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Preach @doctorow.pluralistic.net! Hook to my veins!

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You are not alone! These few words posted on Bluesky were written without AI ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/folded...

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Ron @roncamera.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Leve Snoopy

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Getting sick of "Code generation is no longer the bottleneck — verification is" (with an em-dash, too). To say it with Deming, toasting bread is no longer the bottleneck; scraping the burned bits is

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/07/2026

Here's an irony: the "gig economy" is a statistical black hole. Workers, customers and regulators know very little about the most basic aspects of it: how much workers get paid, for example, or much unpaid time on the clock a worker puts in before they get a job from the app. 1/

A giant arachnoid woman arched backwards on the banks of a tropical river alongside which stand armed men. Behind loom palms, mountains and a smoking volcano. Rain sleets down over the scene.

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Different narratives: generative AI compared to outsourcing media.pragprog.com/newsletters/...

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Outsourcing and AI

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026

One thing I've learned about paradoxes: often the answer to the riddle of "how can this one thing have such a contradictory set of features and effects?" is "it's not one thing, it's *two* things*." 1/

A village revel in a sleepy wood, with many Renaissance peasants having a debauch. In the background is a hulking mainframe computer.

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Planning is overrated. (And please don't trot out that Eisenhauer chestnut—we are not the military.) As Woody Zuill said, "We learn what to do next by doing the current thing." When we release that current thing and get feedback (you are releasing in small increments and getting feedback, 1/6

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"On time and in budget" is a disaster when that thinking forces software to be released before it's ready. My current health plan's (Kaiser) software is a case in point. They released the new version on time! — riddled with bugs. 1/3

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Regarding the speed of an AI and the volume of code it can create: None of that matters.

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PopehatFanClub @iamsauerkraut.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

But it did not happen. Image is fake, OP admits it is fake but it gets him clicks. Keep the fakery to the WH. Bluesky needs to address the fakes.

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Dragan Stepanović @dstepanovic.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Slides from my talk "Agentic Coding - A Systems Perspective" or how not to inflate the elephant traveling through a boa constrictor. The talk combines Theory of Constraints, Systems Thinking, XP, and Lean lenses of agentic coding. drive.google.com/file/d/14YVq...

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Agentic Coding - A Systems Perspective.pdf

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/06/2026

Had @author-calnewport.bsky.social on Better Offline to talk about AI companies “doom-trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we need to make fun of those leading the scare-mongering. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · June 19 · 1h 2m

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026

The true risk is: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness for replacing mouthy workers with pliable machines to sell him a chatbot that *can't* do your job, and then your boss will fire you and replace you with that inept, defective chatbot." 17/

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Chris @sketchseven.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I think this is what will be left over after the “AI” bullshit hysteria implodes - machine learning tools that run locally, do one thing well (transcribe audio, for example) and are priced comparably to other software products.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 11/06/2026

I am so fed up with products I pay for polluting the user interface with AI-related visual clutter Google Docs now has a Gemini button hovering with no way to turn off. I do NOT want it or need it. I pay for Google Workspace, but do not want Gemini, do not need Gemini, and yet cannot turn it off

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/06/2026

"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I find this belief in agents improving their own harness mostly wishful thinking martinfowler.com/articles/exp... Analogies: - if we do retros, we'll improve how we work - if we diagnose tickets that took too long, we'll decrease future risk - if we post mortem incidents, we'll avoid more incidents

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Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops

Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/05/2026

I don't care who you are, there will always be times when hell is other people. Not because other people are horrible - quite the opposite! Other people are *wonderful*, but boy are they ever *stubborn*. 1/

A hand-tinted image of elderly people in the lounge of a nursing home. Three killer robots have been inserted into the scene.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The key to AI-assisted coding? "It's better architecture!" cried the architect "It's better specifications" cried the PM "It's more automation!" cried the DevOps guru "It's more AI!" cried the frontier lab "It's more agents!" cried the AI booster "It's smaller batches", whispered the data

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Here's how to spend some time on the train before work

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Some time ago I wrote about "The Great Filter" that keeps the large majority of development teams from rapidly, reliably and sustainably evolving software to meet changing needs. AI code generation is just widening the gap. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/t...

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The Great Filter (Or Why High Performance Still Eludes Most Dev Teams, Even With AI)

In my post about The Gorman Paradox, I compare the lack of any evidence of “AI”-assisted productivity gains to be found out here in the Real WorldTM with the famous Fermi Paradox that a…

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Was looking for a word to distinguish "plans" made by a software developer before implementing a feature, and plans written by AI assistants. On reflection I'm not sure these "traditional" plans exist at all: while Big or Small Design Up Front are recognized, a list of tasks to perform is not...

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Best metaphor so far of humans using generative AI as one tool in the bag, rather than being pushed slop to review for accuracy and quality: the centaur www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Th…

Whether you want to criticise, kill, or use AI, you hav…

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.

The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Social media's full of people scratching their heads asking "What are we going to do about the testing, code review and integration bottlenecks now that AI is making them worse?" The answer's been known for decades. And, it would appear, the proportion of people who know it hasn't changed.

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"integration, not code generation, is now the rate-limiting step in software delivery" www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blo... In other words, it can't just work on your machine but it has to work in production. How new local optimization really is?

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A Thoughtworks perspective on CircleCI’s 2026 State of Software Delivery Report

Is AI-generated code breaking your pipeline? Analyzing CircleCI’s 2026 data to show why platform engineering is the secret to scaling AI successfully

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We love you CircleCI, for collecting all this data showing "despite more code being written, a smaller number of changes are reaching customers". And for that reason, calling teams that run more CI workflows more "productive" is using the wrong word. circleci.com/resources/20...

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The 2026 State of Software Delivery - CircleCI

AI increased development activity by 59% in 2025, but delivery is slowing. Learn why pipelines break under AI scale and how top teams adapt.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Another day, another data set telling us what we already knew. In their AI Engineering Report, Faros detail what they call an “acceleration whiplash” effect caused by AI code gen. It's the same “downstream chaos” that DORA and CircleCI saw in their data. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/s...

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Slow. The. F**k. Down.

“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.” US Navy SEALS training mantra Another day, another data set telling us what we already knew. In the latest AI Engineering Report from Faros, the so…

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Going through the audiobook of Deep Work, 10 years later and with more experience of continuous synchronous collaboration *and* larger-than-organization instant messaging. First reflection is that one of the opposites of deep work is frequent interruptions, not collaboration with your peers.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

They want to make you a person who pays by the token to stay a person

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Indeed; no, software of any kind is not the same as a learning human www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHfk... For a trivial example, pair programming applied to LLM coding loses the benefit of breaking down knowledge silos

youtube.com

The Junior Developer CRISIS: How to Build a Team When AI Does the Entry-Level Work

YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"All of them are very skilled engineers. None of them are currently using swarms of genies or multi agent setups. Everyone I spoke to said they write little or no code by hand any more. The precise mechanics of TDD are different now"

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Emily Bache @emilybache.com · 30/04/2026

The way you adopt Agentic AI depends on your previous 'posture' for software development. It looks quite different if you were previously a TDD practitioner. In my latest video I examine the process in some depth. Video: youtu.be/_erJ5EdQFYU Blog: coding-is-like-cooking.info/2026/04/it-d...

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It Doesn’t Help To Push AI Into A Crappy Process - Coding Is Like Cooking

This post is based on a video with the same name on the Modern Software Engineering Channel Not everyone is seeing improvements from introducing AI in the development process. For the teams that were ...

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Turns out 90% of my skills were not worth $0 after all tidyfirst.substack.com/p/90-of-my-s...

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90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0

...but the other 10% are worth 1000x

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

One of the reasons I stopped teaching guitar was that most students wanted to know "the secret", and didn't want to hear that "the secret" was regular practice. But that really is the secret - the "one weird trick" to playing guitar better. See also: software development.

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