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Russ Cox @swtch.com · 28/04/2026
“There’s a tidal wave coming. You can see it. We can all see it. Are you going to lay down and die, or are you going to do something about it?” Be ready to patch your systems, repeatedly, for at least the next 12 months.
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 15/04/2026
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Note-taking Meditations - Part 1 | Ivor Scott
The first in a series of personal writings on note-taking. AI-assisted note-taking: summarizing books, file structure, analogies and diagrams.
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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 04/04/2026
it seems more important than ever to give real thought to the difference between “busy” and “productive”. it doesn’t matter how fast the buttons get pushed if nothing of value comes out of that flurry of activity I’ve written about this a lot over the years jason.energy/context-swit...
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Please stop multitasking. I’m begging you. Please.
The greatest trick we ever pulled on ourselves as knowledge workers was convincing ourselves we could juggle multiple projects with no consequences.
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 04/04/2026
“Own your craft. Use the tools. Don’t let the tools use you.”
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I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.
My all-in AI experiment cost me my confidence
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 01/04/2026
What do educators offer that AI can't? ivorscott.com/articles/dra...
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Draw the Route | Ivor Scott
AI can generate a curriculum in seconds. Deciding which parts matter, in what order, and when a learner is drifting, that job still belongs to the educator.
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 01/04/2026
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 31/03/2026
Ironic how Anthropic sells Claude Code security reviews positioned as something v powerful (costing $15-25 per PR review), and being clear they use it on all PRs... then leaking all of Claude Code's code thanks to publishing their sourcemap. AI won't save you from yourself!
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 12/03/2026
1. Collect ideas. What is there to know? 2. Prioritise. What should you know? 3. Sort. In what order? 4. Associate. Associate your progress with happiness. (Feel terrible if you’re off track and celebrate if you’re on track —consequence and reward). 5. Teach. How can you explain it?
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/03/2026
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...
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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature
The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 10/03/2026
github.com/karpathy/aut...
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GitHub - karpathy/autoresearch: AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically - karpathy/autoresearch
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 10/03/2026
Attempt ambitious goals without doubting yourself. Even if you make it halfway, that’s success. Even if you fail at the beginning, that’s convenient. Learn from your mistakes and choose the right goals for the present and future you.
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 06/03/2026
Agent skills modeling explicit coding conventions improve clarity and limit surprises.
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AI Cognitive Debt: The Crisis Nobody Sees Coming
YouTube video by Imran Gardezi
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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 03/03/2026
I hate the re-soloing of development. We were so close to learning social skills, creating community, encouraging creativity & purpose, & applying empathy. Easier to manage if each of us is so busy with our genieswarms that we don't have time to talk & reflect.
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 03/03/2026
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How to Trick Your Brain into Doing Difficult Things
A Neuroscientist’s 7 Proven Ways to Get Yourself to Do What Matters
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 02/03/2026
Not surprisingly tbh. They keep changing things. There’s a new feature every few days. That’s why there’s 5k+ issues on GitHub. 👌
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 21/02/2026
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From Writing Lines to Writing Intent | Ivor Scott
Coding hasn't disappeared. It has moved upstream from syntax to specification. In an agentic workflow, the developer's value lies in defining intent precisely, not in typing code faster.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 20/06/2025
New blog post: "Why computational reproducibility matters" blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/0... 🧪
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Konrad Hinsen's blog
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
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The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 19/06/2025
Useful listing of mcp servers. mcp.so
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MCP Servers
The largest collection of MCP Servers, including Awesome MCP Servers and Claude MCP integration. Search and discover MCP servers to enhance your AI capabilities.
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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The paper provides a formal framework for what AI practitioners have long suspected. "A Conjecture on a Fundamental Trade-Off between Certainty and Scope in Symbolic and Generative AI" Version 2 papers.ssrn.com/sol3... 3/3
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 19/06/2025
This project looks promising.
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 19/06/2025
Doing less work reduces brain engagement? 😮 shocking…
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 17/06/2025
#gopherconeu
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 17/06/2025
TL;DR: Does it really make you faster if you need to maintain code you don't understand? You can’t have both speed and clarity without effort. blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/why-gen...
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Why Generative AI Coding Tools and Agents Do Not Work For Me
People keep asking me If I use Generative AI tools for coding and what I think of them, so this is my effort to put my thoughts in writing, so that I can send people here instead of having to repeat…
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 17/06/2025
My takeaways from the Building Agents with MCP in Go workshop.
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 16/06/2025
dagger.io/blog/agent-c...
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Containing agent chaos: Run coding agents in parallel without destroying everything | Dagger
Enable coding agents to work in parallel, safely and independently with your preferred stack. Powered by Dagger.
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 16/06/2025
#GopherConEU
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GopherCon Europe @gopherconeu.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Good morning from our workshops! AI Agents and MCP Tools in #golang by Daniel Mahlow #gopherconEU
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 16/06/2025
6 Agentic Coding Tips 1. Guide don't dictate 2. Review everything 3. Test incrementally 4. Patten consistently 5. Simple is better 6. Every AI output should be filtered through human
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 11/06/2025
@kentbeck.com is a legend in software engineering: and after coding for 52 years, he's never had more fun than now, he told me. Why? AI agents brought back the joy of creating software without the stuff that he's started to hate about coding. Watch/listen: • YouTube: youtu.be/aSXaxOdVtAQ (cont'd)
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Frédéric G. MARAND @fgmarand.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
So you would like to write more reliable software ? I just published a presentation about how to model software with TLA+, meant for software engineers, not mathematicians/logicians. speakerdeck.com/fgm/a-tla-pl... #tlaplus
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A TLA+ intro for Software engineers
This presentation introduces TLA+, a formal specification language for concurrent systems. Unlike most existing reference sources, it is meant for u…
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 10/06/2025
So I've been avoiding a deep dive into MCP–only recently receiving a brief introduction from watching @bretfisher.com live shows. Is it fate that the Go workshop I purchased for next week was replaced last minute? Guess what the topic is.
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a man wearing sunglasses and a suit is saying it is inevitable
ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a suit is saying it is inevitable
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 05/06/2025
I wasn’t aware of the subtle differences between AI and ML Engineering. Interesting read.
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The AI Engineering Stack
Three layers of the AI stack, how AI engineering is different from ML engineering and fullstack engineering, and more. An excerpt from the book AI Engineering by Chip Huyen
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jub0bs @jub0bs.com · 29/05/2025
New blog post! 🤓 jub0bs.com/posts/2025-0... #golang #iterator
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Pure vs. impure iterators in Go
TL;DR ¶ Go has now standardised iterators. Iterators are powerful. Being functions under the hood, iterators can be closures. The classification of iterators suggested by the documentation is ambiguou...
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 01/06/2025
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GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
We showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security ...
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 29/05/2025
Opinions spark healthy discussion. We can’t afford to remain passive. The cultural divide over AI, whether it’s friend or foe, misses the point —it’s both. This duality demands more investigation. Yet, the sheer speed of information today is dismantling our capacity for reflection.
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 25/05/2025
I wonder why Go programmers don’t engage in large public discussions on how obtuse other languages are. Maybe they’re too busy shipping real world code to production 🤔
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Thorsten Ball @thorstenball.com · 15/04/2025
Finally did it. I wrote down how to build a code-editing agent. In 315 lines of code. And yes, it works. Very well. There is no moat. Read it here: ampcode.com/how-to-build...
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 23/05/2025
If only research were easier to trace this wouldn’t take months to uncover.
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How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data
YouTube video by Pivot to AI
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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 18/05/2025
#Docker now has three major AI features. A built-in chatbot, a LLM host, and a MCP tool server and library. I explain what they are, and how to use them www.bretfisher.com/docker-ai-mo...
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Docker AI, Model Runner, and MCP Toolkit
Docker now has three major AI features. I'll explain what they are and how to use them together.
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 18/05/2025
Found this tonight and it's a really solid read on the Go runtime. Definitely a long post but it's got a lot of useful info in it. Learned a lot about things that I haven't really dug into before from it. nghiant3223.github.io/2025/04/15/g...
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Go Scheduler
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 10/04/2025
I’m attending Gophercon EU and looking forward to this workshop.
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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 20/03/2025
If you're using Docker or Compose to build your images, there's a more declarative way to do it that is my new fav. Had a ton of fun making this #Docker Bake video. I think the first 5 minutes is our best yet www.youtube.com/watch?v=99QL...
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Docker Build the best way with Docker Bake
YouTube video by Bret Fisher Cloud Native DevOps
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ivorscott @ivorscott.com · 22/12/2024
github.com/Genesis-Embo...
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GitHub - Genesis-Embodied-AI/Genesis: A generative world for general-purpose robotics & embodied AI learning.
A generative world for general-purpose robotics & embodied AI learning. - Genesis-Embodied-AI/Genesis
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