John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 28/09/2026The SAP Gateway log confirms someone is looking for the OnlyFans module. 000
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 28/09/2026Really enjoying The Peterman Pod - Podcast Two recurring topics FIRE - Financial Independence Retire Early and the people who did it and came back Doers Vs Talkers and riding the pendulum of going down deep Vs higher up and broad share.google/wUoGMKasp1M9...share.googleThe Peterman PodTechnology Podcast · Updated Weekly · Sharing the transparent career stories of technical people. Hosted by an ex-Staff engineer at Instagram 020
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 27/09/2026Just finished listening to "Engineering Executive’s Primer" a bird’s-eye view into being a CTO at a fast-growing startup. Engineering strategy, P&L, GAAP vs non-GAAP, acquisitions, marketing vs GTM vs R&D and even angel investing as a way to understand VC funding. www.oreilly.com/library/view...oreilly.com 000
Reposted by John PattersonKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 24/09/2026Seems the AI Labs are running a free pen testing service. 810214
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 23/09/2026The anxiety of unfinished work used to stay at the keyboard. You walked the dog or went to the gym, and the work waited. With AI agents, the work keeps running. So instead of leaving work behind, you wake up wondering what your agents did overnight. 100
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 21/09/2026A friend told me he's interviewing for an architect role. For the next interview he has 15 minutes to explain what he's learnt about the programme, how he'd improve it, and what he'd do in his first 90 days. Honestly, I like it. It tests how you think. 230
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 21/09/2026A lot of enterprises have principles like buy vs build, and SI-first for development outside their core domain. I wonder how AI changes these. Build more, or use AI to write the glue between what we buy? Does that push SIs toward fractional, outcome-based engagements? 220
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 20/09/2026Just finished binge-watching Neagley. Felt on par with, if not better than, the latest season of Reacher. 011
Reposted by John PattersonTHE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 18/09/2026Fire is invented. 51806364
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 14/09/2026"We believe that rigorous use of AI helps a company like ours accelerate development, delight customers, and go head to head with competitors with vastly more resources. We believe that using AI is not a replacement for skill and craft, but an amplification." Culture eats breakfast for strategy 120
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 14/09/2026“Could you send me the prompt you used to create this email?” Asking for the prompt is now the shortcut. The email is the long way round. 111
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 12/09/2026OH : “Projects die when they hit a deadline. Products die when we treat them like projects.” 011
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 11/09/2026If River Cartwright becomes the new James Bond, it would be a brilliant hat tip back to the slapstick Bond era, when Peter Sellers and Woody Allen were playing Bond. From Slow Horses to 007. 😂 010
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 10/09/2026The Story of VS Code youtu.be/kHL3XzjpT5w?...youtu.beThe Story of VS Code | Official DocumentaryYouTube video by Visual Studio Code 010
Reposted by John PattersonSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 07/09/2026"I don't know the answer myself, but I asked a blowhard I know and he took a wild guess, here's what he said: " How I interpret pasted replies from an LLM in online conversations 1616620
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 06/09/2026Lex goes to DHH "I'm an introvert who doesn't like speaking" DHH "me too!!" Meanwhile I'm half way through their 5 hour podcast that I can't listen to at 1.5X speed cause DHH already waxes lyrical at 2X speed 230
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 06/09/2026At SAP #SITSyd on Friday, I was talking with other industry veterans, lamenting that 30 years later salaries and rates haven't gone up. We worked in tobacco, alcohol, building products, car manufacturing and steel. Most have disappeared, moved offshore or been made uncompetitive. 100
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 05/09/2026 'Mitchell and webb holy grail' share.google/J7wTXi4eDhL6... always makes me lol @mikedoyle.bsky.socialshare.googleMitchell and Webb - Holy Grail boot sale 021
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 04/09/2026@vishnandr.bsky.social and his colleague Abdel, demonstrating running local models and MCP with CAP, giving every developer a business case for upgrading their laptop #SITSYD 3100
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 04/09/2026@marian.zeis.de walking us through his AI Journey (at 5:30am his time), so much has evolved in the last two years, who knows where we will be in another 2 years #SITSYD 171
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 04/09/2026Been over 8 years since I upgraded my laptop still running an XPS GTX 1050, thinking I'll wait for these RTX Sparks Nvidia RTX Spark ‘Superchip’: The First AI PCs Are Here | WIRED share.google/OZJ7dE5SICal...share.googleWe Just Got Our First Real Look at AI PCs With Nvidia’s RTX Spark ‘Superchip’At IFA 2026, Nvidia and its partners showed off the first RTX Spark-powered laptops and mini PCs, designed to run AI models right on your computer. 110
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 27/08/2026Researchers found AI-written CVs score higher when the reviewer is the same AI that wrote them. So if AI writes the job description. AI writes the CV. AI screens the CV. And nobody in that chain grokked what the job actually is. How do you stop the person who gets hired from producing work slop? 030
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 25/08/2026How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer lalitm.com/post/find-pr... impact doesn't come from being the loudest voice or chasing the biggest problems. It comes from noticing friction, understanding why it exists, and seeing patterns before everyone else does.lalitm.comHow I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff EngineerHow listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas. 010
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 24/08/2026"If you're connected to me and looking for work, hit me up." Seeing a lot more of these lately on LI. AI can tailor a CV to pretty much any JD now, so recruiters are left trying to find the signal in a pile of noise. Maybe we're just going back to word of mouth. 010
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 23/08/2026So many public product roadmaps have gathered dust over the last 12–18 months. Vendors going all-in on AI is understandable, but not delivering on promises while evolving the services will have an impact on early adopters. They adopted early expecting the product to evolve quickly. 010
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 23/08/2026LinkedIn now has a “report AI slop” feature. Sounds less like a feature and more like a full-time job. 251
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 17/08/2026Trying to work out how Cloud ALM creates transports in on-prem S/4 with no Cloud Connector. Rabbit hole led to ST-PI. Outbound only, yet transports get created in S/4 and somehow appear in the Cloud ALM Features app. No questions. Just debugging time. 010
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 16/08/2026describe your music taste with only three bands no genres allowed!! Faith No More Beastie Boys You Am I 1070
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 16/08/2026Developers tend to focus on technical debt - the decisions we deferred and the shortcuts we took But systems also change through what we stop doing and what happens around us Debt = deferred capability Decay = lost capability Drift = displaced capability Debt is chosen. Decay and drift accumulate 271
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 16/08/2026Two lines from a podcast this morning Writing is thinking. If it takes longer to read than to write, it’s slop. If writing is thinking, reading is an attempt to reconstruct someone else’s thoughts. AI can produce the words. Without obvious commitment or sacrifice, there’s no trust. 010
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 15/08/2026Binge watching Mr Inbetween, it's like Barry meets Breaking Bad 120
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 14/08/2026AI is slowly becoming another dependency, like a database, API or MQ. Yet enterprise vendors are making it a destination. Another layer where integration, orchestration, business logic and semantic models congregate. AI should be a capability within the architecture, not the architecture itself 130
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 12/08/2026AI productivity is obvious at the individual level. Less so at team, cross-team and enterprise level. More code means more reviewing, documentation, testing, bugs and sign offs. AI is stress-testing weak processes and governance. 230
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 07/08/2026 "Sophisticated readers can sniff out LLM-generated text, which inevitably hurts your credibility with them" 032
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 06/08/2026Delegation Is the Real Identity Problem in Agentic AI khaledzaky.com/blog/delegat...khaledzaky.comDelegation Is the Real Identity Problem in Agentic AII have been spending a lot of time thinking about a problem that starts simple and then gets complicated very quickly. 110
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 06/08/2026se-radio.net/2026/08/se-r... @jasongorman.bsky.social gives good insights AI works best when you apply agile principles to prompting and delivery. Smaller batches, clear boundaries, tight feedback loops, and fresh context between tasks. The bigger the context, the less reliable the outcome.se-radio.netSE Radio 732: Jason Gorman on The Effective Use of AI For Software Development – Software Engineering Radio 040
Reposted by John PattersonThe Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation.org · 05/08/2026On September 17, 1991, Linus released Linux 0.01 to a handful of curious users via FTP. No installer, barely a kernel, just ~10,000 lines of code that would grow into the OS running most of the internet. computernewb.com/wiki/Linux_0... #Linux35 24110
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 03/08/2026I enjoy crafting conference slides, but it takes time. NotebookLM turned my draft deck into some really good slides using my notes. About a 60% fit. I could clean them up, but it's obvious I didn't create them. The dilemma i feel is I'd lose credibility and authenticity presenting these slides. 210
John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 25/07/2026The old on-prem TechEd was about understanding the product deeply and talking to the people building it. Cloud changed that. More complexity is abstracted away, and the focus shifted to consuming and extending services. Now AI is becoming another layer of abstraction. 140
