Reposted by Jon CanningGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 6hMan who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 531132013113
Reposted by Jon CanningButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 22hHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 9157022240
Reposted by Jon CanningSpelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Just seen this AI-generated poster for a British Army child-recruitment drive in Glasgow for *Black History Month* 2144
Reposted by Jon Canningbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 99139324616
Reposted by Jon CanningKevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 07/10/2026Well done to the person in charge of Surface for doing a presentation where Surface wasn’t spelled correctly. 401243252
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 07/10/2026Left wing agitator Mic Wright accuses crypto-only TV stations or money laundering 140
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 07/10/2026play.google.comCat Collector: Catch Real Cats - Apps on Google PlaySnap real cats, build your collection, and discover cats around the world. 000
Reposted by Jon CanningBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 06/10/2026"Software developers are not okay" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft... The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech. Direct link to the essay: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...baldurbjarnason.comSoftware developers are not okayWriting at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland 1718377
Reposted by Jon CanningWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This whole thread is absolutely mental. 48318
Reposted by Jon CanningElizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026 173128253007
Reposted by Jon CanningSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What. 5486122708
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 03/10/2026Wow, first try, you'll need to increase your snack budget now 000
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 03/10/2026Same, and it was fortunate timing that my diesel car reached that point a year ago. Even my most petrol head friend swapped his BMW M4 Competition for a (equally overpowered) electric car a couple of months ago. 020
Reposted by Jon CanningAllen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There's this notion surrounding AI-assisted coding that the entire process should be infinitely fast. People gnash their teeth and wring their hands because review takes longer than the generation, and testing even more so. 1/5 5131
Reposted by Jon CanningTheo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026Every AI CEO sounds like this. 81067305
Reposted by Jon CanningSergey Chernyshev @sergeyche.dev · 29/09/2026Just watched the video by @kevinpowell.co about AI impact on our jobs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aW7... I feel like many of us might be having "AI burnout" - a new type of burnout that we in software industry didn't see before. The analogy of moving from hand-crafted to conveyor belts seems right.youtube.comWe're all fed upYouTube video by General Musings with Kevin Powell 1205
Reposted by Jon CanningKate L @thisiskatel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'll be honest, I haven't actually listened to either podcast, but I've just voted for John-Luke because this would indeed be hilarious. 021
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 29/09/2026He blocked me when he said he was tired at a conference and I agreed that he looked tired in a photo. Weird. 000
Reposted by Jon CanningSleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him 2859241398
Reposted by Jon CanningDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11041801441
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 27/09/2026Quite, he's as popular as a reptilian hooker in a dress or something 000
Reposted by Jon CanningLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oh shit. THAT is worse than I realized 28870294
Reposted by Jon CanningMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The mayoral discourse in Berlin continues to be *utterly* unhinged. If the AfD had topped the polls the narrative would be “finally the people have been heard!” but since the Left won, it’s all “Queer Islamofascists and Woke are trying to conquer us with, er, affordable rents!” 191011207
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 25/09/2026lgcplus.comEXCLUSIVE: Social workers 'unable to back up AI evidence in court'Some children's social workers have been unable to back up AI-generated reports when questioned about them in court. The news comes as councils make 000
Reposted by Jon CanningMadeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I need centrists to understand that the bar for being the most beloved and effective PM of our lifetimes is in the fucking toilet. Saving the world would be nice but simply making everything merely as shit as they were ten years ago would earn my lifelong loyalty. 27116
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 25/09/2026Looks like a picture from a ladybird book @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Jon CanningAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Vibe coding replaces the interesting bit - writing code to solve a problem - and replaces it with the boring bit - reviewing someone else's code to see if they've done it right. It's a shit swap. 1018620
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 24/09/2026It's only been a couple of days, I can't stop typing "! code ." 100
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 24/09/2026leaddev.com/ai/meta-trie... "Meta’s AI “pods” boosted code changes 220%, but shipped features rose just 36% while incidents jumped 40%."leaddev.comMeta tried to shrink engineering teams around AIMeta tried to shrink engineering teams around AI and boosted code output 220%, but shipped features rose just 36%. 000
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 24/09/2026I've been trying out px0.ai to see if I actually need to type code any morepx0.aipx0: the IDE for humans and AIpx0 is the IDE for humans and AI, optimized for quick, fast code reviews. Featuring native Git and GitHub integrations with merge-base diffs, inline comments, and seamless connections to AI coding harnesses. 100
Jon Canning @joncanning.com · 24/09/2026In the old days we'd leave our unwanted sexy garage purchases in a hedge for others to find. No community any more. 020
Reposted by Jon CanningGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this is weird because I have never heard of the song or artist until just this second 512114