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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 10h
"If your postmortem is full of sentences like 'we should involve support earlier' and 'we need to communicate better', or my personal favourite, 'we'll be more careful next time'..." michaelheap.com/i-dont-want-... #softwareengineering #developerexperience #incidents #continuousimprovement
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"It doesn't even get to the point of my considering Meta as Muse's creator." daringfireball.net/2026/09/ill_... #ai #meta #muse #nope #safetyfirst
daringfireball.net
I’ll Wait
I wouldn’t grant a stranger access to my email. So why would I grant a robot?
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"There's organizational laziness, in which a system is designed to have each person care a bit less about each task in exchange for completing more tasks, and there's individual laziness, which is the..." seths.blog/2026/09/how-... #quality #productivity #purpose #laziness #management
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The kinds of people whom you need to act as moral compass are the same kinds of people who don't join an organisation without a moral compass." ln.hixie.ch?count=1&star... #organizationalchange #rot #classic
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Refusing to engage with AI on moral grounds is itself a moral failure — the ethical path is disciplined, collective engagement that shapes the technology, not performative abstention that leaves the field to bad actors." charity.spicytakes.org/post/2026-06... #ai #ethicalconsumption
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The bottleneck isn't raw intelligence. It's that today's intelligence is hard to build on." typesafe.ai/manifesto #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #jev
typesafe.ai
Manifesto - TypeSafe AI
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"'This is very easy to build now that we have AI, and we don't need as many people' is a sentence that breaks a good culture and makes people believe that their job is not important." newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/good-cultu... #ai #productivity #culture #replacement
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Our brains pull an LLM-triggered ejection handle, bailing us out mid-sentence in an act of self-preservation." bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/t... #ai #reading #slop
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Pushing people's brand buttons is just not a good problem to work on, and it's hard to do good work without a good problem." paulgraham.com/brandage.html #knowledgework #purpose
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Real talk: too many of you are using LLMs to generate content." bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/y... #ai #content #attention
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Leaving things alone is an underrated engineering skill." graybeard.ing/software-dri... #softwareengineering #developerexperience #vianegativa
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Instead of accelerating my thinking, it began to replace it. Instead of aiding memory, it froze my curiosity into static categories." web.archive.org/web/20260518... #knowledgework #obsidian #productivity
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"I don't think they were responding to software. I think they were responding to possibility." agilealliance.org/the-most-imp... #softwareengineering #connection #humanity
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Once you notice the shape is the same you stop arguing about which tool, you just design a loop that still works no matter which one you happen to be sitting in." addyosmani.com/blog/loop-en... #ai #softwareengineering #factory #loop #harness #patterns
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"TDD isn't really about testing, as its name would imply. Rather, it's a design technique with low-level verification as a side effect." adamtornhill.substack.com/p/practices-... #ai #tdd #namingisaprocess #continuousspecification
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"In 2004 I wrote an article subtitled 'Nine benefits of making your methods shorter;' I could probably add another dozen today." medium.com/@jlangr/1980... #softwareengineering #softwarearchitecture #clearcode #cleancode #classic
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"The whole debt metaphor depends upon you writing code that is clean enough to be able to refactor as you come to understand your problem." www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJ... #software #technicaldebt #classic
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"If reading this wasn't worth your time, why is it worth mine?" tombedor.dev/human-attent... #ai #writing #attention #productivity
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"But maybe the more realistic hope is that women founders recognize there's really no way to thread the needle of others' expectations, and so they stop trying, en masse." medium.com/@ashleymayer... #women #founders #classic
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Businesses go bankrupt, not because of sales, but because the founders run out of energy. They stop fighting." medium.com/swlh/non-neg... #business #energy #failure #classic
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Often, entrepreneurs forget that they don't work for Milton Friedman." seths.blog/2026/08/the-... #entrepreneur #intrepreneur #patience
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"The forecaster AIs project that this moment will be reached one day in late October. Their 95% confidence interval is months wide, so they are almost certainly wrong about the exact time." ai-2040.com
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who's against is too against it and everybody who's for it is too for it." bsky.app/profile/dani... #ai #hottake
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"If you say that the giant metal spider from Wild Wild West isn't going to be the future of anything due to its massive, unsustainable costs, or suggest that its inconsistencies make it unreliable in some way, you'..." www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowin... #ai #progress #patience #emperorfashion
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"It's not that the engineers are getting slower: it's that every new button has to coexist with all the previous buttons." weli.dev/blog/half-ba... #softwareengineering #product #productivity
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The economics of readiness don't care how the bills are written; someone, in the end, has to pay for the waiting. Until Americans agree to pay for the option, they'll be forced to pay for the exercise." davidoks.blog/p/why-americ...
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Recognizing that certain content creators want to provoke rather than reflect reality creates useful cognitive distance." buff.ly/Ufo832p
sciencedaily.com
Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop…
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"A method that scales beautifully in a forty-minute YouTube demo on a greenfield app is not a method that scales across a real enterprise codebase with twelve tea..." medium.com/activated-th... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #specdrivendevelopment #productivity #quality
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"I think we have to distinguish between the AI doing your job, and the AI being incapable of doing your job, but your boss is such a sucker that he fires you and replaces you with the AI anyway. There's infinite evidence for the sec..." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026... #ai #bubble #humanity
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Employing philosophers might endow LLM companies with an air of respectability that slot-machine makers don't get from the behavioral psychologists they hire, but in both cases the companies are preying on people's..." www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... #ai #philosophy #psychology #marketing
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"I thought I was outsourcing maintenance to the LLM, but the slippery slope I found myself on was actually training it to have ever-worsening habits." unstack.io/write-code-l... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #cost
unstack.io
Write code like a human will maintain it
One of the best things about LLMs is that they'll write code for you, all day long. Who cares about DRY? You don't have to be the one updating the same long con...
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Every new industry buzzword pulls teams toward trying it before the groundwork is there. The demo stalls, or worse, it reaches production and fails." levelup.gitconnected.com/what-is-loop... #ai #softwareengineering #loopengineering
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"The strongest evidence for demonstrating that this type of balance has been achieved is when the need for a conventional organizational chart ceases to exist." www.shrm.org/executive/re... #organizationaldesign #balance #classic
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Aim the text towards the audience with minimum expertise so that more people read it." uxplanet.org/people-dont-... #writing #inclusion #classic
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Any coherent question about how it's going, what the goal is, who is using it, constitutes an inadvertent attack on the chain of command responsible for the work because there are no good answers to anything." ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani... #ai #emperorfashion
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"In 2024, the service answered more than 1 million more calls from taxpayers during filing season than it had the previous year, and reduced the average hold time from 28 minutes to 3, according to IRS data." www.motherjones.com/politics/202... #doge #irs
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Those humming GPU farms have given us superpowers, but we still don't use them to build better software." ptrchm.com/posts/nothin... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #thisisfine
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Fundamental laws of physics appear all-encompassing, but they're inferior to classical mechanics for explaining why it's better to be in a bus than a car in an accident." blog.exe.dev/claude-is-no... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #quantum #vs #classical #yagni
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"You can adopt coding agents without making the Dark Software Factory your platonic ideal, I promise." raymyers.org/post/zig-cre... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #darkfactory
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"This means the same system is complicated or complex depending on what (or whom) you know." jessitron.com/2023/10/26/s... #software #systems #cynefin #classic
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"A good harness should not necessarily aim to fully eliminate human input, but to direct it to where our input is most important." martinfowler.com/articles/har... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #harness #humanity
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Get it wrong the first time. Then make it better." seths.blog/2023/10/gett... #evolution #design #agility #classic
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"The people perpetuating this are terrible people, but the justice is that this is how they feel inside all the time themselves." geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll... #ai #hype
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Encouraging a commitment to life-long learning and development and a true respect for the difficulties inherent in each position, in my view, will only create healthier workplaces." stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/13/h... #learning #knowledgework #management #classic
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Nevertheless, outsourcing the entire writing process to LLMs may deprive us of the opportunity to reflect on our field and engage in the creative, essential task of shaping research findings into a compelling narrat..." www.nature.com/articles/s44... #ai #writing #thinking #forklift…
nature.com
Writing is thinking - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"28. To notice that every era has its printing press, and every era has people who burn the books." seths.blog/2026/07/the-... #progress
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"The leap from 'I built a thing' to 'therefore anyone can build a thing' misses the entire point of why you hire knowledgeable, experienced people in the first place." www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/c... #ai #knowledgework #leading #humility #humanity
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"With generative AI, the work of building efficient, scalable systems has not been done." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #ai #engineering #scale
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Large software projects have never been limited only by how quickly an individual can produce code. They are limited by how well people can coordinate their understanding of the ..." lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/th... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #knowledgework #productivity
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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"If your kitchen caught fire 3 or 4 times every time you were cooking I'm guessing you wouldn't handle it by doing triage to guess which fires to put out and which ones were just minor annoyances that could be ignored ..." medium.com/@mcarlson_sb... #softwareengineering #bugs #classic
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