Reposted by Kief MorrisPaolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This delights me. 3343
Kief Morris @kief.com · 01/08/2026"We ran an automated hacking tool in an environment that wasn't as secure as we thought, and it hacked things we didn't mean for it to." Not quite as exciting as, "Our super-powerful AI broke loose from its containment and went rogue, rampaging across the Internet." 000
Reposted by Kief MorrisRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids 18782022330
Kief Morris @kief.com · 10/06/2026Speaking at PlatformCon Live Day London, 23 June: "Humans on the loop, not in it: Taking agentic engineering end to end." My experiments bringing the path to production inside the agentic loop with CD pipelines. Tickets nearly gone: platformcon.com/live-day-lon...platformcon.comLive Day London | PlatformCon 2026PlatformCon is the world’s largest platform engineering conference. Join us for a full week of programming featuring 150+ curated talks and 30+ hours of hands-on workshops. 010
Reposted by Kief MorrisCharity Majors @charity.wtf · 06/06/2026There are many things to critique about AI. But I think treating it as uniquely evil, and not just a continuation of technological innovation, gives it power it does not deserve. And it delegitimizes real, harder critiques when we seem to be grasping for reasons to hate it. 2253
Reposted by Kief MorrisBirgitta B @birgitta410.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Third update to my article on "Maintainability sensors for coding agents": The test suite as a regression sensor. Assuming the tests are testing the right things (!), how complete are they? Are coverage metrics enough? (Spoiler alert: They are not) martinfowler.com/articles/sen...martinfowler.comMaintainability sensors for coding agentsA practical walkthrough of computational sensors on the path to production, with a deep dive on ESLint and static analysis as feedback for coding agents. 172
Reposted by Kief MorrisBirgitta B @birgitta410.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I started an article on providing sensors about the code's maintainability to coding agents. Part 1 and 2 out so far, about static code analysis, coupling, and modularity review martinfowler.com/articles/sen...martinfowler.com 042
Reposted by Kief MorrisDaniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 13/05/2026What if you think of your LLM as a proxy crowd-sourcer playing Family Fortunes? It makes a _lot_ more sense. You ask: > How can I get this image to sit in the middle of the page as I scroll? Claude's training data says: > We asked 100 web developers how they would centre an image... 043
Reposted by Kief MorrisPulumi @pulumi.com · 05/05/2026Stripe ships over a thousand AI-authored PRs a week. The pattern behind it has a name: the dark factory. The infrastructure factory is different. Here's what happens when the factory floor is your Pulumi state graph.pulumi.comThe Dark Factory Pattern for Infrastructure: Running Pulumi Lights-OutWhat the dark factory pattern looks like when the factory floor is your Pulumi state graph, and where to start without burning down a prod account. 001
Reposted by Kief MorrisAnna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here. 13676051413
Reposted by Kief MorrisJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Apropos of nothing, here is a list of things that sound way more exciting than they actually are - dog days - dragon fruit - helicopter parents - ghost writers - rat race - bath bombs - turbo tax - one horsepower - parachute pants - two party system - dog and pony show - electric slide 1230032
Reposted by Kief MorrisWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Neuromuncher, that should be. Weekly podcast wherein I describe my favorite snacks and local snackeries. 851620131
Reposted by Kief MorrisPatrick “Grumpy” Prill @testpappy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026The new ThoughtWorks Tech Radar reads like a warning letter. Cognitive debt. Broken productivity metrics. Terms nobody agrees on. If you've been reading my posts, none of it will surprise you. It's always nice to get evidence that I'm not completely crazy and making all of this up.testpappy.wordpress.comThe Tech Radar is Blinking RedThoughtWorks just dropped Volume 34 of their Tech Radar, and it reads less like a technology map and more like a warning letter. Several signals on the same screen, all pointing the same way. If you've been following my posts, none of them will surprise you. What's new is that one of the most respected consultancies in our industry is now saying it out loud. 03019
Kief Morris @kief.com · 20/04/2026Attn British Airways: regarding not being able to let me check in online because: "Travel authorisation cannot be found for entry to the UK with the passport details provided." It's a UK passport. Pretty sure they let me in. 100
Reposted by Kief MorrisEmily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 20/04/2026It’s been 10 years since I published Building Successful Communities of practice…. To celebrate I’ve published a second edition. Currently at a special price to pre-order (UK only) hellotacit.com/building-suc...hellotacit.comBuilding Successful Communities of Practice Second Edition (pre-order)Pre-order the second edition of Building Successful Communities of Practice. 02315
Reposted by Kief MorrisMaggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 15/04/2026Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering. All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process. We have no good tools for... 2213623
Reposted by Kief MorrisAdam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 15/04/2026The future is not pumping out slop until our software breaks under its own weight. Instead I think we use AI Agents to define a new SDLC. Larry Wall's virtues of a Perl programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris compel us to. /cc @bcantrill.bsky.social www.adamhjk.com/blog/lazines...adamhjk.comLaziness, Impatience, and Hubris · Adam JacobHow Larry Wall's virtues of a Perl programmer inspire me in this era of engineering 1262
Reposted by Kief MorrisPhil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 13/04/2026On the other hand, the "Austrian school" is basically a group of seasoned hackers and builders using simple primitives to create genuinely interesting systems. Pi is the engine behind OpenClaw, a product that took everyone by surprise, and now every company is scrambling to copy it. 332
Reposted by Kief MorrisMythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again. 47204878707
Reposted by Kief Morrissteve o’grady @sogrady.org · 07/04/2026i've watched @adamhjk.me's journey with AI and thought he'd be a good person to talk to about its impact on builders, and i was not disappointed. this was a very fun and interesting chat. redmonk.com/videos/adam-...redmonk.com"Absolute AI Maximalist" Adam Jacob on Building Software That Builds SoftwareStephen O’Grady sits down with Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-Founder of System Initiative, for a candid conversation about what it actually feels like to build software in the age of AI agents. Adam describe... 062
Reposted by Kief MorrisTrisha Gee @trishagee.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Looking for work. Will DevRel for coffee or wine 😁 13131
Reposted by Kief MorrisDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 06/04/2026The biggest leadership downgrade in the history of the world. 518126
Reposted by Kief MorrisKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026There's a nice #Artemis II mission tracker here: artemis.cdnspace.ca LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"artemis.cdnspace.caArtemis II Tracker — Live Mission ControlReal-time mission control dashboard tracking NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar flyby. Live telemetry, DSN comms, orbit visualization, and crew activities. 29662236
Reposted by Kief MorrisTheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026A different perspective. Always helpful. 190193484259
Reposted by Kief MorrisTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/04/2026My Easter books cartoon for @theguardian.com 261074429
Kief Morris @kief.com · 03/04/2026Awesome photo! But contrary to some commenters I've seen on here; no, you don't see the ISS, or satellites. And no, LEO debris doesn't create a perceptible haze. 000
Reposted by Kief MorrisBirgitta B @birgitta410.bsky.social · 02/04/2026New article where I offer definitions & a mental model how to think about harness engineering as coding agent users. Building blocks at our disposal, dimensions and goals to consider; emerging practices, open questions; and of course, what role do humans play martinfowler.com/articles/har...martinfowler.comHarness engineering for coding agent usersA mental model for building trust in coding agents through feedforward guides, feedback sensors, and iterative harness engineering. 1136
Reposted by Kief MorrisMartin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 02/04/2026NEW POST @birgitta410.bsky.social wrote some initial thoughts about Harness Engineering last month. Since then she's been researching more and has now written a thoughtful mental model for understanding the topic. martinfowler.com/articles/har...martinfowler.comHarness engineering for coding agent usersA mental model for building trust in coding agents through feedforward guides, feedback sensors, and iterative harness engineering. 1288
Reposted by Kief MorrisAdam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 30/03/2026I know that for me, the only way I'm going to find out what I believe is by actually building things on that frontier. If you're feeling anxious about it, or uncertain - might I suggest you do the same? www.adamhjk.com/blog/as-we-b...adamhjk.comAs we build, so we believe · Adam JacobBuilding the machine that builds the machine, in order to learn what I believe about the future of my profession 141
Kief Morris @kief.com · 20/03/2026This post by @doctorow.pluralistic.net on corporate bullshit receptivity (pluralistic.net/2026/03/19/j...) has echos of @vgr.bsky.social's Gervais Principle (www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/t...). Sociopaths have high Organizational Bullshit Perception Scores, while the Clueless buy into it.pluralistic.netPluralistic: Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (19 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 282
Kief Morris @kief.com · 03/03/2026Apparently people who work at Palantir call themselves Hobbits? 020
Kief Morris @kief.com · 20/02/2026Let's feed his notes into chatgpt and have it extrude the rest of the series. Can't be any worse than what Benioff & Weiss did with it. 000
Reposted by Kief MorrisBirgitta B @birgitta410.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I enjoyed reading an OpenAI team's report on building a "harness" for a no-manual-coding-allowed codebase. Refreshing to read concrete ideas about where the rigor might go, rather than just hoping “better models” will magically solve maintainability martinfowler.com/articles/exp...martinfowler.comHarness EngineeringNotes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery 242
Reposted by Kief MorrisJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I think one of our big problems is that we’re limiting Dickensian villain ghost visits to just one night a year like clearly the market can sustain some expansion 429843
Reposted by Kief MorrisPete Hodgson @thepete.net · 14/02/2026It's hard to find balanced opinions on AI coding. Lots of the people pushing the envelope on AI-Assisted Engineering also have somewhat bonkers AI-maximalist perspectives. Here's some people who're in the thick of it, advancing the field but who I also trust to bring a thoughtful, balanced take 🧵 3102
Reposted by Kief MorrisNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 14/02/2026argh. the thing is. vibecoding is so *fun*? it's so so fun. in his podcast with Ed Zitron this week, Cal Newport describes it as "a hobby, like making a model railway" and that is *exactly it*. it's really fun to make a thing with it. like whittling a wooden spoon and then you use the spoon. 4211
Reposted by Kief MorrisDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 14/02/2026You can’t build a Jetsons future with a Flintstones government 713237
Reposted by Kief MorrisNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026v good point from the Economist Boss Class podcast: chess-playing programmes have been beating chess grand-masters for decades. But people are still watching humans playing chess not AIs. Also however fun F1 is, it's still not OK to compete in the 100m sprint by getting into a car 18119
Kief Morris @kief.com · 02/02/2026The post @systeminit.com folks have decided they don't want PRs on their open source project. They want descriptions of the changes contributors want, which the team can give to the agents to implement. 100
Kief Morris @kief.com · 02/02/2026Here's what @adamhjk.me is taking about today at #configmgtcamp. The rumours of @systeminit.com's demise seem to have been exaggerated 010
Kief Morris @kief.com · 22/01/2026Platform every time I use it: "You should pay for a subscription to get rid of these popups!" Me: Buys subscription Platform every time I use it: "You should upgrade your subscription to the family plan!" (My family will never use this platform) 010
Reposted by Kief MorrisEsther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 16/01/2026"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."--Mitch Ratcliffe, in Technology Review April 1992 042
Kief Morris @kief.com · 13/01/2026What do you call a technology whose own creators can't distinguish it from magic? 000
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