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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 2h

Typing ssh host uptime starts 19 steps, and running uptime is only the last phase 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don't be the engineer who waits for a ticket 🧵👇

Quote card: The agent can take the ticket, but it can't tell if the ticket is wrong.

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do you suffer from Impostor Syndrome? Always believing that you must be completely knowledgeable before acting? Adjust your viewpoint. Be a smart learner! #technology #learning #softwareengineering #leadership #personaldevelopment

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What is the #1 secret for managing a team? 🧵👇

The Skill / Will Matrix: Guide, High Performers, Direct and Motivate quadrants

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗯𝗼𝘅 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝘀 OpenAI noticed on July 19, ten weeks after the first message. 🧵👇

How OpenAI's agents got out of the sandbox: one shared service, three jumps, ten dates. Timeline from May 12 to September 4, 2026.

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can have only two of scope, time and quality 🧵👇

The magic triangle of software development: scope, time and quality

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cloudflare freed roughly 100 TB of RAM by cutting each DNS cache entry from 953 to 420 bytes 🧵👇

Diagram: how Cloudflare shrank a DNS cache entry from 953 to 420 bytes

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When to use GraphQL, gRPC, and REST? 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We use the most expensive AI models to read files, and this is not good 🧵👇

Diagram: how the shunt plugin cuts Claude Code tokens by sending bulk file reads to a cheaper model

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do we need 10,000 hours in something to become experts? Source: Lex Fridman Podcast #333 with Andrej Karpathy, October 2022 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had most issues with leaders who always wanted to be right 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday Developers Fun 🤣 Microsoft sign-in, every single time. #developers #softwareengineering #meme #fridayhumor

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wrote a guest article for Gregor Ojstersek's Engineering Leadership newsletter 🧵👇 Image credits: Gregor Ojstersek

Hand-drawn chart of team performance over time: flat before, rising sharply after, with a circled note saying Understand the important laws.

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Claude Code best practices I use every day 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When your database says "committed", your row is not in the table yet 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Running a local LLM still starts with a guess about what your machine can handle. llmfit, built by Alex Jones, reads your RAM, CPU and VRAM and ranks hundreds of open models by fit, speed, quality and context. 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was a guest on Software Engineering Radio, the IEEE podcast, talking about my book Laws of Software Engineering 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did you know that only 14% of code review comments are about bugs? 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Don't compare yourself to others 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Your mind can hold only five deep working relationships 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Turning a Word or Excel file into Markdown has meant one library per format. Anydoc handles fourteen formats, from .docx and .pptx to RTF, EPUB and PDF. Built in Rust by Firecrawl, with Node, Python and WebAssembly bindings. 🧵👇

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Giovanni Asproni @asprotunity.com · 18/09/2026

At times, it's difficult to explain to others why we did (or want to do) things in a certain way. Other times we need some inspiration. In either case, you'll find this Software Engineering Radio interview with @milanmilanovic.bsky.social an excellent starting point se-radio.net/2026/09/se-r....

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SE Radio 738: Milan Milanovic on the Laws of Software Engineering – Software Engineering Radio

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friday Developers Fun 🤣 Just don't touch it

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁. Recently, Anthropic decided to watermark Claude's output. Most people were skeptical about how this could be done. The thing is, they didn't know how a model samples its next token.

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do you know that each LLM is a neural network from 1958? 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You can now get Google search results as Markdown for your AI agent, with just one parameter 🧵👇

SerpApi ad: 'Live web search for your AI agent. One request, results back as JSON or Markdown.' A Google results page for 'Coffee' next to the matching SerpApi JSON response.

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On Writing Software Well by DHH 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here are some Claude skills I found useful 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Uskoro iz štampe izlazi drugo izdanje moje knjige Zakoni softverskog inženjerstva 🧵👇 Dva meseca posle izlaska prvog izdanja, tiraž od 500 primeraka je skoro rasprodat.

Drugo izdanje knjige Zakoni softverskog inzenjerstva Milana Milanovica

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How ChatGPT Serves 900 Million Users at a Time 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Next week in my newsletter, you will read why you can use LLMs every day and still not know what one does with your prompt I interview Sebastian Raschka, author of "Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)".

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication We as developers tend to admire complex solutions But the best systems are simple

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My book sold 1,500 copies in 4 months and one pattern: Europe still likes paper more 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Friday Developers Fun 🤣 Life of a Software Developer

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The people who build AI started to warn us in the same week some people say that AGI has arrived. But in the meantime we had two major security incidents with OpenAI agents. Here is what happened and why we should be worried: milan.milanovic.org/post/agi-is-...

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AGI is here and could be dangerous | Dr Milan Milanović

What AGI means, who gets to define it, and why the people building it started warning us in the same week NVIDIA said it had arrived. Two incidents this summer …

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Data is never really deleted in software 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We want AI to write the search, not only the answer 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What are some AI coding best practices 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How to reduce your AI spending costs 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Is the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident the first real sign of AGI? Here is the timeline of events 🧵👇

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You are not your thoughts What I found that in the past I tend to keep tight my positions and arguments, like they identify me I didn't like to change my mind, because it looked like I don't have integrity But during the time I figured out this is wrong You're not what you think

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 As an avid book reader, I have found a treasure of knowledge in some books over the years, which makes me want to read more.

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Friday Developers Fun 🤣 It's called vibe construction. #developers #meme #fridayhumor

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 Agents can today build in 3 hours what a team of developers used to estimate at 3 weeks just a year ago. But, those agents cannot tell you if it should exist at all.

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

𝗦𝗤𝗟 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝘂𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 We use SQL queries to access a collection of records that are stored in our database tables. Clauses are the building blocks of SQL queries.

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How Cursor made Git scalable The thing with Git is that it never was designed to be scalable. Your repo lives on the disk, and Git client expect every read to be consistent.

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I re-created my personal home page for 3rd time since 2002. It's now simpler and cleaner: milan.milanovic.org I also write blog posts occasionally, so you can subscribe to it: milan.milanovic.org/post/

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Dr Milan Milanović @milanmilanovic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We now ship 3x more PRs when we use coding agents Yet, teams without them gained only 25%. Linear just released a report on how software teams work by using AI technologies. They took data from their platform, from June 2024 to August 2026 and 199,000 users. Image: Linear.

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