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Sarah Wells

@sarahjwells.bsky.social
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Tech consultant/author. Microservices, board games, cheese, music, swimming, walking.

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Software Architecture Gathering @sagconference.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
𝟭𝟬 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝟭𝟬 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀. 𝗦𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀! 🤩 THANK YOU to our #SAG2026 speakers: @sarahjwells.bsky.social, Aino Vonge Corry, Mark Richards, Murat Erder, Radia Perlman, @nealford.bsky.social, @ufried.bsky.social, @nativewired.com, @bjschrijver.dev & Louise Humpington 👉️ t1p.de/l3nar
𝟭𝟬 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝟭𝟬 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀. 𝗦𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀!
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026
Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict
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Cate @catehstn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Engineers resisting AI as a Kuhn-style paradigm shift. Working with it means moving one level up, like IC to manager: notoriously hard, always easier chosen. This change is being forced on them. Of course it's difficult. buff.ly/vwWlsCG
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The Structure of Engineering Revolutions
TL;DR: The resistance to AI-assisted software development among experienced software engineers isn't random or capricious–it follows the pattern Thomas Kuhn identified in scientific revolutions sixty…
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Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com · 27/09/2026
Increasingly persuaded of the significance of the HuggingFace hack. Irrespective of OpenAI’s sloppiness, the behaviour of the agents is genuinely interesting. swarmtraces.org
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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 25/09/2026
How hot & dry was your UK summer? Excellent interactive tool to explore how hot this summer was: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK summer 2026: BBC postcode lookup shows how hot and dry it was
Most of us experienced drought and heatwaves - but temperatures and rainfall were not the same everywhere.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Avoid the queues, see the tapestry in Reading
section of the Bayeux tapestry in the nineteenth-century English copy held at Reading, with embroiderer's signature at the bottomthe copy of the Bayeux tapestry on the first floor of the Reading town museum (Reading, UK)
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Relax, everybody cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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New jobs in 140 years of data: Why the AI displacement fear is overstated — and what to worry about instead
Forecasts of AI-driven job destruction rest on counting automatable tasks. But labour markets hire, pay, and fire whole occupations, not tasks – and occupations have proved far more durable than task ...
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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Arguably the greatest song to be recorded 4 times by 3 iterations of a band under 3 different names and in 2 languages, and then remixed once before it reached number 2 (eventually scoring a number 1 when it was covered by my mate's little brother's band a decade and a half later)
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daryl herzmann @akrherz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Shots fired. openai.com/index/our-de... "We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts."
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Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
beautifully presented report. incredible new types of chart I had never seen before
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Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇
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Sarah Wells @sarahjwells.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Great set of interview questions around governance and guardrails. If you want to hear more, I’ll be speaking on the topic in Berlin in November
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
✍️ The North Sea is not just about the North Sea The weird and wonderful world of gas, in all its different flavours. And what the strange chemistry of methane has to do with one of the most controversial issues facing the new UK government 👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-north-...
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The North Sea is not just about the North Sea
The weird and wonderful world of gas, in all its different flavours. And what the strange chemistry of methane has to do with one of the most controversial issues facing the new UK government
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/08/2025
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 14/08/2026
Mark Zuckerberg built a metaverse, and nobody came. James Ball recounts what went wrong for VR—and what it tells us about obsessions with artificial intelligence
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Life at the end of the metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Wow this is a bad result for Farage. In the most Reform friendly seat in the country should get more than this - and Binface’s result shows once again that the centre and left will vote for literally anyone to try and stop him.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 13/08/2026
Why did your favourite pub close? Why is the High Street so boring? Why won’t Youtube recommend something new and interesting? Amazing thread, worth the investment of time and focus.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Food and art baked into a yummy package. 🫓 A stunning, traditional Uzbek bread known as Patir - a dense and celebratory flatbread. The bread is meticulously decorated by hand with detailed patterns stamped into the center and a sculpted, flower-like border. It is then baked in a tandoor oven.
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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A very interesting take on industrial strategy. Britain needs to redefine what it considers cutting-edge
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Britain needs to redefine what it considers cutting-edge
Burnham should promote a broader conception of advanced manufacturing that goes beyond frontier technologies
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 06/08/2026
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Behind the scenes of the engineering takeover at Charing Cross station
One of London's busiest rail termini has fallen silent while engineers replace every track outside the station, rebuild platforms and carry out the biggest overhaul since 1990.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 04/08/2026
I've written a long blog post about AI Agents and the need for those running services to prepare - technically, operationally, commercially, strategically, legally and in terms of policy. AI Agents could be a properly huge deal. There. I wrote it. loosemore.com/2026/08/04/k...
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Know Your Agent: Why you should act now, to avoid playing catch-up later
Back in March, I was beaten by the bins. I’d spent a happy few evenings (and a great many tokens) trying to build a simple web app: share any UK address, find out which bins to put out, and w…
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/07/2026
Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...
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Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
One thing UK people should do before they need it (related to the current conversation on @mrjamesob.bsky.social ) is get the lasting power of attorney stuff sorted out BEFORE you need it. Just gone through this for my mum and it is worth considering.
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Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is such a great, thoughtful piece…🙌👇
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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 21/07/2026
I had never thought about it like this - code didn't matter before but it does now because the computers depend on it not humans - but now put this way it makes total sense. Is this a good thing? Dunno davidwhitney.co.uk/blog/2026/07...
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Computers Finally Care About Code · David Whitney
David Whitney is a technologist, software architect, conference speaker and author based in London. Available for talks and corporate bookings.
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Genuinely looks as though the Spain team have brought along a satirical cardboard cutout for a laugh.
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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
cruise (maintaining intense eye contact and leaning forward to perform active listening): cookies? that’s fantastic, wow
tom cruise with Elmo and Cookie Monster
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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
thanks to whoever left this awesome giant sheep outside the museum! we're sure nothing bad is going to happen
A giant sheep standing outside the entrance of The Museum of English Rural Life
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This video clip of a swan landing on a lake is best enjoyed with AUDIO ON. Mute swans (Cygnus olor) are among the heaviest flying birds & require a long runway, which means we get the majestic approach, a few furious moments of webbed feet slapping on water, then the majestic splashdown.
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 11/07/2026
Absolutely essential reading about the impact of vibe coding on open source and the practice of software development generally, by @samlearner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cec8...
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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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Josey Back up North 🦚🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @joseybackupnorth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Always liked Lukaku 😀😀😀. Top shithousery #worldcup
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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 24/06/2026
I feel this in my bones
Quote from Charity's post:

"Some technologies are more damaging than others — knives are less damaging than guns, Facebook for colleges was less damaging than Facebook for Myanmar — but we always discover risks before we know how to govern them.2 There is always a gap while we try to catch up.

That gap is not proof that AI is evil. It is proof that we have work to do.

The fact that we have not solved the problems yet is not an argument to disconnect. It is an argument to engage, especially if you work in technology and already have an arsenal of relevant skills.

You do not learn to govern a tool by refusing to touch it. You learn by using it and understanding well enough to critique it, shape it, contribute to it, and set boundaries around it. You learn how to make it boring.

“Learn AI so you can complain about AI better.” I said it and I meant it. I still do."
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Ugh, every time I learn a new fact about Haaland I find myself liking him more and more, it’s terrible.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I wrote about the Trump regime's flailing attempt to co-opt the World Cup in service of their blood-and-soil politics, and why it's important to reject this messaging and engage in the joy of an event that is antithetical to the fascist worldview. badfaithtimes.com/fascists-are...
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Fascists Aren't Allowed To Enjoy The World Cup
You don't get to delight in a joyful worldwide sporting event that rejects your shithead politics
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Nice one @libdems.org.uk 👍
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This was just shared by @naomialderman.bsky.social and it deserves the widest possible audience. Ladies and gentlemen and all others, for your graphic design delight, I present… … the logo for the Paris Tennis School.
The logo for the Paris Tennis School. A racquet cut off just above the handle and stood on end like The Eiffel Tower.
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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
37 degrees in London for three days is it? YIKES. Time to review the Shade the UK list of ideas again to see if there’s anything further I can do on the flat. (Main thing is getting at least a temporary canopy up over the sunny patio, I suspect) So many ideas: www.shadetheuk.com/overheating-...
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Overheating Adaptation Guide for Homes — Shade the UK
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This is very sweet from @roberthutton.co.uk - how the Abbey National ended up writing back to correspondence for Sherlock Holmes after they moved into 221B Baker Street www.ft.com/content/004c...
that the Abbey Road Building Society built its new headquarters from 219-229 Baker Street, a block that effectively included 221B. In 1935, the first letter arrived.
The bank decided that letters to Holmes should get replies and, in a light-hearted decision that would have long-lasting consequences, opted to play along. A correspondence secretary would explain to writers that, as explained in the books, Mr Holmes had retired to Sussex. The letters began to flood in and continued for decades.
There were invitations to speak, requests for signatures and, of course, pleas for help in solving crimes. They continue to this day,
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TheNewDomShow @thenewdomshow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."
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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dublin-born Cape Verde defender Pico Lopes was offered a slot in the national side over LinkedIn. Accepted the second time because the first invitation was in Portuguese „which i didn’t speak”
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It appears my countrymen have arrived in the Americas and culturally appropriated a statue of George Washington.
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Paul Swail @paulswail.com · 11/06/2026
Wrote up something that's been bugging me about agent skills distribution... they get shared like npm packages but that mental model breaks down for the most common types of skills (workflows) paulswail.com/agent-skills...
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Agent skills don't travel well — Paul Swail
Agent skill distribution has a fundamental tension baked in: workflow is personal, but the tooling treats skills like dependencies.
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Very interesting @jburnmurdoch.ft.com piece this morning - how much value AI is creating is exactly the right question. The evidence from coders here suggests it’s so far creating a lot of extra output - 290% more files, 30% more software releases - but no extra valuable outputs (app downloads)
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How much value is AI really creating?
Eye-opening changes to the speed and volume of work are not always translating into genuine productivity
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Tech Debt Burndown Podcast @techdebtburndown.com · 05/06/2026
S03E04 Sarah Wells techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e... @sarahjwells.bsky.social joins @nickselby.com and @cpswan.net to talk about the lessons learned from her decade at the Financial Times, and their journey to implementing microservices...
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Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 3 E4: Sarah Wells
Chris and Nick talk to Sarah Wells
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