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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Google's plan to block unverified apps is a 'rug pull' on the 3 billion people who chose Android for its openness. Don't let them turn your phone into a walled garden. @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

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Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The frontier labs would have us believe AI is dangerous because it's becoming so intelligent, and not because they're letting critical systems be controlled by autocomplete. A toaster would be dangerous if you gave it access to the nuclear launch system.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Emanuele (Ema) @ematipico.xyz · 05/08/2026

Rust announced their LLM policy. I suggest everyone to give it a read. Objectively, it's well written, and it explains plainly their decision. It fits the project. blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...

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rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy | Inside Rust Blog

Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!

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CJ @w3cj.com · 10/07/2026

I built an LLM from scratch. Here's everything I learned along the way.

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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 24/06/2026

"We're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating trust." Code you can fix. Trust evaporates in an instant and doesn't come back. XP was a trust factory. Every practice that builds it makes you trustworthy. Vibe coding removes those moments: newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/trust-fact...

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

---> Bren'ts code ---> Claude's code 🤣 🥲🤣

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Prof. Dierk König @dierk-koenig.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

AI fallacies: underestimating the costs of silent resignation. dierk.github.io/Home/AiResig...

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AI Resignation

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 05/06/2026

If I see one more post claiming how awesome coding genies are, and as „evidence“ shows an increase in lines of code, I am going to lose it. GitHub Copilot just increased their prices. Do you have anything to show for the tokens spent?

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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 29/05/2026

A senior engineer, three years deep helping lead AI augmented coding adoption in ~4000 engineer organisation, writing honestly about their experiences. Very good and worth a read. jamiehurst.co.uk/2026-05-24_a...

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Jamie Hurst's Blog - Is this sustainable?

Jamie Hurst - Software and System Engineer, Enthusiast of Terrible Cars

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 21/03/2026

✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction I wrote a short blog post reply to @davatron5000.bsky.social’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people. matthiasott.com/notes/the-sh...

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The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 19/03/2026

Fragments: code review isn't just catching bugs, what role for observability in agentic programming, what we lose with GPS over maps martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · 19/03/2026

✍️ Blogged: Introducing Angular Testing Library Zoneless To keep up with modern Angular, there's a new zoneless subpackage that helps you write component tests. timdeschryver.dev/blog/introdu... #Angular

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Introducing Angular Testing Library Zoneless

To keep up with modern Angular, there's a new zoneless subpackage that helps you write component tests.

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 02/03/2026

This is fantastic.

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GuzH @guzhotero.dev · 27/02/2026

Whenever you feel anxiety about the technology updating increasingly fast, remember that Haas F1 web page runs on PHP + Drupal, and Ferrari's is on Nextjs 9 😅

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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 21/02/2026

Power looms and Jacquard looms at the Manchester Science Museum today. Automation of skilled work, protests against new technology... "How do you think you would react to technology replacing your skilled work?"

Photo of Power Loom at Manchester Museum of Science and Indsutry

Photo of description of Power loom

Power loom
T. Larmuth & Co., Manchester, around 1860
By the early 19th century, new machines like this power loom could make cloth more quickly and cheaply than people. Groups of angry handloom weavers raided cotton mills at night. They burnt and broke power looms to protest against the new technology.
How do you think you would react to technology replacing your skilled work?

Photo of ribbon loom with Jacquard head at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry

Text of description of Ribbon Loom with Jacquard head:

Ribbon loom with Jacquard head
T. F. Wilkinson Ltd, Coventry, 1900
At the top of this loom is a programming system. Cards with small, punched holes programmed the loom to weave different designs. It made woven patterned cloth much easier and cheaper to produce.
The punch card system inspired the invention of the earliest computer.
Weavers using Jacquard looms, 1900.
Past Pix / Science & Society Picture Library

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 13/02/2026

NEW POST Fragments: the future of senior developers, junior developers, more on cognitive debt, DevEx versus AgentEx, the role of IDEs, consequences of task switching in supervisory programming martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 05/02/2026

NEW POST Powerful context engineering is becoming a huge part of the developer experience of modern LLM tools. @birgitta410.bsky.social explains the current state of context configuration features, using Claude Code as an example. martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

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Context Engineering for Coding Agents

Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Great, great talk about Design and UX (although the title is a little bit misleading) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10

YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 23/01/2026

This is why ISO certificates mean absolutely nothing PostNL has ISO certificates on everything... but then ships this kind of bug to production, making it unusable. Clearly no E2E tests, no monitoring (We always knew ISO was BS for software development - but now there's proof)

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 22/01/2026

Fragments: Thoughtworks launches AI/works™, electricity consumption of LLMs, how LLMs shift where we put discipline, and thoughts on The Situation in Minnesota martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I have learned that about two-thirds of all software projects are neither delivered on time nor within budget. At first, this seemed ridiculous to me. It doesn't anymore, despite having worked with many smart people for ten years since. Join my thoughts in my new blog 🙏 dev.to/shaman-appre...

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Software engineering is an interwoven part of the loop

In my computer science studies at university, I learned that about two thirds of all software...

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

A great podcast that focuses, among other things, on the human side of the AI hype while also acknowledging its benefits. youtu.be/lIghF_OewYg?...

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The "AI is going to replace devs" hype is over – 22-year dev veteran Jason Lengstorf [Podcast #201]

YouTube video by freeCodeCamp.org

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I have put together a (long overdue!) draft RFD on using LLMs at @oxide.computer, but I know that there is a ton more to be said on the topic; thoughts and experiences welcome! rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576

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576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Ich wünschte, es wäre eine sehr gute, überspitze Parodie; aber eigentlich meiner Meinung nach eine sehr gute (und witzige) Zusammenfassung des Status quos www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3m...

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Null und eins macht Kunst? I Marc-Uwe Kling

YouTube video by Plattform Lernende Systeme

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Great, great series about Software Development in general by @ufried.bsky.social. I wish more people would talk and think about this; especially with AI in mind. www.ufried.com/blog/softwar... The only point where my view differs 👇

But for some reason, the business experts almost always require all the customization options that are only available with a 3GL. This is not a judgement. It is just an observation from more than 30 years in that business and I see little evidence that this is going to change.

Thus, my cautious prediction is that AI solutions will suffer the same fate as 4GL, MDA, No code/Low code and alike because business experts (as well as the responsible decision makers) expect to get both: Concise requirements descriptions in a few sentences while having all degrees of freedom of a 3GL at hand – which cannot work by definition.

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Menotti Minutillo @menotti.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 26/10/2025

Mediocre engineers think it's brilliant. Experienced engineers see the problems. Rare experts with proper practices actually benefit The AI coding discourse is a mess because we're all arguing from different vantage points For everyone else it means it's so hard to tell who's credible

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You’re probably listening to the wrong people about AI Coding | Rob Bowley

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Uwe Friedrichsen @ufried.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

i released a new blog post discussing that using genai agents for coding – while impressive in their capabilities – primarily seem to be a technological distraction from underlying, deeper problems (again): www.ufried.com/blog/ai_assi.... enjoy if you like ... ;)

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Solving the wrong problem

The nagging feeling that something does not fit

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 03/08/2025

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Smart people starting with whiskey and move on to AI Development and similar or other random stuff - Love the format: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h3E...

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Will Frameworks Survive? Web Development in an AI-Driven World w/ Typecraft and Robert Jackson

YouTube video by Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat

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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 02/10/2025

The idea of AI as a new abstraction for software keeps coming back – prompts as the source of truth, code as an artefact. Why it won't work any time soon, even if things like non-determinsim and hallucination become solved problems.

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Why AI won’t work as a software development abstraction | Rob Bowley

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 18/08/2025

The summer of AI prompt injections draws to a close. Almost every day in august had a security-blunder when it came to AI agents. Here is the best headline: "Urgent warning for 1.8 billion Gmail users: ‘Hidden danger’ steals passwords in ways even AI can’t detect" What happened during the summer?

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I scored 13/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

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Email is Easy

Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Some union, please make this demand at the next contract bargaining!

CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 25/07/2025

This article by @chriscoyier.net does a great job of expressing how AI is disincentivizating content creatation. Seems the end game here is bad for everyone, including AI tools, which loose up to date resources to steal... I mean use for research. chriscoyier.net/2025/07/23/i...

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Impact of AI on Tech Content Creators

Wes on Syntax: I write content. That content is consumed by people. But a lot of it has been used to train AIs for people to get a very quick answer. You can see the amount of bots visiting website…

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