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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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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thx for the article! I wonder about the approach of AI evaluation. I have found AI very helpful in brainstorming and assisting with code reviews and reverse engineering code. But my experiments with AI ONLY asking how good is the code or what are the 3 most urgent issues were "interesting"

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I like to call this secondary costs of AI: Resources (especially time and money) we could have spent elsewhere. IMHO those are even bigger than the obvious direct costs and invests

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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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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

YES. What should we automate and how can we evaluate it and trigger alerts is IMHO one of the main bottlenecks. And IMHO we have to be very careful to not worsen the bottleneck just because we can now code much faster with AI.

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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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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I absolutely agree 👍 component libraries are still a trade-off (as almost everything in software development) but it has changed with AI. I recently wrote down similar thoughts, but from the legacy project perspective: dev.to/shaman-appre... - would love to hear your thoughts

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The Component Library is dead, long live the Component Library

AI is changing a lot in our industry - but there's no rose without a thorn. For example, open source...

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

(and I am very worried about those prototypes hyped as very good software engineering to be production ready / quality of digital products in the future - but that's another story 🫣)

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I wish more people would use there brain instead of joining the hype industry

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Anyway, this was a prototype which would have not been created otherwise - so a huge gain for the project. I think, there is a lot of bullshit measuring around and claiming improvements where stuff actually got worse; but still there is a lot lot of value

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I saw a vibe coded module using a dynamic import with the comment "this prevents circular dependencies". The import had no imports itself... But there was a >1000 line readme explaining why this module has great architecture; does this readme count into loc/contextEngineering/productivityGain? 🤔🤣

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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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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🖱️👀⌨️👀🌐👀⏳👀😵‍💫🌀

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

📦❓ 🔄 ☁️✨☁️ ⬅️ 🏗️📦

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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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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

AngularJS - and migrated it to latest Angular a few years ago; love the easy migration from version to version in contrast to React 👍 (even AngularJS -> Angular 😅)

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

AI can make up for great Q&A session to sharpen all those. Then, based on this creating some design with prompts - I can see value there. So 👍 for sharing some experience, but I am missing important parts here (and am afraid, that many people burn important time by getting distracted by AI fun 😇)

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

After 10min I started to only skip through. Isn't that just get a random starting point and then "moving pixels" by prompts? Where is the product idea? The user flow? The job to be done? What makes this unique to existing solutions? To me this kind of design is doing useless stuff with a (AI) tool

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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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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My guess would be vibe coded projects with AI (based on old training data) and general more downloads due to overall more projects? (thanks to many people trying out new projects with AI)

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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?

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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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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

IMHO, perfect match between domain, user vocabulary and code will probably never exist. But every creation and realization of wrongness is a knowledge gain and a step in the right direction. Asking questions and discussion them is for sure also valuable. (And 👍 for the open question style)

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Definitely - I think building the model from code is the most used way for devs but also the hardest. I hope some of AI gains is that we get more used to communicating style (although of course AI communication are not as valuable as conversations with real users)

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Like talking to real users? Talking to previous devs of the project? Appreciating the insights of our dedicated test team? ...

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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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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

ah, that makes perfectly sense. Yes, I don't use SSR.

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I strictly separate frontend (Angular) code and backend (NestJS) code. I put shared code into a plain (npm) module, and install it in frontend and backend relative from file path like "../shared" or use npm workspaces. If you have more advanced use cases maybe utilize something like nx.

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Torsten Severing @torstensevering.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The ability to write Angular libraries which are not hard coupled to an Angular version, so that I don't have to upgrade all my libraries with each major Angular version.

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