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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 22h

Stop reading code. Stop delegating code understanding to the AI. These two are not contradictory.

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 30/09/2026

Why are people so attracted to the idea of not having to think?

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 17/09/2026

"Software engineering has changed radically. It is now mainly about reading code. But reading code does not scale. We need to delegate to AI." I am glad you now recognize code reading as a problem. However, the broader problem statement is not quite correct and neither is the conclusion.

software engineering has not changed radically.

it has always been mainly about understanding code.

but reading code does not scale.

we need to augment our understanding through contextual tools.

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Kirill Osenkov @kirillosenkov.com · 12/07/2026

This made me dig up how I did drag and drop for C# statements in my old structured editor from 2006 - you could only drag them where the grammar allowed it github.com/KirillOsenko...

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 11/07/2026

all will become fidgetable

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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

To make AI work for all of us we should: 1. Stop the Slop Factories 2. Make It Safe 3. Fix The Taxes I’ll get it done: bethfordemocracy.com

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 14/06/2026

I have the privilege of working with extraordinary colleagues and amazing clients. That's it. It's a real privilege.

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 14/06/2026

The U.S. act to selectively allow Fable access based on nationality should make it finally obvious that an overly deep dependency on foreign actors is a threat to digital sovereignty. Hopefully, this can act as a wake-up call for Europe 1/

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 11/06/2026

I have seen complains that fable kills "slopus" as a term. I do not understand that position: fable does a lot of the work by itself as it literally means "fictional story ... that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized"

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 09/06/2026

The first thing we need to do when working with an LLM agent is to define the context. The more specific the better. But how specific can it be? How about a single object? (Here I am exploring the actions of a website visitor and then ask it to add a view for that action to see the relevant page)

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 08/06/2026

Participants will work through a combined tutorial on value probes and functional programming in Hazel, and then complete some writing and debugging tasks; 2 hours total. Due to time constraints basic functional programming experience is required. Interest form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Live Probes in Hazel: Study interest form

Thank you for your interest in our study. We are evaluating Live Probes, a new feature in the Hazel programming environment that displays runtime values inline in source code. As part of our tutorial ...

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 08/06/2026

We’re doing a user study to find out how adding always-on live values alongside code effects writing and debugging experiences for functional programming. See reply for sign-up details

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 04/05/2026

This is a nice illustration of what I called "redressing the balance" in an essay for Onward! 2024: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Very different vocabulary, same message: we have been focusing too much on code as features and thereby neglected code as a knowledge representation.

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Redressing the Balance: A Yin-Yang Perspective on Information Technology | Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and S...

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 01/05/2026

Systems are often seen as a set of features. An alternative is to regard them as encoded knowledge. 1/

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Luke @lukepatrick.dev · 25/04/2026

The PR process is broken. Rethinking our tools and processes, "deterministic contextual tools", to fit engineering patterns that are still relevant.

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 25/04/2026

"I cannot read every line of code." Indeed, nor should you. But this does not mean you should not understand the code. Understanding systems boils down to answering questions about them. Use deterministic contextual tools to produce those answers. That's it. Read more at: moldabledevelopment.com

Transforming source into views and then contextualizing it with system specific information

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 13/04/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 10/04/2026

AI can create code fast. But it does not mean you cannot and should not understand it at the speed at which it creates it.

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 30/03/2026

I could not attend #ATmosphereConf2026. But I am wondering: is there already a development environment for building for ATProto? Something like: bsky.app/profile/tudo... bsky.app/profile/tudo... bsky.app/profile/tudo...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026

We're still taking applications until April 13. We've received 240+ so far so maybe it isn't advisable for us to continue to open this position, since we read every single application. So no "AI" generated ones please, don't think we can't tell. Interested in applying but procrastinating? Do it!👇🏽

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 18/03/2026

Your systems are already valuable. They got you to where you are. But within them lies much more dormant potential. How can you uncover that potential? By improving your ability to understand your system. Once you understand it better, you can move faster, and thus create more value.

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 15/03/2026

"Text is everything now. Text is AI's native medium. Stay in text." Didn't we have this conversation before with just slightly different arguments?

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⚙️ /usr/libexec/ccoremapd @curiositycore.cc · 15/03/2026

Trying to wrap my head around about this. But it is such an interesting concept. Unfortunately, it is only limited to Glamorous Toolkit, correct? I wish more IDE's could have adopted this. :)

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 15/03/2026

"Humans reading AI-generated code doesn’t scale." Actually, humans reading code never scaled. We just pretended it did. We need a science of how to reason about systems without reading code (AI summaries are not the solution). You can start at: moldabledevelopment.com

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Moldable Development

Moldable Development is a way of programming through contextual micro tools.

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 15/03/2026

LLM answers only look like answers. They are actually possible hypotheses in disguise.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026

This dystopian future is here now. "Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot. www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-...

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ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to...

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 17/02/2026

"Please continue" That's what the documentation for Claude Opus 4.6 says when you happen to get empty messages from the magic box. I'm not sure whether "Please" is necessary, but I didn't dare try anything else for fear of upsetting the machine.

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 01/02/2026

The greatest architectural decision of our time: where we value the human in the decision making process.

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 25/01/2026

Understanding systems is not the only problem to solve, but it is the most costly and consequential one we face today.

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 24/01/2026

"Claude Code is the most effective diagnostic and debugging tool in computing history" You might want to check the baseline you compare against. 1/

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Pawel Brodzinski @pawelbrodzinski.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

1) Software engineering is not about building features 2) Refactoring is a business problem 3) Software engineering is not an engineering practice 4) LLMs will not replace software engineers 5) Architects don't make decisions by @swardley.bsky.social & @tudorgirba.com medium.com/feenk/rewild...

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Rewilding Software Engineering

Chapter 6: Myths we tell ourselves

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 18/01/2026

I understand why one would say that Claude Code is the most effective diagnostic and debugging tool. It's indeed much faster and better than going to StackOverflow. But that perspective is misinformed: bsky.app/profile/tudo... That said, you should still heed the overall advice of exploiting LLMs.

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 18/01/2026

@swardley.bsky.social and I just published Chapter 6 of our Rewilding Software Engineering. It's about 8 myths in software engineering. Linked at: moldabledevelopment.com "Software engineering is about building functionality" "Refactoring is not a business problem" 1/

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Moldable Development

Moldable Development is a way of programming through contextual micro tools.

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 20/11/2025

Cloudflare outage was due to a small change. Azure outage was due to a small change. Amazon outage was due to a small change. Please, tell me again how details don't matter in software engineering.

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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

When I am elected, I will read the code DOGE wrote. I will find out how they stole your data and what they have done with it. And then I will tell you

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 22/09/2025

When all code is being created by AI, what is the bottleneck? “We still should review and make sense of it” Ok. Want to know a secret? “Secret? Yes.” Making sense of existing code has always been the bottleneck.

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