No, AI is not coming for your developer job, regardless of the nonsense the hype mongers are pushing. (I'm talking just about developer jobsβit obviously impacts other areas.) That's not to say the layoffs aren't real, but rather that the corporations are hiding normal corporate behavior behind
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Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.0 Preview 4: Finally, Azure.Identity is Optional! π
#dotnet #sqlserver
erikej.github.io/sqlclient/do...
As usual siegfriedpammer.bsky.social and me overshot the alloted time, even when cutting down on samples during the talk...
In my experience, the vast majority of waste in a software shop is time spent building things nobody wants on top of overly complex architectures that solve problems we don't have. Focus on that. Put solving your customer's actual (not imagined) problems first.
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Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...
"If the whole thing collapses, as many people fear, the careless repetition of hype by editors who love the βeverything is about to changeβ narrative (always good for clicks) may well turn out to have been an important contributing factor."
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
"AI labs are moving up the stack not from strength but from necessity, because the model layer is commoditizing faster than enterprises can be rewired. These players recognize that orchestration, not intelligence, is the real control point."
If your cycle time sucks, automating coding won't do anything to your delivery pipeline.
You've got 99 problems, but the pace of coding ain't one.
by @paulisthrivving.xyz
medium.com/thrivve-part...
Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/a...
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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...
One of the critical things that distinguishes a senior developer from a junior developer is an understanding, deep in their bones, that the cost of DOING a thing is cheap compared to the cost of truly FINISHING a thing and utterly trivial compared to the cost of MAINTAINING a thing. Like 1:10:10000.
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...
A statement I totally subscribe to: "Established open source projects have a massive, compounding advantage in the AI era: years of training data." petabridge.com/blog/ai-wont...
Fragments: How AI is changing Anthropic's internal development, a detailed account of using LLM to program a knowledge management tool, obvious-easy-possible buckets for interface design, specifications cannot be complete, and lightweight tools to work with LLMs
martinfowler.com/fragments/20...
My longer analysis on what happens to software engineering, as a profession, if and when AI writes most of the code:
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/when-ai-wr...
1 year: It will become undeniable that LLMs write good code 1 year: Weβre finally going to solve sandboxing 1 year: A βChallenger disasterβ for coding agent security 1 year: KΔkΔpΕ parrots will have an outstanding breeding season 3 years: the coding agents Jevons paradox for software engineering will resolve, one way or the other 3 years: Someone will build a new browser using mainly AI-assisted coding and it wonβt even be a surprise 6 years: Typing code by hand will go the way of punch cards
I joined the Oxide and Friends annual predictions podcast episode this week - here are my 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for AI and LLMs (and KΔkΔpΕ parrots) simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/l...
I'll be doing (as usual) the challenges & changes part
A world without people - AI is a promise to wire the bossβs toy steering wheel directly into the companyβs drivetrain. | by Cory Doctorow
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#ai #trends #labor
A field guide to sandboxes for AI https://lobste.rs/s/l9gkjo #devops #virtualization #ai
And in case you missed the #ILSpy release itself: github.com/icsharpcode/...
π This week I improved MTP (Microsoft.Testing.Platform) to support WASM, browser, WASI π and made progress on Android π€π± & iOS ππ±.
Modern apps deserve modern testing, MTP makes it simple, fast, and future-ready!
#dotnet #testing #MTP
Given #minio is on the way out, I kludged together a small sample of #Aspire and #RustFS. AppHost.cs and Program.cs as demoware as can be github.com/christophwil... / github.com/christophwil... #dotnet
The recording of yesterday's talk "Testcontainers - Integration Testing Done Right" is online www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q4T..., samples and slides can be found at github.com/christophwil... #dotnet #Testcontainers
Get yourself a copy of "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... for Christmas
TechEd Europe 2001 - Talking about SOAP in the Bathtub - Don Box - 2001/07 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULCm...
In two weeks, we are happy to have Christoph Wille as a speaker at our next event! He is talking about Testcontainers and how to use them correctly in integration tests.
Thanks to LEAN-CODERS & @uter.bsky.social for hosting us this time!
Registration link: dotnetdevs.at/events/2025-...
#dotnet
How is AI changing software development? Martin Fowler (@martinfowler.com) says AI is the biggest shift in the field since high-level languages appeared (ones like Fortran or C, offering a new abstraction level to code at, versus Assembly):
Full epsiode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQmI... (cont'd)
I didn't even mention beans once
My notes on Google's new Antigravity IDE - at first glance it looks like yet another VS Code fork but there are some interesting new ideas in there simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/...
