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"The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in recent months, characterised by a “high blast radius” and “Gen-AI assisted changes” among other factors, according to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the FT. Under “contributing factors” the note included “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established”. "

Interesting times:

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AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed. Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.

If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...

Gemini 3 on väga aus, see ytles mulle otse, et Parquet kirjutamine on talle liiga keeruline, teen selle asemel konsooliplugina. Ainult et... tekstifaili terminali aknas kuvamiseks on juba vahendid olemas, selleks ei pea parseriga raketti ehitama...

If you do not have many titles in "Pick up where you left off" list, Amazon happily hallucinates you some. Needless to say, hallucinated titles are all AI slop.

Enshitification is too mild word for this. You can probably guess on which titles I clicked and which titles Amazon hallucinated.

Book with a title "AI show you how to make money with AI," authored by A. I.

Stuff you see in the Amazon...

First lines of the test generated by a coding agent. Comment says: Build a valid tar with one entry, then append garbage so that the second tr.Next() call returns a non-EOF error.

Amusing: genie created a test to check if corrupted tar file will be handled correctly. I wouldn't bothered to do this by hand, but hey! tokens are cheap

Partitioning for OLTP, in Oracle and in PostgreSQL Partitioning is usually meant for the data warehousing, but it has its uses in OLTP as well. One possible use case is the data life cycle. If we partition data by datetime, we can remove old data j…

Partitioning comes with tradeoffs. Some database engines try to address those, and some do not.

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This surly king by Bada Shanren 八大山人 (aka Zhu Da 朱耷, 1626-1705) remains the best ever to do it

Nixon romances Mao in Apr 1972

Hatoful Boyfriend but Nixon & Mao is a helluva thing.

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"Organizations are not limited by typing speed. They are limited by decision-making, coordination, and clarity. Even if implementation becomes ten times faster, unclear requirements will still slow everything down."

When does lgwr transition from single to scalable mode?

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New blog: Testing the Datadog Explain Plan Visualizer with Oracle execution plans

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is Trump first Ottoman president?

>gilded everything

>retarded, constantly scheming sons

>a harem of slavic wives

>elaborate headgear

>at war with Persia

I have to confess, I'm somewhere between steps 3 and 6.

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📝 "Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet"

Today is the day--beyond excited to share the first release of #Hardwood, a new parser for the Apache #Parquet file format, optimized for minimal dependencies and great performance.

👉 www.morling.dev/blog/hardwoo...

“Andrew … the cows have come home.”

“Andrew … the cows have come home.”

Book cover of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition". It has a similar wild boar on the cover as the first edition, but it uses O'Reilly's new cover design, and the boar is now slightly colourised.

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅

(BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

European airlines call for scrapping of Qatar deal after top official’s dismissal Lufthansa, Air France-KLM and SAS raise concerns after EU civil servant sacked over corruption allegations

Now would you look at it, Henrik Hololei is in the news again:
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The ultimate tempo playlist from Runna. Mostly contains stuff I try not to listen to, like Avicii, Beyoncé.

Runna has created playlists that for me provide "please, make it stop!!!1!" type of motivation. One of the playlists even contains ABBA. But weirdly, didn't spot any c- or K-pop.

Inevitably, their affair ended: Howard worried excessively about what the pack would think, and Agnes simply ate the flowers.

Inevitably, their affair ended: Howard worried excessively about what the pack would think, and Agnes simply ate the flowers.

After a decade of planning, editing, delays due to my own busyness, further editing and waiting for 23c, the release of 26ai and my pre-retirement finally unblocked the situation. I have agreed with Apress to publish the third edition of Troubleshooting Oracle Performance in 2026. #TOP3

A report from this retreat is now available. It's a good, thoughtful summary of how AI is changing software engineering. It avoids breathless hype, but it doesn't bury the head in the sand either. www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/...

“C’mon! You’ll miss the fun! … All the lemmings are going down to the beach!”

“C’mon! You’ll miss the fun! … All the lemmings are going down to the beach!”

“Hold it right there, Charles! ... Not on our first date, you don’t!”

“Hold it right there, Charles! ... Not on our first date, you don’t!”

From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface | 1Password The same capabilities that make OpenClaw a groundbreaking tool also make it an urgent security risk. This blog contains confirmed examples of agent skills being used as malware vectors, and advice on ...

1Password not mincing words here:

"If you are experimenting with OpenClaw, do not do it on a company device. Full stop."

"If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately."

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This is surreal in so many levels. From people giving AI bot access to their private data, to bots creating a parody of human social networks with shared fictional context.

Oh, and how do you monetize the bot social network? By selling ads to the bots and by occasional prompt injection attack?