I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
28.02.2026 16:09
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Interesting how quickly everyone is now becoming a lifelong TDD practitioner now it appears essential for GenAI assisted development.
The reality is that only a tiny fraction of the industry have genuinely been practicing TDD in the 20 plus years since Kent Beck first coined it.
Continuous Integration is not only about the code, but integrating the drifts in the mental model of the system across the team (making it shared) as often as possible.
It's also way better if the mental model is integrated even before the code on the main branch is (pair/mob programming).
My team measures speed, not velocity, because we have no idea what direction we're going in…
"AI has removed the developer bottleneck"
If developers really were your bottleneck, throwing developers at a problem would actually have worked in the past 20 years
I suspect many of those four million people are natives who vote for him.
If you want to know how to approach designing and building complex systems efficiently and effectively, then you should listen to my latest Software Engineering Radio interview: Murat Erder and Eoin Woods on Continuous Architecture. se-radio.net/2026/01/se-r...
But, compliance! Somehow, a welcome justification for all the superfluous gates in our software delivery process, and to embarrassingly uphold the unreasonable delays. (1/3)
Business people, if you think you're going to be handing vibe-coded prototypes to engineering teams and saying "Make it production-ready", think again.
We're not bricklayers, and you're not architects.
Come to us with business problems, not half-baked solutions.
For years, commentators would say far-right politicians were "just saying what we're all thinking".
But that "silent majority" was always a lie.
*This* is what most people are actually thinking, and - for the first time in a long time - a political leader is daring to say it out loud.
This is truly brilliant!👏👏✨
I wondered why I disliked Trump so much……🤭
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Anything that inconveniences a right wing populist is censorship, part 1000.
This depraved prick uses that term bc it puts his enemies on the defensive. They cower.
Fact-checking is censorship. Labeling is censorship. TRANSPARENCY is censorship.
Now, “no nonconsensual nudes” is censorship.
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🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.
looking up the source of quotes, whether for a book or a video script, is great for figuring out when a quote everyone "knows" and has repeated for ages is actually just weird bullshit someone else made up
"Coding is no longer the bottleneck".
So what you're saying is that NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
The year is 2025, and people are saying "Hey, what if we specified the whole thing in detail up-front?" again.
Tell me you haven't actually tried that without telling me you haven't actually tried that.
Please. Everyone.
STOP publishing AI pieces that are this credulous and confidently, comically incorrect about language models
It is HURTING people. REALLY
This is the worst take that I have seen in any major outlet, and - frankly - feels a bit like it was written by AI
Vibe-coding tip: one way to find out if your prompts are precise enough is to run them through a compiler.
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The people this is pandering to will no doubt be delighted to find themselves competing in a job market where every migrant knows English to a much higher standard than they do.
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My latest Software Engineering Radio episode is out. This time is with Florian Gilcher on Rust for Safety-Critical Systems. Among other things, we discuss Ferrocene, an open-source qualified Rust compiler toolchain for safety- and mission-critical systems. se-radio.net/2025/10/se-r...
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With all the GenAI buzz we tend to forget the value of 100% correct deterministic tools. Thank you Rust clippy!
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It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
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Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it.
This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
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If you want evidence that using LLMs reduces your cognitive abilities, I offer folks claiming that "A.I." means they will only need senior developers going forward.
They seem to have become incapable of even the most basic causal reasoning.
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
