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Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved...

"Replacing method calls and module separations with network invocations and service partitioning within a single, coherent team and application is madness in almost all cases."

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Václav Havel’s 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless is eerily relevant today In his recent speech at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney drew on Havel’s book challenging compliance in an age of untruthfulness. What does it say?

"Tyranny is challenged not by seizing power, but by depriving falsehood of its audience."

theconversation.com/vaclav-havel...

AI makes interfaces disposable | Chris Loy I recently became a parent for the first time, as my wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby boy into our lives in January of this year.

"Enabling users to build their own personal interfaces that extend services they love can be a great driver of product stickiness, and businesses can encourage this level of interaction without risking revenue loss."

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"Original ideas are the result of the very work you're offloading on LLMs. Having humans in the loop doesn't make the AI think more like people, it makes the human thought more like AI output."

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The o16g It was never about the code.

"Speed is dangerous without brakes. Make risk a blocking function. If the risk is unknown or unmitigated, the line stops. Do not hide danger in a report; encode it as a gate."

o16g.com #softwareengineering #developerexperience #safety #speed #andon

Local governments provide proof that polarization is not inevitable Partisan debates are less heated at the local level, providing lessons that might help calm the waters nationally.

"Philanthropists and even states might invest in local journalism that covers pragmatic governance rather than partisan conflict. More cities and counties could adopt changes in election law that would de-emphasize party labels where they add little inf.…

The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesday src= alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in San Francisco is talking about t

"The math found one metric curving toward a pole on a specific day at a specific millisecond: the rate at which humans are discovering emergent AI behaviors. The other four metrics are linear. The machines are improving steadil..."

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How to effectively write quality code with AI AI is rarely optional anymore, but how can you still be proud of your craft? Discover the workflow to effectively write high-quality, robust code using AI tools.

"Aim to reduce the complexity of the generated code where possible.
Each avoidable line of code is costing energy, money and probability of future unsuccessful AI tasks."

buff.ly/bDWRWcz #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience

US military leaders pressure Anthropic to bend Claude safeguards Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yield

I am concerned about every text-generation company Hegseth ISN’T attacking.

Congress should launch an immediate investigation.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Something Big Is Happening A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

"The inexplicable sense of knowing what the right call is that people always said AI would never have. This model has it, or something close enough that the distinction is starting not to matter."

buff.ly/8bkVzgm #ai #taste

Martin Fowler Was Right: Microservices Suck* A pragmatic view on Amazon’s unexpected stance on serverless microservice architecture.

"Always be refactoring. If you touch the code, and you can improve it, improve it, but never optimise early."

buff.ly/osZvbaf #refactoring #classic

Chris Gregori Personal site and blog

"Real engineering lies in the abstractions and the architecture. It's about knowing how to structure a system that lasts, understanding why a specific rate-limiting strategy is necessary, knowing how to manage a distributed cache..."

chrisgregori.dev #ai #softwareengine…

How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick.

"Since AI models have no actual agency (despite being called agents) and are not people who can be held accountable for mistakes, human oversight is key."

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The Podcast ‘Productivity’ Trap Maybe don’t fill every available silence with the sound of people talking.

"Trying to make every listening minute count inevitably becomes counterproductive. The internal pressure to optimize free time and always multitask is ultimately exhausting, not enlightening."

buff.ly/uk4kJ4Y #podcast #content #inbox #productivity

Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders gro...

"Each answer leads to more questions. The accumulated decisions, edge cases, and interactions create genuine complexity that no tool or language can eliminate. Someone must think through these scenario..."

buff.ly/P80mIrm #ai #knowledgework #softwareengineering #replac…

Bet On Growth When something suddenly starts getting good, the question is not, “How good is it?”, the valuable question to ask is, “How long will it improve?”

"Growth rate matters far more than absolute values. If I'm bigger than you but you're growing faster the end is just a matter of time."

buff.ly/iZDpfMe #big #vs #quick #classic

"If I had one tip to give to managers, it would be to make it extremely clear to engineers that team efficiency is more important than individual efficiency. Every team member should understand that the primary m..."

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"If I had one tip to give to managers, it would be to make it extremely clear to engineers that team efficiency is more important than individual efficiency. Every team member should understand that the primary m..."

buff.ly/DPSqNa3 #softwareengineering #management #cl…

"Even if I wanted to reject AI and go back to the days where the Thinker's needs were met by coding, the Builder in me would struggle with the inefficiency."

buff.ly/fjoZENd #ai #knowledgework #dukka

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

"On a quiz that covered concepts they'd used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades. Using AI sped up the task slightly, b..."

buff.ly/BNsyuOC #ai #coding #lea…

The Names They Call Themselves *Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of...

"The job won't be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make the names they call themselves universally acknowledged slurs."

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.

"Not only does an agent not have the ability to evolve a specification over a multi-week period as it builds out its lower components, it also makes decisions upfront that it later doesn'..."

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Am I too stupid to vibe code? Read to the end for Dr. House In 2025

"One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won't understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you've done, but maybe you'll have something. Just a few more dollars f..."

www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-s... #ai #vibecoding #slotma…

First, Make Me Care Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting,...

"If you were telling a friend in a rush why you were ex­cited to write this down, what would you say? Just say that! Just… start with the in­ter­est­ing part first."

buff.ly/YkWsMOv #priority #writing #design

How I estimate work as a staff software engineer There’s a kind of polite fiction at the heart of the software industry. It goes something like this:

"I don't 'break down the work to determine how long it will take'. My management chain already knows how long they want it to take. My job is to figure out the set of software approaches that match that estimate. Som..."

buff.ly/JD2o2vy #softwareengineering #scope #pla…

I'm Done with Unit and Integration Tests | Ted M. Young What's the difference between them? Why does it matter? I discuss why I use the terms 'I/O-Free' and 'I/O-Dependent' tests instead.

"Over the past few years, I've become more frustrated with the terms 'Unit' and 'Integration' because I have to explain what 'Unit' and 'Integration' mean before I can use them."

buff.ly/WxDGtwQ #automatedtesting #unit #vs #integration #naming #classic

TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents I found a stranger texting my 12-year-old on a 'kid-safe' Gabb phone. Parental controls are broken.

"Instead I get a maze, complex enough that when something goes wrong, I'm at fault for a tooltip I didn't hover over, a blog post I didn't read, a submenu I didn't find. Maybe that's by design. Maybe it's neglect. I don't know."

buff.ly/t1XcOgm #parenting #ux

The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think … Stop stressing about self‑improvement or waiting until you’re on top of everything. This year give yourself permission to prioritise pleasure

"If you want to win the war for attention, don't try to say 'no' to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say 'yes' to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying l..."

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... #attention #happiness #…

"People have been trained to be abused by software and by hardware, to ignore their needs, to accept any change as inevitable."

buff.ly/FWbLSEs #ux #enshittification

"How do I feel, about all the code I wrote that was ingested by LLMs? I feel great to be part of that, because I see this as a continuation of what I tried to do all my life: democratizing code, systems, knowledge."

buff.ly/2nktAef #ai #foss