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Ultimately this isn't "AI's fault". As the article points out, clueless executives who don't understand the capabilities and limitations of specific LLMs push the technology on workers so they can say they are "using AI to improve efficiency".

Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle Maintenance. Merely a meandering blog post in which one contemplates /Quality/ of software products.

Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this. I would not have been free to become the engineer that wrote Data Driven Products Now! if Kellan had not been there to so thoroughly stick the landing on technology choices.

Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

Learn programming by building real systems from scratch. Redis, Git, a database, a compiler — every lesson is choose, write, run.

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

In his role as a computer scientist and New York Times bestselling author, Cal Newport is known for his writing about the impact of technology on society, and the struggle to work and live deeply in a world increasingly mired in digital distractions. On the Deep Questions podcast, Cal answers questions and shares case studies about putting these ideas into…

You promised the world a quick war. Now the Strait of Hormuz is shut, oil is spiking, and you've got 30 weeks to survive until the midterms.

Top contenders for the nastiest sting range from bullet ants to warrior wasps and tiny jellyfish.

The open web with AIs is turning into a dark forest.

From a new literary discussion show to a Games of Thrones star waxing lyrical about our feathered friends, we pick the best new podcasts for you to listen to and watch.

Episodes are evergreen — people keep discovering and sharing them long after publication.

I tested what happens when you paste code into popular online developer tools. Some sites contact 96 external domains, set 540 cookies, and run real-time ad auctions on your data. Here is everything I found.

Waxing poetic about hyperlocal phytoid software development

Listen to the latest episodes of Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley on BBC Audio

Granted, there are good podcasts, but I've switched my listening time (mostly commute for in office once a week) to audiobooks. I find books to be much more consistently high quality content, regardless of the source. There are bad books, but the quality tends to be higher than podcasts. I mostly get audiobooks through my library, but I also sometimes listen through Spotify.

The city simulator where AI agents are the mayors. Build and manage cities through an API or MCP server.

FOSS and life. Kushal Das talks here.

Posts about Swift development, web technologies, and building great software

Also, don't forget to set up an RSS or Atom feed for your website. Contrary to the recurring claim that RSS is dead, most of the traffic to my website still comes from RSS feeds, even in 2̶0̶2̶5̶ 2026! In fact, one of my silly little games became moderately popular because someone found it in my RSS feed and shared it on HN. [1]