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Just to say that every age-verification is an identity verification.

This creates the long held, never-possible dream of surveillance agencies everywhere of a full, Govt-backed record of Internet habits linked to ID.

Thank you for everything you do. Keep going!

Will AI Code Create MOUNTAINS Of Technical Debt? | @trishagee.bsky.social & @stevesmithtech.bsky.social

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Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World Every day I seem to run into yet another post with someone solemnly opining that “writing code has never been the hardest part of software engineering. And hey, that’s smashing.

Disposable code is here to stay, but durable code is what runs the world, and it isn't going anywhere either. www.honeycomb.io/blog/disposa...

(Engineers who are freaking out about their jobs going away can stop now. 💜)

Published an update to: On the Benefits of Trunk-based development

Added the missing:

- enables incremental software engineering skills
- encourages refactoring
- this has worked for regulated industries and large IT systems

thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...

YouTube video by GOTO Conferences 3X Explore, Expand, Extract • Kent Beck • YOW! 2018

I can't believe I haven't come across this talk by @kentbeck.com before. It has so much explanatory power.
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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
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a gentle reminder: AI is not science

Should have bought me that helicopter I asked for

YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering Learn To LOVE Your Legacy Code

Learn To LOVE Your Legacy Code | @stevesmithtech.bsky.social

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FinOps was meaningless on arrival

If that photo doesn't scare people away, nothing will

Signal Chief Meredith Whittaker Sounds Alarm On Agentic A.I.’s Privacy Threat Signal Foundation President Meredith Whittaker warns that agentic A.I. could breach app-level security, threatening privacy for millions of users.

Yes, I did sound the alarm on agentic AI's privacy threat, and rightly so.

observer.com/2025/07/sign...

We asked our expert presenter's to each give us 5 pieces of advice that Software Engineers can TRY TODAY in order to help them build better software, faster.

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@stevesmithtech.bsky.social
@stevesmithtech.bsky.social

"It’s about living a meaningful life, and acting with integrity, and building things of enduring value instead of tearing them down"

Thank you Charity! ❤️

We're all going to be toiling in salt mines, telling ourselves more leisure time is just around the corner

Futurist Adam Dorr on how robots will take our jobs: ‘We don’t have long to get ready – it’s going to be tumultuous’ Researcher says tech could replace nearly all human labour within 20 years and societies urgently need to prepare

I just want @ethicistforhire.bsky.social on speed dial www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Vibe coding has been a thing since before I was born. "I want to build a thing because I can". It's just faster now, that's all

Meritocracy is a lie

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

You can't separate the art from the artist

Agentic AI is on line one

On my way to Agile On The Beach! ⛱️

Not uncommon in b2b

The video isn't on the ncrafts.io website anymore :(

@newcrafts.bsky.social what's happened to your 2019 videos, I need them back!

You talked about cyborg sex in that Newcrafts Paris 2019 keynote for longer than anyone thought necessary

No predictive model could foresee this degree of national self-sabotage - an act of willful decline that transcends political theory.

This how I know black folk and white folk live in different realities. Because I coulda told you in my teens that some people in this country have so much hate in their hearts that they’d burn this country to the ground just to be rulers over ashes, if it meant people they don’t like get hurt more.

Outsiders? Oh dear

Accountability is the price of trust