mgrig.bsky.social

It's Halloween. So here's a story about the horror of replacing your developers with AI:
accu.org/journals/ove...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Inside a Cello
Charles Brooks Photography

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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 hidden trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts A progressive rollout refers to the act of rolling out some new functionality gradually rather than all at once. This means that, when you initially deploy it, the change only impacts a fraction of…

New blog post on the trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/09/13/t...

Putin would have never launched drones into a NATO country if Trump was President!

The Stochastic Code Monkey Theorem - Stephen Diehl Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future

Good article, largely saying similar to others but saying it well (better than I can)

Book called legacy code, first aid kit

I've loved the digital edition, but I always like a physical editions of the books I've enjoyed a lot!

If you have to deal with legacy codebase, this book is full of actionable and useful tips!

Thanks a lot @nicoespeon.com for writing this!

So yes, AI is useful in the hands of a skilled and skeptical subject matter expert but we are noobs in most topics :-(

The increase in workload associated with failure demand of AI-generated code seems to be a blind spot for many adopting AI into their workflows.

Brandolini's law seems to apply: the amount of effort needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than needed to produce it.

Image of a circle labeled "Proton", one about he same size labeld "Neutron", and other much smaller labeled "Electron", and a fourth even smaller labeled "Close-Ad-Button"

Red wooden structure that says Dog Library, with two shelves full of very good sticks.

Portland is a library town.

Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein from normal. Rather than discussing the historicity of Tolkien’s world or adaptations of it, …

This week on the blog! We are talking Tolkien, particularly his moral vision, by a study in contrasts of 'failures' - and why Celebrimbor falls whereas Boromir 'conquers' (and how Peter Jackson gets this right, but Rings of Power gets it wrong).

acoup.blog/2025/04/18/c...

Bonnie Tyler: I need a hero!
Me: ok, what kind?
Bonnie Tyler: He’s gotta be strong!
Me: That’s reasonable
Bonnie Tyler: He’s gotta be fast!
Me: also valid, I feel like a there’s a weird one-
Bonnie Tyler: He’s gotta be fresh from the fight!
Me: there it is

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Good news for Mac users. But what about all us Linux users who have been waiting forever?

I am a linux user with a paid proton drive account. Care to let me know how to automate my backups to proton drive?

@proton.me

Tweet by @DataRepublican: "In my initial run, which processed the first 60,000 rows, I did not find these awards—my hard drive overheated long before I could complete a full pass through the database. In a later run, which I referenced in another post, I did identify two such awards. That discrepancy is a matter of sampling size, not an issue with the query itself. I’ll now attempt a full run, which should capture the awards you found."

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"

Trump names cryptocurrencies in strategic reserve; prices spike Analysts say the crypto market needs a reason to move higher, such as indications that the Federal Reserve plans to cut interest rates or a clear pro-crypto regulatory framework from the Trump administration.

What a shame. Now we have US tax payers propping up cryptocurrencies. This is one of the biggest grifts of all time.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru....

My favorite quip from the late education analyst Jerry Bracey: "There is a growing technology of testing that now permits us to do in nanoseconds things that we shouldn't be doing at all."

You’re missing your near misses FAA data shows 30 near-misses at Reagan Airport – NPR, Jan 30, 2025 The amount of attention an incident gets is proportional to the severity of the incident: the greater the impact to the organizat…

New blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/02/01/y...

Photo of FBI hq

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

LLMs mit Spring AI integrieren Die gesamte Welt spricht aktuell über Generative KI und Large Language Models (LLMs). Und auch wenn ich persönlich das Thema aktuell als zu sehr gehypt empfinde, sollten wir solche Trends nicht komple...

My latest magazine article 🇩🇪 about integrating #LLM into #Java based #Spring applications via #SpringAI can now be read online at www.innoq.com/de/articles/... It’s mostly about the basics but shows some RAG, Function Calling and Observability, too. Hope you enjoy it.

Why Gelsinger was wrong for Intel
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/08/w...

2024 Contingent Book List When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.

Our sixth annual list of books by historians working off the tenure track.

YouTube video by USENIX SREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa - Are We Really Engineers?

My #SRECon talk is now out! Watch me destroy some earbuds on stage and learn how software engineering compares to other branches of engineering

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNeS...

Just discovered this SAFe Delusion website.
With case studies on orgs that abandoned SAFe.

This is gold!

A client brought that to my attention.

safedelusion.com