Christoph Wille

If I ever become Ruler of the World, I'll shut down AWS us-east-1 every couple of years just to see who is dependent on it.

YouTube video by Cloud Native Days Austria Why DevEx Matters

The talk recording from @lauratacho.com at Cloud Native Days Austria is available, highly recommended to watch (AI minus BS) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ1F...

This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to su...

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability.
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

However, companies will start hiring again simply because work needs to get done, and they can't get that work done cost-effectively with vibe coding and no people. They'll have to pay through the nose for those programmers, but that's just poetic justice. It's fine by me.
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Is there an updated NuGet/Source Code for Microsoft.Web.Deployment? - Microsoft Q&A Package in question: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Web.Deployment/ We are using it in a C# application to deploy to App Service - that "idea" is not something we came up with, but lifted fr...

This learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer... is a prime example of unhelpful copy paste of AI slop. AI rephrasing my question and the "support guy" not giving a shit. #dotnet #Microsoft #Azure

Have You Been Workslopped Yet? AI is making you clean up your colleague's mess. Here's what should you do about it.

Business is rapidly achieving peak bullshit.
decision.substack.com/p/have-you-b...

How many folks have actually experienced a CEO or manager pressuring them to use AI in a way that's dumb or out of touch?

🤗 Use Hugging Face Inference Providers with GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Use Hugging Face Inference Providers with GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code huggingface.co/docs/inferen...

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance impr...

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is now available for download. Check out the announcement and try it out for yourself!

devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

YouTube video by The Pragmatic Engineer Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho

If you haven't yet, make sure to watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHHl...

YouTube video by CloudFest Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It

Cory Doctorow at CF25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-...

How To Argue With An AI Booster Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents. This is my longest newsletter - a 16,000-word-long opus - and if you like...

Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future.

www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see Independent AI researcher Johann Rehberger (previously) has had an absurdly busy August. Under the heading The Month of AI Bugs he has been publishing one report per day across an …

Took some time today to catch up with Johann Rehberger's Month of AI Bugs and wow... 15 examples so far of major prompt injection vulnerabilities in products including ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Amp, Devin, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and Google Jules simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/...

Microsoft exec imagines future Windows 'actually looking at your screen' and using AI to get things done easily - a computing utopia, or a bone-chilling nightmare? Others may welcome AI and cloud-powered advances, though

THAT www.techradar.com/computing/wi... will actually even make me consider leaving Windows behind.

Requiem for a 10x Engineer Dream People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just l...

People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just lying. Or both.

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How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation? An experiment to test the limits of autonomous code generation by LLMs

We recently ran an experiment to explore how far GenAI can currently be pushed toward autonomously developing high-quality, up-to-date software without human intervention, and gather observations about where it breaks down.

martinfowler.com/articles/pus...

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too maybe it's anti-innovation, maybe it's just avoiding hype. But one thing is clear, I'm completely done with hearing about AI.

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

A #csharp 14.0 feature to expect in the next #ILSpy preview for #dotnet 10 is extension members (not final, see github.com/icsharpcode/...)

Description by Claude Sonnet 4: This is a whimsical illustration of a white duck or goose riding a red bicycle. The bird has an orange beak and is positioned on the bike seat, with its orange webbed feet gripping what appears to be chopsticks or utensils near the handlebars. The bicycle has a simple red frame with two wheels, and there are motion lines behind it suggesting movement. The background is a soft blue-gray color, giving the image a clean, minimalist cartoon style. The overall design has a playful, humorous quality to it.

Description by Claude Sonnet 4: This image shows a cute, minimalist illustration of a snowman riding a bicycle. The snowman has a simple design with a round white body, small black dot for an eye, and an orange rectangular nose (likely representing a carrot). The snowman appears to be in motion on a black bicycle with two wheels, with small orange arrows near the pedals suggesting movement. There are curved lines on either side of the image indicating motion or wind. The overall style is clean and whimsical, using a limited color palette of white, black, orange, and gray against a light background.

Pretty decent pelicans from the new GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air models. Both models are MIT licensed, released by Chinese AI lab Z.ai this morning
simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/...

This preview is actually the precursor to our discussions on overload resolutions in Vienna at our dev days github.com/icsharpcode/...

Aspire Roadmap (2025 → 2026) · dotnet aspire · Discussion #10644 Hi everyone 💫 We’ve had so much fun building, learning, and Aspirifying with you over the last year. As many of you have noticed, there are lots of exciting things in the works, and we figured it w...

Aspire is growing up.

Better local dev workflows.
Testing you can see.
Polyglot by default.
A clearer path to deployment.
We just published the roadmap—come take a look:

👉 github.com/dotnet/aspir...

#aspire #dotnet

Blue sky, green grass, yellow sun, a cloud, and a quite a good bicycle (albeit with two pairs of pedals) with spokes. The pelican is a bit wonky and isn't quite sitting on it, also you cannot quite tell it is a pelican.

This one has no background details at all, the bicycle wheels have no spoke and the pelican is overlapping the bike without sitting on it. It has a better beak but also has a surprising red wattle hanging down.

Two significant new model releases from Alibaba Qwen in the past two days: yesterday Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, today Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct - both Apache 2 licensed, both very impressive

My notes and SVG pelicans: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/... and simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/...

C# 14 extension members; AKA extension everything: Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 3 In this post I look at the C#14 extension members feature. I show how to convert extension methods to the new syntax and how to add new types of extension.

Blogged: C# 14 extension members; AKA extension everything - Exploring the .NET 10 preview

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In this post I look at the C#14 extension members feature. I show how to convert extension methods to the new syntax and how to add new types of extension

#dotnet #csharp

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the opposite.…

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds

Agile meets Architecture Agile meets Architecture is the conference bridging agile software development and software architecture since 2022.

🚀 Save the Date: Agile Meets Architecture 2026
Agility meets modern software architecture – let’s shape the future together!
🗓 March 10–11, 2026
📍 KulturBrauerei, Berlin
📝 The Call for Papers opens in August!
👉 Stay tuned for program updates: www.agile-meets-architecture.com/2026/home

A language model built for the public good This summer, EPFL and ETH Zurich will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), t...

This summer, EPFL and ETH Zurich will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence. More: bit.ly/451vBrR

OpenID for Verifiable Presentations 1.0 is now final!

This is the core presentation protocol used with the Digital Credentials API.

openid.net/specs/openid...

#dc #oid4vp #vdc #mdl #vc #sdjwt #eudiw #dcapi #digitalcredentials

I still care about the code Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

NEW POST

Even with LLMs, @birgitta410.bsky.social still cares about the code: “LLMs are NOT compilers, interpreters, transpilers or assemblers of natural language, they are inferrers.

martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

"Fundamental" truths about software:

- Code is liability

- The more code you have, the more bugs you tend to have

- The more complex a system, the more important architecture becomes

- Writing maintainable code is a lot more effort than just getting it to work

A new update to the #SQLServer Execution Plan Reference!
* Added all the different names of the Result and Language Element operators to the list of all operators.
* Added a change log at the end of each page.
* Various other changes
sqlserverfast.com/epr/change-l...