Amir Mohtasebi

I wish good and active software devs with real world experiences had more presence on podcasts and events surrounding the impact of agentic AI on the industry.

Celebrity engineers, managers, or CEOs are very present with their opinions and there is a great chance of self-fulfilling prophecy here.

Inverse Agentic-AI effect: I'm reading more than ever to get a deep understanding of what the hell is going on behind the scenes of each framework or lib.

I need to keep an army of rogue agents who think they know a lot (but they are delusional) on track with my precise prompts.

I had the same experience and worked so hard because I had no other choice (had to convince an employer I worth the work visa). But if you have an option, moderation wins in mid to long term. Health and having fun are as important.

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Lana says “Happy mid-July” 🔥🌺✨♋️ youtu.be/o_1aF54DO60?...

#hot #summer #night

Effectiveness, Efficiency, Productivity Using right words in the right context can solve a lot of misalignments. This is my attempt to document my opinionated understanding of some of the engineering management terminologies, and use them a...

I had to explain the differences between efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity to myself and others so many times that I decided to document it for future reference:

amir.dev/2025/07/12/e...

#productivity #efficiency #effectiveness #tech

Happy Winter solstice Australia.

Natalie Jane Parker.
'Silent Stare'
Barn Owl (Tyto Alba)

“… ELIZA effect was an important development in artificial intelligence, demonstrating the principle of using social engineering rather than explicit programming to pass a Turing test.”

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Beyond the Gang of Four: Practical Design Patterns for Modern AI Systems In this article, author Rahul Suresh discusses emerging AI patterns in the areas of prompting, responsible AI, user experience, AI-Ops, and optimization, with code examples for each design pattern.

A good reference for some design patterns for #AI Systems

www.infoq.com/articles/pra...

Rātapu: Sunday #aotearoa #newzealand

Asked #ChatGPT to recite a poem from #Rumi in Farsi. It spoke Farsi fluently. Very much wow.

“Listen to the reed how it tells a tale of separation, complaining about the pain of being apart.”

“بشنو از نی چون شکایت می‌کند، از جدایی‌ها حکایت می‌کند.”

Is the Internet's Business Model Finally Bust? (Weekly Roundup) Weekly Roundup 7 May, 2025: Matthew Prince makes a splash, OpenAI juices its benchmarks, 4o sycophant shows the need for post-deployment monitoring of behavioral risks, and more.

Important post by my colleagues at SSRC, Isobel Moure and Ilan Strauss:

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Veritasium: How Will AI Change Education? Derek Muller on the Future of Learning. YouTube video by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

How will #AI change Education?

www.youtube.com/live/PYeBGyX...

“Even among Silicon Valley critics, there was this idea that at the very least, you could trust that the statements they made about science and technology were true because they were experts in science and technology. That's not the case."

So much 🔥🔥🔥 in this!

Morality as Politics is Problematic Let’s Talk About Demoralising Politics. Why stepping away from moral purity narratives might help us save democracy—and each other.

Morality as Politics is Problematic
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Completely agree with this point:

“Clever engineers write clever code. Exceptional engineers write simple code.”

Back in when people wanted “ninjas”, I said I wanted to be/wanted to work with gardeners. Ninjas come in and leave a bloody mess in the morning. Gardeners patiently cultivate.

“if you're a company leader who sees a wave as large as the introduction of the computer coming and your thought is to "use less resources to do the same work", you're an uncreative hack and it's you who deserves to be fired.”

www.phillipcarter.dev/posts/llms-c...

Episode 13: The End of Programming As We Know It Podcast Episode · High Signal: Data Science | Career | AI · 27/03/2025 · 1h 23m

The end of programming as we know it.

My take is that: AI is another level of abstraction over programming that makes it more accessible to more people.

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Veritasium: How Will AI Change Education? Derek Muller on the Future of Learning. YouTube video by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

How Will AI Change Education?
www.youtube.com/live/PYeBGyX...

Tim O’Reilly and Reid Hoffman on Deepfakes, AI, and the American Economy - Selection from Tim O’Reilly and Reid Hoffman on Deepfakes, AI, and the American Economy [Video]

Tim O’Reilly and Reid Hoffman on Deepfakes, AI, and the American Economy

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Ethan Mollick’s 4 guiding principles for leading with AI The Wharton School professor outlines ways leaders can tap into the AI advantage to lead their teams safely and effectively.

1. Always invite #AI to the table
2. Be the “human in the loop”
3. Treat AI like a person (but remember it isn’t)
4. Assume this is the worst AI you’ll ever use

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Me when I'm three to six months behind:

Architecture advice process | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks One of the persistent challenges in large software teams is determining who makes the architectural decisions that shape the evolution of systems. The State of [...]

When I wrote about the #Thoughtworks #TechnologyRadar in my @oreilly.bsky.social book, "Facilitating Software Architecture" I didn't think that the core practice would get blipped, but there it is, in the latest edition: www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techni... 🎉 🎉🎉

@tintin's finished Cross|word For the Love of Dog

Good pizzomo today with references to Shahname Epic and Amanpour!! 🤔

h/t @livienna.bsky.social

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Ngahuru: Autumn #aotearoa #newzealand

Happy #Nowrooz, Persian new year, and Spring / Autumn Equinox! 🍂 🍃 ☀️

HashiCorp market cap declining over time

Some thoughts from the @redmonk.com team on the recent IBM M&A news. Come read our deal analysis on the @hashicorp.com merger and the @datastax.com acquisition announcement.

cc/ @sogrady.org @monkchips.com @kellyann.bsky.social

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Building Effective AI Agents | Anthropic Discover how Anthropic approaches the development of reliable AI agents. Learn about our research on agent capabilities, safety considerations, and technical framework for building trustworthy AI.

"One rule of thumb is to think about how much effort goes into human-computer interfaces (HCI), and plan to invest just as much effort in creating good agent-computer interfaces (ACI). Here are some thoughts on how to do so"

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#agents #ai #llm

Productivity tip: The person who leave a comment on a Google doc is accountable to resolving them.

That’s the tax of having an opinion!!

#doge

On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good Skype users will be able to move into Teams with their existing accounts.

How many great companies got acquired, mismanaged, and killed by microsoft over the last couple of decades?

The fact that they are still printing money tells you something is wrong with how our financial and technology world is structured.

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