Birgitta Böckeler at Thoughtworks spent four weeks running AI coding models locally on Apple Silicon and wrote up what she learned in two detailed memos: factors affecting viability and practical e...

I thought it interesting to take a look at Microsoft’s Waza and compare it to whatever else exists for evaluating AI agents and skills. That request landed at a good moment. I have been quietly bui...

I have access to both GitHub Copilot and IBM Bob through work, and every now and then I do the same slightly unfair but very revealing thing: I give them roughly the same prompt and see what comes ...

I have just read Salvatore Sanfilippo’s post, Control the ideas, not the code, and I think it is one of the sharper pieces yet on what AI is actually changing in software engineering. Not because ...

There is a course on ergo.org called Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept that I have been sitting with since I read it. I think it is one of the more interesting things I have come a...

Joe Beda’s post, The animatronic rubber duck, is excellent. Not because it claims AI has become a magical collaborator, but because it finds a better description for one of the most useful ways to ...

I have just read Lars Faye’s post, Agentic Coding is a Trap, and it is worth your time. Not because I agree with every implication in the strongest possible form, but because it names a tension th...

There is a genre of technical content I find more useful than almost anything else. Not the conference talk that describes a finished system as if it arrived fully formed. Not the blog post that ex...

I have been using HashiCorp Packer to build machine images for a few related problems, and one of the more interesting ones has been the question of how to make container images available quickly a...

I read The Rise of the Bullshittery by Marius and it hit a nerve for all the right reasons. The post argues that we have built a professional environment where appearing competent is often rewarde...