Obviously the essay from Peter Naur keeps popping up lately. It feels like an important piece, especially in the current atmosphere of vibe coding. This article lays out quite well why vibe coding is the opposite of what we should be doing.

This is concerning, hopefully the amount of issues which get through will be limited.

Very good essay on why the developer profession is not going away. On the contrary we need to double down on essential skills and put in the work. This is long overdue anyway.

This fantasy regularly comes back. Yet, the tools evolve, might improve some things but the core difficulties of programming don't change. At each hype cycle our industry over promises and under delivers, this is unnecessary.

One more example that it should be used for NLP tasks, not knowledge related tasks. The model makers are consuming so much data indiscriminately that they can't easily fine comb everything to remove the poisoned information.

The OpenClaw instances running around are really a security hazard...

This planned giant data center by Meta shows how the big players are grabbing land to satisfy their hubris. So much waste all around.

Interesting point, there are indeed different types of "debt" in the systems we build. It likely help to be more precise about their nature, and indeed assisted coding might help grow a particular kind of debt.

Still a bit mysterious but could be interesting if they really deliver.

I was so waiting for someone motivated enough to publish a review of that paper. I indeed threw it away as weak after reading it. Thanks for taking the time to write this up! This is good scientific inquiry... and it shows there were interesting findings in the paper that the authors decided to just ignore.

Another example of how much of a problem this is for some projects. Of course it is compounded by having so many projects on GitHub, this pushes people to try to farm for activity to attempt to make their resume look good. This is sad.

Are we on the verge to a push toward a mainframe based future? I really hope not, but for sure the hardware prices surging won't make things easy.

Useful article summarising the current state of the AI madness trying to see what's useful in there and where the risks are.

I guess when you unleash agents unsupervised their ethos tend to converge on the self-entitled asshole contributors? This raise real questions, this piece explains the situation quite well.

Clearly Free Software projects will have to find a way to deal with LLM generated contributions. A very large percentage of them is leading to subtle quality issues. This also very taxing on the reviewers, and you don't want to burn them out.

Let's not forget the ethical implications of those tools indeed. Too often people put them aside simply on the "oooh shiny toys" or the "I don't want to be left behind" reactions. Both lead to a very unethical situation.

Interesting analysis. It gives a balanced view on the possible scenarios around the AI hype.

Very in depth review of the mess of a Matrix home server vide coded at Cloudflare... all the way to the blog announcing it. Unsurprisingly this didn't go well and they had to cover their tracks several times. The response from the Matrix foundation is a bit underwhelming, it's one thing to be welcoming, it's another to turn a blind eye to such obvious failures. This doesn't reflect well on both Cloudflare and the Matrix Foundation I'm afraid.

Indeed, the tests are most likely the part you want to code yourself. Otherwise you loose most benefits of TDD.

Interesting point. As we see the collapse of public forums due to the usage of AI chatbots, we're in fact witnessing a large enclosure movement. And it'll reinforce itself as the vendors are training on the chat sessions. What used to be in public will be hidden.