There’s no point at which turning your brain off will work There’s no point at which turning your brain off will work | Patreon In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs1. They … Read more
For the last week, much of society has been focused on the idea that there’s a “more than 10 percent chance” AI could kill all humans within the next decade. This has spawned thousands of takes about the potential existential … Read more
Big week! We just finished moving the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off of Fandom. It’s still my favorite thing in the world to help wiki editors grab control of their projects and make them awesome (and not covered with a … Read more
TL;DR: Metaphors like “a sinking ship” are often used to describe codebases, but are misleading. A business will sink long before code quality reaches a hypothetical floor. Technical debt has no bankruptcy, no clean reset, so metaphors that imply an … Read more
There’s no reason for software to be slow anymore There’s no reason for software to be slow anymore | Patreon The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code … Read more
Uber infamously runs thousands of microservices. They ended up with so many services because hundreds of engineers wanted to deploy on their own schedule, with clear ownership of their code, instead of waiting in one giant merge queue. For decades … Read more
Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What’s the point … Read more
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.: The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes … Read more