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Mastodon - 2025-05-22

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Matt Weagle
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Matt Weagle

Toots from 2025-05-22
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@raganwald @tastapod Something…
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@raganwald @tastapod Something like that…

xkcd image titled “Current Day” where the unstable structure is held up by a critical piece. That critical piece is labeled “This fence is useless. Get rid of it.” alluding to Chesterton’s Fence principle.

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“However, as I’ve grown in my career I’ve arrived at a fuzzier definition: legacy code is c…
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“However, as I’ve grown in my career I’ve arrived at a fuzzier definition: legacy code is code not in living knowledge. The codebase or even a particular module does not exist in totality inside the heads of the people who work on it.”

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2025-05-15-tla-dev-status/

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“My pre-AI self would never believe I would have to write this rule, but it’s true: you can…
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“My pre-AI self would never believe I would have to write this rule, but it’s true: you can’t skip reading the research. Not just to catch hallucinations, but to understand the topic, have a point of view, and be able to judge the AI’s work.”

https://www.animalz.co/blog/ai-addiction/

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“The candidates who have navigated down-titling best seem to have a different orientation: They…
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“The candidates who have navigated down-titling best seem to have a different orientation: They’re focused on how they want to grow next, not what title they want to hold.”

https://jackdanger.com/pyramid-shaped-career/

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“So, with that out of the way, here is one of my current best guesses.” <https://skamille.me…
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“So, with that out of the way, here is one of my current best guesses.”

https://skamille.medium.com/things-i-currently-believe-about-ai-and-tech-employment-3e712df1dc51

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Some on the ground reports:

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