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“To master these tools you need to learn how to get them to prove their changes work as well. …#
“To master these tools you need to learn how to get them to prove their changes work as well.
This looks exactly the same as the process I described above: they need to be able to manually test their changes as they work, and they need to be able to build automated tests that guarantee the change will continue to work in the future.”
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/
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“These organizations treat LLMs as an opportunity to increase pace over all else, seemingly wit…#
“These organizations treat LLMs as an opportunity to increase pace over all else, seemingly without regard for setting direction. Urgency is certainly important, and LLMs absolutely afford an opportunity to do work more quickly — but that pace must not come at the expense of our responsibility, rigor, empathy and teamwork.”
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
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“This talk not only discusses the failure itself, but also the incident response, and what made…#
“This talk not only discusses the failure itself, but also the incident response, and what made the incident response more difficult. This was my favorite part of the talk, and it’s the first time I can remember anybody from Amazon talking about the details of incident response like this.”
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/14/aws-reinvent-talk-on-their-oct-25-incident/
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“Over-engineering is the mistake of adopting a more complex solution than a problem calls for, …#
“Over-engineering is the mistake of adopting a more complex solution than a problem calls for, but more often than not, that’s due to poor judgement about the problem being solved rather than what solution to apply.”
https://systemsapproach.org/2025/12/15/second-system-syndrome/