Toots from 2026-05-26#
“That distinction is the difference between AI as a novelty and AI as part of an engineering syst…#
“That distinction is the difference between AI as a novelty and AI as part of an engineering system. We have also learned, sometimes painfully, that AI-generated work that nobody deeply understands can create expensive cleanup later.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-made-us-faster-problem-david-fowler-mgnzc/
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“AI now seems to make all of this pointless, doesn’t it? Why reduce? Why re-use? Why avoid? The…#
“AI now seems to make all of this pointless, doesn’t it? Why reduce? Why re-use? Why avoid? The AI can build so much in so little time.
Ah, well, it can’t yet do the one thing senior developers still do.
Take responsibility.”
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“If I’ve learned anything in the last twenty years, it’s that software engineering would be a…#
“If I’ve learned anything in the last twenty years, it’s that software engineering would be a lot further ahead today if we had been willing to let our peers in the human sciences teach us how to study these kinds of things properly.”
https://third-bit.com/2026/05/20/twelve-ways-to-be-wrong/?__readwiseLocation=
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“It’s clear that strong delivery capabilities are the foundation that everything sits on top of…#
“It’s clear that strong delivery capabilities are the foundation that everything sits on top of.
Until you fix that, no amount of OKR theatre or discovery work will change things.
This feels counterintuitive until you understand The Theory of Constraints.”
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“Now the industry is going all-in on iteration velocity done by machines, at the cost of everythi…#
“Now the industry is going all-in on iteration velocity done by machines, at the cost of everything else. The same industry that cannot reliably secure its package ecosystems, increasingly struggles to audit its dependency graphs, and deeply trusts automated CI pipelines, is now also merging gigantic, one-shot, million+ line AI-generated commits, and casually normalizing systems humans can no longer comprehensively review themselves.”
https://ipenewsletter.substack.com/p/the-industry-is-normalizing-rushed?__readwiseLocation=
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“More importantly, unlike LLM-based AI, a human being has the chance to learn from experience, an…#
“More importantly, unlike LLM-based AI, a human being has the chance to learn from experience, and for that learning to be rooted in a very specific, emotional response. When I first heard about the PocketOS story, I was brought back to a dim echo of that same horrific feeling I had in the midst of a major production issue that I had contributed to. Those feelings don’t leave you—those lessons don’t leave you.”
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/when-an-agent-deletes-the-production-database/?__readwiseLocation=
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“The ability to translate metrics into meaning is not a data skill. It is a leadership skill. And…#
“The ability to translate metrics into meaning is not a data skill. It is a leadership skill. And like most leadership skills, it is unevenly distributed and consistently underpracticed.”
https://mikefisher.substack.com/p/from-metrics-to-meaning?__readwiseLocation=