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There are serious questions about copyright, labor, energy use, slop, and maintainers drowning in generated contributions. But these tools are also becoming part of how software is made. The Open Source world needs to figure out how to engage with that future, not just divide into camps.

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The open source world has never been great at this, unfortunately.

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Small PRs were the right answer for a team of humans writing code by hand. They’re the wrong answer for a team orchestrating AI agents that ship complete features. The discipline didn’t disappear. It moved downstream, to flags, scoped rollouts, and systems that make it safe to be wrong.

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Interesting thoughts on code review. I don’t agree about rollbacks (roll forward always) but do with a lot of the rest. It seems like everyone and the proverbial dog is making a review bot. My hope is that we get a few that are clearly the best, model/provider agnostic, mostly without needing a lot of new domain...

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I too have issues with migration. Large and rapid arrivals can strain housing, schools, public services, and social trust and we see that. Integration requires real work from newcomers and from the country receiving them and there should always be a discussion about balance and approach. It requires language, employment, schools that work, housing that is available, clear expectations.

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I don’t agree with everything in this piece (somewhat translating Europe into New Zealand and the US into Australia). But I agree vastly more than with DHH’s piece.

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The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does. This language is rarely written down in one place. It lives partly in documentation and code, but also in code review, conversations, arguments, and the experience of having to explain a change to somebody else.

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Something like this came up in our work book club this week. It will be interesting to see whether we develop better ways for expressing this shared language.

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Sometimes I want the $22 burger. Sometimes I want the McDonald’s cheeseburger, no pickles. Both are fine. Both have their place. But here’s the thing the boomers keep missing: I get to pick.

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I hope we do end up with art we can informatively choose between. I wonder how much software is actually art.

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An interesting set of questions for candidates to ask interviews. I’d be happy to get any of these, although I wouldn’t be able to answer all of them (as an interviewer and not the hiring lead). It’s always informative hearing what someone asks (or when they have nothing to ask). I think my least favourite...

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The practical fixes that keep being proposed treat [open-source] as a market anyway and bolt the missing pieces on, which is where bug bounties, sponsorship marketplaces, dependents-weighted funding formulas, criticality scores, and tokenised reward schemes all come from. Every one of them is an attempt to reconstruct a price for something that has never had one, and to do that they need a number to stand in for value.

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Open-source is odd from an economics perspective. When hobbies intersect with the wider world - there are other examples like this in the volunteer space, but none so big, I guess.

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Software has always depended on tools. I remember the time when I had to pay for compilers. These new tools are a flashback to times where creating software came with real costs. But now it’s no longer a one-time payment, it’s a constant dependency. Not just a dependency on a filled wallet, but also a cognitive dependency.

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Interesting thoughts on loops (AI).

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“observability” is what we call it now that “monitoring” doesn’t sound expensive enough

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Pithy, but an interesting piece arguing for Clickhouse.

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Despite the counterfactual section of this The Demoralization of The White-Collar Worker article, I feel much is also true here in NZ, and we are at risk of heading the same way with others, like retirement. It’s enormously frustrating that so many people feel we can increment our way of of this, rather than...

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@help paste is still missing in 3.7.1, although it is there in a reply, just not when writing a new post. Undo and redo as well.

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Is it any wonder that software has always been such a fiercely collectivist endeavor, exquisitely sensitive to relationship dynamics and manners and questions of fairness and emotional valence? It’s exactly what you’d expect when part of your brain lives in other people’s brains, and your collective interdependence is sky high.

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This follow-up post about AI is worth reading in general, but the above quote is just delightful.

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@help where did the copy & paste buttons go? And why does pasting only work half the time now? Do you test on iPadOS?

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Microservice architectures aren’t there for scaling the software itself, they’re there for scaling the software organization.

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A good take that you don’t see often enough. Still not a fan in general, at least the way it’s often done :).

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I love this little robot building story. I wish I did more of this.

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Interesting post on marketing at Sentry two years after dropping cookies. I have a known positive bias towards Sentry, but I wish more companies experimented like this.

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The links are annoyingly to Spotify (but all of these are on Apple Music) and some of the answers are clearly political (unsurprising given the people) but this is a pretty decent set of NZ music to listen to, even though NZMM is now over for 2026.

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Very approachable and understandable (and well presented) explanation of reservoir sampling.

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What the field requires, by their own account, is research — not half a trillion dollars in concrete and copper. The buildout is an answer to a question the technology has not yet resolved, built at a scale that forecloses the possibility of changing course when the research points somewhere else.

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Also good points how the blurry way people talk about LLMs and the things that wrapping an LLM in a harness of software engineering knowledge and tooling confuses things.

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Interesting read on the economics of software teams. I find it odd that this isn’t talked about more. Not only in terms of deliverability and work choices, but the financial cost of meetings and other “ceremonies”. Back in my PM days, I would try to tie roadmap choices to financial outcomes like this.

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Previous general-purpose technologies diffused across decades, which gave workforces time to retrain, to relocate, and to move children into different trades than their parents. The steam engine, electrification, and the personal computer each took a working generation or more to reshape the labor market, and the adjustment, however brutal, happened on a human timescale. The current automation of cognitive work is compressing that timeline toward a handful of years. The compression is more striking because the measured payoff has not arrived. Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius said that AI...

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But the thing is, LLMs are very flexible. And you can use them just as effectively to write high-quality code more slowly.

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Solid advice worth reading, if you’re not rabidly anti-LLM.

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Lately my first response to a Dependabot CVE alert, and a fair few of the routine version bumps, has been to check whether I still need the dependency at all before looking at what changed in it.

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Solid advice.

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I have no idea why another would want to do this with a phone but it is amazing that you can. Imagine doing this in front of someone even 25 years ago.

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This is an amazingly well put together explanation of Turing machines.

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A nice way to run daily standup meetings. I would like ours to move closer to this, although it’s not super far off. The only bit not feasible is holding them just before lunch, since people are in multiple time zones, so not everyone is lunching simultaneously.

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The impossible things we have to believe. Depressing, but true.

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