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"When you make "passivity" the thing you're optimizing for, you stop caring about anything a customer might actually want. Caring is active. Caring takes time. Caring is work. Giving a shit is, by definition, not passive."
#passiveincome #entrepreneur #care #purpose
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive-income-trap-ate-a-generation-of-entrepreneurs/
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"Each answer leads to more questions. The accumulated decisions, edge cases, and interactions create genuine complexity that no tool or language can eliminate. Someone must think through these scenarios. That thinking is software development, regardless of whether it's expressed in COBOL, a CASE tool diagram, Visual Basic, or an AI prompt."
#ai #knowledgework #softwareengineering #replacement
https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html
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"Even if I wanted to reject AI and go back to the days where the Thinker's needs were met by coding, the Builder in me would struggle with the inefficiency."
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"Cooldowns enforce positive behavior from supply chain security vendors: vendors are still incentivized to discover and report attacks quickly, but are not as incentivized to emit volumes of blogspam about 'critical' attacks on largely underfunded open source ecosystems."
#npm #supplychainattack #dependencymanagement
https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns
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"\*You\* are the agent who will wrangle the task graph, above the level of the leaf nodes. We believe the wrangler will be human, not a model. We are not sitting around to wait for the research on autonomous agents to conclude, for these all-purpose systems to be built, launched, tested."
#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #chop
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-death-of-the-stubborn-developer-b5e8f78d326b