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Joseph Pelrine: „#99 - The Myth of Multitasking“
https://ckarchive.com/b/75u7h8h673d5xf6rgg7rlaw4w63oqunhge25w
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Faisal Hoque: "There isn’t an AI bubble—there are three“
https://www.fastcompany.com/91400857/there-isnt-an-ai-bubble-there-are-three-ai-bu
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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@ufried’s JAX 2026 slide deck:
„The 7 pitfalls of AI“
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“To sum up: There is some level of essential acceleration. However, this perceived ever-increasing speed in IT that exhausts us increasingly is something we created and fuel ourselves. This is what I mean by:
We are our own worst enemies.
We are the ones who make our lives worse by reflexively running faster and faster, in directions that others set.”
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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"Reading and reasoning about unfamiliar code is among the most cognitively demanding activities developers undertake, which is partly why understanding erosion is so consequential. The psychological mechanism behind this is what Shaw and Nave refer to as cognitive surrender: adopting AI outputs with minimal scrutiny, bypassing both intuition and deliberate reasoning [...]. This is importantly different from…“ 1/
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"From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI"
Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada, March 27, 2026
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22106
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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Yesterday I had a bit of an epiphany:
With refactoring we had - for quite an extended time - a tool at our hands with which we were able to regain our mental models of our code.
We too seldomly used it consequently.
With AI we now have a tool at our hands with which we are able to fully automatically get rid of our mental model.
Quite likely we will use it too often… especially when our time will be running out in any given project.
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… updated version dating back to 12.11.2025 just got available. Thank you @donaldegray 🙏 ✅!
Related side note: there might be some additions to that mindmap coming up... 🚧 👷♂️
Next thing today:
@swardley mapping session related to:
"Quantum - Supply chain“
( related FYI: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AryXObOoxTeXqE5ciH8AzJJ4jRKBJO8eZV3DWuKUlbO0oxW5AMOU~AjldSZn9FxBal4sEKzXwAQDSWyECSAIKDRfWkvaUXZGLJh2qW871nyZ6SA )
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"More code, less understanding. That's not a productivity gain. That's a time bomb with a nicer dashboard.“
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Andrew Murphy: "If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems“
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuClassics #AlexThuOrgDev #AlexThuDisruption
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„Joy at work seems like such a simple idea - just make everyone happy, right? No! Embracing joy at work means fighting joy's greatest enemy: fear. And unfortunately, leadership based on fear is the status quo for nearly every organization and bureaucracy.“
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuClassics #AlexThuOrgDev
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„What we need is an admission of how little we actually know about how to pass safely through the next few decades, the courage to examine a wide range of alternative programs and, most of all, a dedication not to dogma but to solutions. Finding any solution will be hard enough.“
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"There are so many variations on the “there are only two hard problems in computer programming...” joke that I’m starting to suspect that programming isn’t actually very easy.“
(@natpryce - https://x.com/natpryce/status/1396905452588474376)
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"That's the main benefit of microservices, you can hate them without having to hate anything else.“
(Richard Wild - https://x.com/richardjwild/status/1396744433954004998)
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„The seductiveness of technologically enabled productivity should make all of us concerned about our adaptability as a species. One of the most valuable tools in our toolbox-the bond between expert and novices being compromised for short-term wins, just when we need it most.“
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„If you strip away the particulars, a single finding emerges: when either kind of technology allows an expert to become more effective and focused, we buy it and we use it. Organizations and experts simply do not pass up improved productivity. But in pursuit of almighty productivity, we are embracing these technologies in ways that reduce meaningful involvement for millions of workers throughout the global economy. The more.…“ 1/
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„So, you can see why there's a compelling, short-term case for cutting novices out of the action when we implement new technologies. By virtue of the fact that they are still learning, we have to recognize that involving them increases risk and slows things down, and that there's an immediate upside in quality and profit if we let experts do their thing. But it also raises the question: How will the next generation…“ 1/
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„When speed becomes the measure of performance it governs the way we experience our lives as well as the quality of our lives. Speed becomes a reason to settle for lower quality and ignore our desires. A friend, Meg Wheatley, told me about a poet who agreed to publish a poem on a very tight deadline. When she asked how he could do that, he said, "All I have to do is lower my standards."“
(Peter Block in „The Answer To How Is Yes“)
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"the #log4j scramble in a nutshell“
(Yong Sheng - https://x.com/ystan_/status/1470206230647894016)
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„The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is.
—G. K. Chesterton,' 20th century writer“… as found in Donella H. Meadows „Thinking in Systems - A Primer“
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„I believe that sw quality is dictated by the system that made it. It isn't decided by process, team, platform, or prog. language, but by the system that integrates those elements into a functioning whole. That means we can improve most sw simply by looking at how elements flow from one part of the system to another and how they interact. We can improve without throwing away what we already know, without adopting this week’s...“ 1/
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„As I learned firsthand, the absence of physical safety can bring injury or death, but the absence of psychological safety can inflict devastating emotional wounds, neutralize performance, paralyze potential, and crater an individual's sense of self-worth. The implication is that organizations that lack psychological safety and compete in highly dynamic markets are galloping their way to extinction.“
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„As the iterations progress, the error bars shrink until there is no point in hoping that the original date has any chance of success. This loss of hope is a major goal of Agile. We practice Agile in order to destroy hope before that hope can kill the project. Hope is the project killer. Hope is what makes a software team mislead managers about their true progress. When a manager asks a team, "How's it going?" it is hope…“ 1/
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„Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.“
(Patrick Lencioni in „The Five Dysfunctions of a Team“)
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"Comments are the names you would use for a chunk of code if you knew how to extract method. #codecomments“
(Arlo Belshee - https://twitter.com/arlobelshee/status/462629848587182080)
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"We rewrite code too often instead of improving existing ones mostly because wrong reasons https://twitter.com/karolikl #leetspeak" (Rui Carvalho - https://twitter.com/rhwy/status/652846879680671744)
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"When do code can be considered as Legacy ? There's no absolute definition :-) https://twitter.com/karolikl
#leetspeak" (Rui Carvalho - https://twitter.com/rhwy/status/652852303834296320)