#alexthureading — Public Fediverse posts
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Joseph Pelrine: "PsychNuggets | Why We See Faces in Toast and Talk to Our Toasters“
https://ckarchive.com/b/lmuehmhnqeqqxbd7kkm78c8kxn400ighv6x3g
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Joseph Pelrine: "PsychNuggets | Why We See Faces in Toast and Talk to Our Toasters“
https://ckarchive.com/b/lmuehmhnqeqqxbd7kkm78c8kxn400ighv6x3g
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Otto Scharmer: "Leadership’s Blind Spot in the Age of AI"
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/leaderships-blind-spot-in-the-age-of-ai/
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Otto Scharmer: "Leadership’s Blind Spot in the Age of AI"
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/leaderships-blind-spot-in-the-age-of-ai/
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"Herbert Simon saw the core constraint in 1971: "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." Researchers at Caltech have shown that human thought operates at roughly 10 bits per second. Your sensory systems take in billions. Your conscious mind processes ten. Every communication technology in history has increased the volume arriving at that bottleneck. Not one has widened the bottleneck itself.“
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paperclip-maximiser-you-chris-nesbitt-smith-jwcne
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"Herbert Simon saw the core constraint in 1971: "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." Researchers at Caltech have shown that human thought operates at roughly 10 bits per second. Your sensory systems take in billions. Your conscious mind processes ten. Every communication technology in history has increased the volume arriving at that bottleneck. Not one has widened the bottleneck itself.“
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paperclip-maximiser-you-chris-nesbitt-smith-jwcne
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„Our built-in mental rhythms are adaptable to a degree that can be counterproductive. Human creativity increasingly has to adjust to the demands of machinery, and so people become less able to control their time-keeping. In other words, human inventiveness, sensitivity and flexibility are in conflict with technology's predictability, lack of imagination and resistance to change. Or to put it…“ 1/
Bodil Jönsson in „Ten Thoughts About Time“
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„Our built-in mental rhythms are adaptable to a degree that can be counterproductive. Human creativity increasingly has to adjust to the demands of machinery, and so people become less able to control their time-keeping. In other words, human inventiveness, sensitivity and flexibility are in conflict with technology's predictability, lack of imagination and resistance to change. Or to put it…“ 1/
Bodil Jönsson in „Ten Thoughts About Time“
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"Supporting the Moment: Seeing Software as Activity Instead of Artifact“
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"Supporting the Moment: Seeing Software as Activity Instead of Artifact“
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In exactly this context the following toot by @mcc has indeed aged well (fyi @baldur):
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114321812582398229
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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In exactly this context the following toot by @mcc has indeed aged well (fyi @baldur):
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114321812582398229
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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Ten takeaways from the AI Engineering Report 2026: The Acceleration Whiplash
https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways
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Ten takeaways from the AI Engineering Report 2026: The Acceleration Whiplash
https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways
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„… resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happen so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.
I worry.” /4
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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„… resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happen so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.
I worry.” /4
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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Gergely Orosz: "Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering
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Gergely Orosz: "Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering
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„Some people are still complaining about the quality of the code generated by LLM’s and I strongly disagree with this take. In my experience, the code generated is actually pretty good. What bothers me is the code quantity. Specially because I don’t believe in “vibe coding” (that is: trusting the generated code and not even taking a look at it). I need to review the code and make sure it’s doing what it’s supposed…“ 1/
@melomario in https://mariomelo.com/en/the-pitfalls-of-ai-augmented-development-part-2
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„Some people are still complaining about the quality of the code generated by LLM’s and I strongly disagree with this take. In my experience, the code generated is actually pretty good. What bothers me is the code quantity. Specially because I don’t believe in “vibe coding” (that is: trusting the generated code and not even taking a look at it). I need to review the code and make sure it’s doing what it’s supposed…“ 1/
@melomario in https://mariomelo.com/en/the-pitfalls-of-ai-augmented-development-part-2
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„The term Vibe Coding was coined by Andrej Karpathy, and he said that the technique is “not too bad for throwaway weekend projects”. A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding, and the AI researcher Simon Willison even said that “If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you’ve reviewed, tested, and understood it all, that’s not vibe coding in…“ 1/
@melomario in https://mariomelo.com/en/the-pitfalls-of-ai-augmented-development
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„The term Vibe Coding was coined by Andrej Karpathy, and he said that the technique is “not too bad for throwaway weekend projects”. A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding, and the AI researcher Simon Willison even said that “If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you’ve reviewed, tested, and understood it all, that’s not vibe coding in…“ 1/
@melomario in https://mariomelo.com/en/the-pitfalls-of-ai-augmented-development
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„There’s a moment every engineer knows but rarely talks about. It’s not the one before a deploy, or the one after a pager alert. It’s the moment after you’ve opened your 6th tab of the hour, when your eyes blur, your shoulders instinctively rise towards your ears, and you realise you can’t remember what you were doing just 5 minutes ago. It’s the moment where the work stops being work, and becomes interruption management.“
https://russmiles.substack.com/p/on-the-pain-of-task-switching
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„There’s a moment every engineer knows but rarely talks about. It’s not the one before a deploy, or the one after a pager alert. It’s the moment after you’ve opened your 6th tab of the hour, when your eyes blur, your shoulders instinctively rise towards your ears, and you realise you can’t remember what you were doing just 5 minutes ago. It’s the moment where the work stops being work, and becomes interruption management.“
https://russmiles.substack.com/p/on-the-pain-of-task-switching
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„[…] the mind is not the reliable, neutral instrument we tend to assume. Memory reconstructs rather than records. Bias edits what we remember in self-serving directions. Emotion shapes which memories surface and how we weigh what we find. And the modern habit of constant switching quietly erodes our capacity to think carefully at all. Together, these four themes point to the same practical conclusion – a…“ 1/
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„[…] the mind is not the reliable, neutral instrument we tend to assume. Memory reconstructs rather than records. Bias edits what we remember in self-serving directions. Emotion shapes which memories surface and how we weigh what we find. And the modern habit of constant switching quietly erodes our capacity to think carefully at all. Together, these four themes point to the same practical conclusion – a…“ 1/
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Faster horses? Nope!
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own”
— Henry Ford
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Faster horses? Nope!
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own”
— Henry Ford
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„"Hello!“ lyukhina lunged forward and hugged Stratt. “I’m here to die for Earth! Pretty awesome, yes?!"
I leaned to Dimitri. "Are all Russians crazy?"
"Yes," he said with a smile. "It is the only way to be Russian and happy at the same time."
"That's ... dark."
"That's Russian!"“ -
„"Hello!“ lyukhina lunged forward and hugged Stratt. “I’m here to die for Earth! Pretty awesome, yes?!"
I leaned to Dimitri. "Are all Russians crazy?"
"Yes," he said with a smile. "It is the only way to be Russian and happy at the same time."
"That's ... dark."
"That's Russian!"“ -
Joseph Pelrine: „#99 - The Myth of Multitasking“
https://ckarchive.com/b/75u7h8h673d5xf6rgg7rlaw4w63oqunhge25w
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Joseph Pelrine: „#99 - The Myth of Multitasking“
https://ckarchive.com/b/75u7h8h673d5xf6rgg7rlaw4w63oqunhge25w
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Casey Newton: "The best argument I’ve heard for why AI won't take your job"
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Casey Newton: "The best argument I’ve heard for why AI won't take your job"
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@flowchainsenseisocial: "What Bill Deming Might Say to Every Business Psychologist on LinkedIn"
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@flowchainsenseisocial: "What Bill Deming Might Say to Every Business Psychologist on LinkedIn"
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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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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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@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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“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