reaction from Mancunian (soccer am) on John stones. YouTube video by Manc Larks

With the news that John Stones is leaving Man City, any excuse to post one of my favourite Soccer AM clips of all time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYJU...

I’m working on a theory that people who hate multiculturalism always have the worst fucking palete you’ve ever come across: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRqr31aD/

Welcome to LeadDev's The Shift A new weekly newsletter from LeadDev for engineering leaders grappling with the shift towards AI-driven software development. This week: Mythos myth making, the death of the two pizza team, and more.

Some news: I'm launching The Shift today, a Substack newsletter from @leaddev.com.

Every Friday I'll be delving into the shift software engineering leaders are navigating: from coding by hand, to coding with agents, and all of the messiness that creates: open.substack.com/pub/leaddeve...

I really do think The Athletic needs to be held to account for what it considers to be “breaking news” worthy of a standalone email

"A 10x engineer isn't cool. You know what's cool? A 1,000x engineer."
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Shazam, but for football commentators that I want to criticise

What do you mean there's no more curling on? A bit of snowboard big air? Some speed skating? I miss the winter olympics

Pinterest fires two engineers for building layoff-tracking tool Recent layoffs and an AI-focused hiring push has rattled employees at the tech company.

Is this how rebellions begin? leaddev.com/ai/pinterest...

One thing that makes you feel like you’re losing your grip on reality is constantly having to hear about the genius and brilliance of various Silicon Valley types while also reading headlines about how their businesses are losing sums of money so large that it’s almost impossible to comprehend

Why GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 are a leap forward for coding The latest generation of AI models have proven to be a major step forward for a wide range of coding tasks – but at what cost?

@stokel.bsky.social breaks down why the hype around GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 has reached fever pitch in software developer circles: leaddev.com/technical-di...

Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia Filmography 1986 - Stand By zme 1987 - The Princess Bride 1989 - When Harry Met Sally 1990 - Misery 1992 - A Few Good Men

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.

Us: Across your entire career?

Reiner: In a 6 year period.

Us: That sounds-

Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Why Zig is moving on from GitHub GitHub has become “completely neglected”, according to a scathing review of the platform from the project leader behind Zig.

Zig decides to Zag, moves on from GitHub: leaddev.com/ai/why-zig-i...

"Don't want no Samsung" Plus: Scroll down to see what might be the strangest new artwork in the capital and read more on our investigations into the capital's landlords.

The brutal reality of life as an Android owner in London: First you’re shocked as you’re mugged. Then you’re humiliated as the thief returns the device. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...

I’ve waited two years for this

Why your boss is the biggest AI risk Execs have been quick to caution developers about the risks of AI, but don't seem to be taking their own advice.

“At my company I saw executives buying their own subscriptions to tools like Claude in violation of the policy they themselves wrote,” says one developer, who compared the ad hoc use of AI in their company to bosses driving a "disorganized clown car.”
leaddev.com/ai/why-your-...

Really glad we’re burning the planet for results like this

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

After the conversations I’ve had @leaddev.com New York all week, this by @anildash.com rings very true: www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/...

Google is cracking down on remote work Google follows other tech giants and doubles down to add restrictions on its “Work from Anywhere” (WFA) policy.

leaddev.com/culture/goog...

Deloitte rolls out Claude to 470,000 employees The consulting giant is rolling out Anthropic's Claude AI assistant to a huge chunk of its global workforce.

Despite a recent embarrassing incident involving generative AI, Deloitte is pushing on with a global Anthropic Claude rollout: leaddev.com/ai/deloitte-...

Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - part of a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

This warms the cockles: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

@justinsablich.bsky.social hi Justin, I’m trying to get in touch about some freelance opportunities, drop me a line if you’re interested!

Breaking down Trump’s massive H-1B visa changes Another seismic blow to the US tech hiring landscape as Trump cracks down on the H-1B visa

Donald Trump's H-1B changes will make a material difference to US tech hiring, but Europe is waiting in the wings. “It’s a massive net positive,” Markus Villig from Bolt, the Estonian unicorn, told me in his Tallinn offices. My latest for @leaddev.com leaddev.com/hiring/break...

Whoever invented this should be sent to The Hague

More torment

When Being Incorrect Became the Internet's Best Business Model When I saw new questions on Stackoverflow, I followed 3 simple steps. First I'd read the question, ask clarifying questions in the comment section, and then I would start writing a comprehensive answe

This is so sharp: idiallo.com/blog/being-i...
It's amazing how many things that go viral are essentially because of strategic wrongness because people on the internet are pedants

I love my daughter because one second she’ll be the sweetest person you’ve ever met and the next she’ll ask me to watch the 1998 film Madeleine but only the 10 minutes where she nearly dies from appendicitis

Digital nomads find themselves at a crossroads The digital nomad dream is fading as local communities turn on expats.

“In general it seems like more and more nomads eventually realize the importance of having a more settled life and decide to have a stable base somewhere where they have a community.” @kelkord.bsky.social checked in on the developer digital nomad dream: leaddev.com/career-devel...

Are you paying the AI competence penalty? Devs who use AI are rated 9% less competent on average than their peers, a new study suggests. And the competency penalty is harsher for women.

Despite being given identical code snippets to review, work purportedly written with the help of AI was rated 9% worse on average, and 13% less if submitted by a female colleague.

@stokel.bsky.social on that fascinating @hbr.org study: leaddev.com/career-devel...

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