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Posts by Fazzaro

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Programming Under Surveillance Maybe working in a team is not (or needn't be) dreadful.

"People tend to reject what they imagine programming together would be like, but what they imagine is not the way group programming works."

buff.ly/1wQt00l #pairprogramming #mobprogramming #classic

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Why I prefer trunk-based development - Trisha Gee Trisha summarizes the advantages of trunk-based development (as opposed to branch-based development) in this blog post.

"If you're all working on your own branches, you are not collaborating. You are competing. To see who can get their code in fastest. To avoid being stomped on by someone else's..."

buff.ly/0QsXtrE #continuousintegration #continuousdelivery #cicd #tbd #scattergather #cl

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A sufficiently detailed spec is code Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding

"If you try to make a specification document precise enough to reliably generate a working implementation you must necessarily contort the document into code."

haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-su... #ai #specdrivendevelopment

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How to Do Great Work

"Don't let 'work' mean something other people tell you to do."

buff.ly/JLFaHVS #work #classic

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The Effects of AI-Generated Code Tearing Through Corporations Is Actually Kind of Funny AI-embracing corporations are being plunged into chaos as the AI tools generated more code than what programmers know what to do with.

"Yet, at the same time that jobs are being eliminated, AI is also creating more work that would be best done by another human. Who's supposed to pick up the slack is unclear."

buff.ly/TLeCf2W #ai #human #work

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How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? I mapped every one Update (9 Apr 2026): Another one. A helpful person sent in Microsoft 365 Copilot for US Government. That's 81. Chart updated.

"Try to find a pattern. I couldn't."

buff.ly/9kmQnwM #ai #microsoft #branding #copilot #semanticdiffusion

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"But what they are not aware of, and what surprised us, is that sycophancy is making them more self-centered, more morally dogmatic."

buff.ly/6e9nLIB #ai #humanity

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I quit. The clankers won. The one where I pack up my bags

"Generative AI is art. It's irredeemably shit art; end of conversation. A child's crayon doodle is also lacking refined artistry but we hang it on our fridge because a human made it and **that matters.**"

buff.ly/4q8ZPUl #ai #art #humanity

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The Problem is Likely Not the Person Pointing Out The Problem | Tags

"A manager should be helping their people improve, not sitting in meetings or writing up reports so their boss has something to give to their boss."

buff.ly/HT3zZGg #management #people #work #classic

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The Brand Age

"When you have a world defined only by brand, it's going to be a weird, bad world."

buff.ly/Y1EYgmq #brand #marketing

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notes: copilot edited an ad into my pr After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited my PR description to include and ad for itself and Raycast.

"I knew this kind of bullshit would happen eventually, but I didn't expect it so soon."

buff.ly/nz1xNtp #ai #copilot #adinjection #softwareengineering #developerexperience

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"These places aren't designed for rehabilitation. They are set up simply to house people, shuffle them around for shits and giggles, and spit them back out into society worse for the wear."

buff.ly/iSU3m8u #prison #ptsd #humanity #classic

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Is anybody else bored of talking about AI? Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

"It's like if I went onto the woodworking subreddit and they'd all stopped showing pictures of the tables they'd created and just started posting about the hammer they were using."

buff.ly/SdF1QKr #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience

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Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated Abstraction

"This is so sad. It's the same as thinking storytelling is dead at the invention of the printing press. No you dummies, code is just getting started."

stevekrouse.com/precision #ai #softwareengineering #code #isdead

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Thoughts on slowing the fuck down Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

"Give yourself time to think about what you're actually building and why. Give yourself an opportunity to say, fuck no, we don't need this. Set yourself limits on how much code you let the clanker generate..."

bit.ly/4te2X16 #ai #softwareengineering #bottleneck #coder

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Finneas + Rick Rubin Podcast Episode · Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians · October 31, 2022 · 49m

"I think it's shocking every time how bad things can be on their way to being good. It blows my mind. It's like when someone's solving a Rubik's Cube, and it looks like they're so far from solving it right before they solve it..."

buff.ly/EVhxaD0 #design #nonlinear #cl

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The New Rules How to text, tip, ghost, host, and generally exist with others in society today.

"If you like something your friend is doing, promote it online. It doesn't matter if you have a big following. It's a gesture, it takes 0.5 seconds, and it matters more than you probably realize."

www.thecut.com/article/tipp... #new #etiquette #share #classic

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"The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one."

buff.ly/E2isjf9 #code #complexity #technicaldebt #classic

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Every minute you aren’t running 69 agents, you are falling behind Just kidding.

"This is the real driver of the layoffs, the big players consolidating the rent seeking to them. They just say it's AI cause that makes the stock price go up."

buff.ly/mH67fXR #ai #replacement #capitalism

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How to Kill the Code Review Human-written code died in 2025. Code reviews will die in 2026.

"There is no way we win this fight with manual code reviews."

www.latent.space/p/reviews-dead #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience

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The Hunt for Dark Breakfast With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

"While I cannot place IHOP omelettes exactly on the map, by interpolating between pancakes and omelettes, we can bound where they must occur, and confirm that the manifold possibilities do indeed pass through the Dark Breakfast Abyss."

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Put the ZIP code first. It's 2026. A ZIP code is 5 characters. From those 5 characters you get city, state, and country. 3 fields. Autofilled. Put it first, you animals.

"There is genuinely no reason not to do this other than the mass institutional inertia of a million product managers copy-pasting the same address form template from 2009"

buff.ly/30itGDh #ux #meatloaf

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THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

"The canary is still alive."

buff.ly/N9EwZwz #ai #future #journalism

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Energym | aicandy tech moguls interview from 2036

"What if we could use the energy of humans to power the machines that took away their jobs?"

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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

"The decision not to build something is a decision, an important one! Document it accordingly."

buff.ly/WIfTZBK #softwareengineering #simplicity #negativespace

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Prompts I use - Agentic Engineering Patterns Prompts I use - Agentic Engineering Patterns

"My hard line is that anything that expresses opinions or uses 'I' pronouns needs to have been written by me."

buff.ly/DPVKZyM #ai #writing #pronouns

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Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved...

"Replacing method calls and module separations with network invocations and service partitioning within a single, coherent team and application is madness in almost all cases."

buff.ly/v67Y0Pr #microservices #engineering #architecture #classic

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Václav Havel’s 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless is eerily relevant today In his recent speech at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney drew on Havel’s book challenging compliance in an age of untruthfulness. What does it say?

"Tyranny is challenged not by seizing power, but by depriving falsehood of its audience."

theconversation.com/vaclav-havel...

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AI makes interfaces disposable | Chris Loy I recently became a parent for the first time, as my wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby boy into our lives in January of this year.

"Enabling users to build their own personal interfaces that extend services they love can be a great driver of product stickiness, and businesses can encourage this level of interaction without risking revenue loss."

ilo.im/16anap #ai #ui #productengineering

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AI makes you boring This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons. I don't actually mind...

"Original ideas are the result of the very work you're offloading on LLMs. Having humans in the loop doesn't make the AI think more like people, it makes the human thought more like AI output."

buff.ly/B2G8oOI #ai #creativity #humanity

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