This article currently makes the rounds:
https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/
One part that puzzles me a bit is this:
> Schwartz can use Claude to write a paper because Schwartz already knows the physics. His decades of experience are the immune system that catches Claude's […]
Received a survey from the Austrian Institute for SME Research. One question was asking for reasons that AI isn't used more/sooner.
Options were things like costs, lack of know-how, regulatory concerns etc. but no option to say that it doesn't work as advertised or that you haven't seen […]
Github notification emails for PRs or mentions now include a tracking token in the "View on Github" link.
Besides the tracking being a bad thing, the URLs now also no longer fit into one line on my screen, which breaks the URL detection of my terminal.
Glad I already moved some projects off.
Starring at an if statement with a condition that spans 7 lines and includes 5 function calls I wonder if the rise of opinionated formatters was the first step towards conditioning programmers to no longer care about how code looks like.
I've been using ZubanLS for a few months now and I'm overall pretty happy with it.
Worth checking out if you're looking for a python language server:
https://zubanls.com/
Hadn't seen this one before:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-autocomplete-...
> Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.
> Interestingly, the people […]
Turns out METR did a follow up study showing a speedup instead of a slowdown:
https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/
The sampling profiler coming in Python 3.15 looks pretty interesting.
Been a while since I've been looking forward to a new feature in Python.
docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html
Forking vim because of contributors and maintainers use of LLMs seems a tad bit irrational to me.
If the concern with LLMs are ethics related - the fork won't change any of those.
If the concerns are quality related: Helping out with reviews would probably be less effort than maintaining a […]
RE: social.fussenegger.pro/@mathias/113306189980501...
Jackpot. But it was also me who added the test case using a mock :(
New week, new linkcheck failures. This time getting blocked by cloud.google.com.
I guess in times of AI crawlers the most reliable way to verify your documentation doesn't contain any broken links is to hire an intern that checks them manually.
Why is it that even in articles that are somewhat critical of LLM use for programming, they state that they do indeed improve productivity as a matter of fact?
Are there by now any studies that actually confirm that? So far I've only seen some where the improvement was estimated - sometimes […]
I had almost forgotten about Microsoft Access or Dreamweaver. Good times.
www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-softw...
> translating human intent into working software is fundamentally difficult. The gap between natural language specification and […]
Tweet by @trq212 about Claude Code rendering scene graph in 11 ms and printing it to terminal in 5 ms
Tweet by @jarredsumner about Claude Code memory usage growing from 10 Gb in January to 68 Gb to 1.7 Gb now
Gotta give it to Claude Code developers: they are exceptionally brave. I would’ve been straight up embarrassed to show stats like this.
Reminder: Claude Code is a thin CLI client that reads input from your terminal, sends it to Antrhopic servers and prints back the response.
I always had a strong aversion to dealing with intermediates if doing the thing directly is easier and faster.
Looking at the examples here makes me wonder if being in management for too long rewires your brain into a delegate mode or something?
Also - I thought ChatOps never took off because […]
Starting Monday with Sphinx builds failing locally because I'm getting rate limited with a JS challenge by either the CDN or readthedocs when fetching the intersphinx artifacts
Could we please finally conclude that LLMs are a net negative and move on? Getting tiring dealing with stuff like this
Some interesting numbers in this article:
flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/the-software-...
> What struck me most about the CrowdStrike incident wasn’t that it happened—any system can have bugs. What struck me was the […]
The job of engineers is not to deploy some technology but to build robust, reliable and sustainable (in all meanings of that word) solutions for real world problems based on requirements directly derived from people's needs. Even for an engineer technology comes second at best.
In the days of AI crawler bot protection everywhere: Is there a sanctioned way to do linkchecks to ensure project documentation doesn't contain any broken links?
`sphinx linkcheck` is running into 403 errors from wikipedia if the documentation contains a few references to it.
I was hoping disabling issues on Github would make existing issues still available on direct URL and on search but have them read-only. Instead it removes them.
Now I wonder if the better option is to keep them enabled and set up an auto-close action and lock all of them?
The topic to forbid social media for people younger than 16 has also reached Austria and I'm a bit surprised how many people are in favor, and how flat the reporting is.
No mention of any concrete impact - e.g. that it might mean that to use YouTube and similar everyone'll have to be logged in […]
Why there’s no European Google?
And why it is a good thing!
My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source."
ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-europe...
#geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi
> We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of […]
I still don't really know how to best deal with Windows support in my more popular projects. I don't really care about it. Actually, given how things are going with it being spyware and the political situation I'm sort of incentivized to add a note that it isn't supported. Setting up CI would […]
Today's debugging adventure:
Couldn't match type: Foo Bar
with: Foo Bar
Expected: Either String (Foo Bar)
Actual: Either String (Foo Bar)
Same src location for both. Error only happens on `cabal repl` with the test module. `cabal test` passes
Project involves using alex & happy for lexing and […]
Is there some context or nuance to this that I'm missing? Why would the EU consider giving the US direct access to national police databases only to maintain the visa-waiver program?
With the current political circumstances you'd think they ought to announce a travel alert instead […]
I'm not sure what to make of the trend of using an editor to install software.
People maintaining distributions do a great job packaging software and package managers are quite mature with features like package signing, rollbacks, update hooks, etc.
Why do people prefer having a plugin shell […]
Something bugged me about a lot of more modern interfaces but I couldn't put my finger on it until I read this:
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
> The main function of an icon is to help you find what you are looking for faster.
> Perhaps counter-intuitively, adding an icon to everything […]
Interview of concept artists about the use of AI:
> outsourcing [...] to AI “robs you of discovery, as it will likely more or less give you exactly what you asked of it.”
> “[...] going through archives and real world references will allow you to stumble upon things you have never thought of […]
In a podcast I listened some time ago it was mentioned that one effective way to get people to adapt their behavior to be more environment friendly is to have them write a letter to their youngest relative. The letter should explain what they're doing to help ensure their relative will have a […]