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@jonfazzaro.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Work isn't inherently valuable. People are.
#software #productengineering #knowledgework
(also #UniversalBasicIncome)
#software #productengineering #knowledgework
(also #UniversalBasicIncome)
"Involve junior developers in architecture reviews. They will help you to identify the mentally demanding areas."
buff.ly/w50sb5W #softwareengineering #developerexperience #teaming #pairing #architecture #productivity
buff.ly/w50sb5W #softwareengineering #developerexperience #teaming #pairing #architecture #productivity
Cognitive load is what matters
There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.
buff.ly
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Involve junior developers in architecture reviews. They will help you to identify the mentally demanding areas."
buff.ly/w50sb5W #softwareengineering #developerexperience #teaming #pairing #architecture #productivity
buff.ly/w50sb5W #softwareengineering #developerexperience #teaming #pairing #architecture #productivity
"For a team to be comfortable with and successful at pair programming, they will have to work on all the skills helpful to overcome its challenges… and these are actually all skills th..."
buff.ly/USDMHC1 #softwareengineering #developerexperience #teaming #pairing #te…
buff.ly/USDMHC1 #softwareengineering #developerexperience #teaming #pairing #te…
On Pair Programming
A guide to effective pair-programming
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"For a team to be comfortable with and successful at pair programming, they will have to work on all the skills helpful to overcome its challenges… and these are actually all skills th..."
buff.ly/USDMHC1 #softwareengineering #developerexperience #teaming #pairing #te…
buff.ly/USDMHC1 #softwareengineering #developerexperience #teaming #pairing #te…
"It's not bad old multi-tasking though. I'm not interrupting one action to take another. I'm putting reflection in the background as I always do, putting on another burst of action, & reflecting on that."
tidyfirst.substack.com/p/return-of-... #ai #productivity #multitasking #multithreading
tidyfirst.substack.com/p/return-of-... #ai #productivity #multitasking #multithreading
Return of Multi-tasking?
Before you start, I’m not advocating for anything here.
tidyfirst.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"It's not bad old multi-tasking though. I'm not interrupting one action to take another. I'm putting reflection in the background as I always do, putting on another burst of action, & reflecting on that."
tidyfirst.substack.com/p/return-of-... #ai #productivity #multitasking #multithreading
tidyfirst.substack.com/p/return-of-... #ai #productivity #multitasking #multithreading
"In a world obsessed with adding rather than refining, speed becomes the ultimate expression of respect. It says, 'We've thought deeply about what matters and eliminated everything else.'"
buff.ly/Xn9yhXF #design #speed #software #ux
buff.ly/Xn9yhXF #design #speed #software #ux
fast | catherine jue
Rarely in software does anyone ask for “fast.” We ask for features, we ask for volume discounts, we ask for the next data integration. We never think to ask for fast. But software that's fast changes...
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"In a world obsessed with adding rather than refining, speed becomes the ultimate expression of respect. It says, 'We've thought deeply about what matters and eliminated everything else.'"
buff.ly/Xn9yhXF #design #speed #software #ux
buff.ly/Xn9yhXF #design #speed #software #ux
"When we talk about delivering features, we're talking about shovels when we should be talking about striking fear into the hearts of Roman soldiers."
www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2025... #product #purpose #accountability
www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2025... #product #purpose #accountability
James Shore: The Accountability Problem
The Art of AgileSM
www.jamesshore.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"When we talk about delivering features, we're talking about shovels when we should be talking about striking fear into the hearts of Roman soldiers."
www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2025... #product #purpose #accountability
www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2025... #product #purpose #accountability
"The trouble isn't the shifting narrative, but the fragility of America's bet on AI and wealthy consumers driving growth."
How Does the End Begin?
The top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 account for 40% of the index’s market cap. Since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, AI-related stocks have…
buff.ly
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"The trouble isn't the shifting narrative, but the fragility of America's bet on AI and wealthy consumers driving growth."
"The old elites are rarely willing to bring such differences of opinion out into the open because it would involve exposing the nature of the informal structure of the group."
buff.ly/DRYrYOW #structure #power
buff.ly/DRYrYOW #structure #power
The Tyranny of Stuctureless
The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman
buff.ly
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"The old elites are rarely willing to bring such differences of opinion out into the open because it would involve exposing the nature of the informal structure of the group."
buff.ly/DRYrYOW #structure #power
buff.ly/DRYrYOW #structure #power
"We've created a perfect storm: tools that amplify incompetence, used by developers who can't evaluate the output, reviewed by managers who trust the machine more than their people."
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
techtrenches.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"We've created a perfect storm: tools that amplify incompetence, used by developers who can't evaluate the output, reviewed by managers who trust the machine more than their people."
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience
"The purpose of using a tool that may seem ill-suited to the task at hand—designing user interfaces—is to liberate yourself from the clutter or baggage of content and style."
buff.ly/GsRDSNz #ux #design
buff.ly/GsRDSNz #ux #design
How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet ⌘I Get Info
Many years ago, while working at Apple and running a lab at WWDC, I met a guy who was using a piece of Apple software designed for creating interactive ads t...
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"The purpose of using a tool that may seem ill-suited to the task at hand—designing user interfaces—is to liberate yourself from the clutter or baggage of content and style."
buff.ly/GsRDSNz #ux #design
buff.ly/GsRDSNz #ux #design
"It's crazy how 3 years into the AI revolution a non-technical investor will make predictions based on the fact that 'AI writes all the code now.' It's not a 'what if' or a 'maybe' or even a 'when..."
buff.ly/bFRAoV0 #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #vibec…
buff.ly/bFRAoV0 #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #vibec…
I'm in Vibe Coding Hell
When I started thinking about the problems with coding education in 2019, “tutorial hell” was enemy number one. You’d know you were living in it if you:
buff.ly
October 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"It's crazy how 3 years into the AI revolution a non-technical investor will make predictions based on the fact that 'AI writes all the code now.' It's not a 'what if' or a 'maybe' or even a 'when..."
buff.ly/bFRAoV0 #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #vibec…
buff.ly/bFRAoV0 #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #vibec…
"The most highly-paid jobs in the world are impossible to describe, their labor described in a mish-mash of LinkedInspiraton, yet everybody else's labor is an output that can be automated."
buff.ly/ynDEhRb #ai #replacement #othering
buff.ly/ynDEhRb #ai #replacement #othering
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words....
buff.ly
October 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"The most highly-paid jobs in the world are impossible to describe, their labor described in a mish-mash of LinkedInspiraton, yet everybody else's labor is an output that can be automated."
buff.ly/ynDEhRb #ai #replacement #othering
buff.ly/ynDEhRb #ai #replacement #othering
"The basic problem is code katas are too small and there are too many examples of solutions in the LLM training data."
coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/07/turn... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #practice
coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/07/turn... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #practice
Turn off your AI Assistant for Code Katas - Coding Is Like Cooking
Code Katas are small exercises which can help you to practice coding skills in a safe environment. They are fun little problems with quirky themes that should hold your attention and be enjoyable to work...
coding-is-like-cooking.info
October 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"The basic problem is code katas are too small and there are too many examples of solutions in the LLM training data."
coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/07/turn... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #practice
coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/07/turn... #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #practice
"Because when traffic spikes (say, a hit show drops at midnight), these monolithic cores scale horizontally more efficiently than dozens of chatty microservices."
buff.ly/tYmDLFc #softwareengineering #developerexperience #softwarearchitecture #scale
buff.ly/tYmDLFc #softwareengineering #developerexperience #softwarearchitecture #scale
How Netflix Accidentally Proved Monoliths Scale Better Than Microservices
For a decade, the dominant Silicon Valley mantra has been: monoliths don’t scale; microservices do. Netflix itself helped popularize this…
buff.ly
October 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Because when traffic spikes (say, a hit show drops at midnight), these monolithic cores scale horizontally more efficiently than dozens of chatty microservices."
buff.ly/tYmDLFc #softwareengineering #developerexperience #softwarearchitecture #scale
buff.ly/tYmDLFc #softwareengineering #developerexperience #softwarearchitecture #scale
"OKRs graphs don't make your teams more focused. Repeated conversations about the goals do."
buff.ly/h6pHIGa #purpose #okrs #focus #knowledgework #goodhartslaw
buff.ly/h6pHIGa #purpose #okrs #focus #knowledgework #goodhartslaw
buff.ly
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"OKRs graphs don't make your teams more focused. Repeated conversations about the goals do."
buff.ly/h6pHIGa #purpose #okrs #focus #knowledgework #goodhartslaw
buff.ly/h6pHIGa #purpose #okrs #focus #knowledgework #goodhartslaw
"AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. And when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging 'foundation models' will be shut off. And we'll..."
buff.ly/Qgt7nv0 #ai #bubble #b2b…
buff.ly/Qgt7nv0 #ai #bubble #b2b…
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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buff.ly
September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. And when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging 'foundation models' will be shut off. And we'll..."
buff.ly/Qgt7nv0 #ai #bubble #b2b…
buff.ly/Qgt7nv0 #ai #bubble #b2b…
Reposted by Fazzaro
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
"Three years into the hype, it seems that one of AI's enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they're losing it."
buff.ly/EbkbfOf #ai #hype #mentalhealth
buff.ly/EbkbfOf #ai #hype #mentalhealth
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
buff.ly
September 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Three years into the hype, it seems that one of AI's enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they're losing it."
buff.ly/EbkbfOf #ai #hype #mentalhealth
buff.ly/EbkbfOf #ai #hype #mentalhealth
"A rule is only meaningful in a specific flow. When you abstract it too early, you lose that meaning and invite bugs the moment someone 'reuses' it i..."
buff.ly/5PUGDex #softwareengineering #developerexperience #objectorientedprogramming #code #reuse #functionalprogra…
buff.ly/5PUGDex #softwareengineering #developerexperience #objectorientedprogramming #code #reuse #functionalprogra…
Objects Are Dead, Long Live Feature Slices
Why I stopped chasing reuse and started writing domain logic around decisions, not abstractions.
buff.ly
September 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"A rule is only meaningful in a specific flow. When you abstract it too early, you lose that meaning and invite bugs the moment someone 'reuses' it i..."
buff.ly/5PUGDex #softwareengineering #developerexperience #objectorientedprogramming #code #reuse #functionalprogra…
buff.ly/5PUGDex #softwareengineering #developerexperience #objectorientedprogramming #code #reuse #functionalprogra…
"'I fight for the user' has been lurking in the hindbrains of so many tech workers since the Tron years, somehow nestling comfortably alongside of the idea that 'I don't need a union, I'm a temporarily embarrassed founder.'"
buff.ly/GLwEJLX #jobs #union #work #humanity
buff.ly/GLwEJLX #jobs #union #work #humanity
The enshittification of tech jobs
Our last line of defense has fallen.
buff.ly
September 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"'I fight for the user' has been lurking in the hindbrains of so many tech workers since the Tron years, somehow nestling comfortably alongside of the idea that 'I don't need a union, I'm a temporarily embarrassed founder.'"
buff.ly/GLwEJLX #jobs #union #work #humanity
buff.ly/GLwEJLX #jobs #union #work #humanity
"Now professors face their own temptations from AI, which can enable them to get more work done, and faster, just as it does for students."
buff.ly/mffLskb #ai #education #learning
buff.ly/mffLskb #ai #education #learning
College Students Have Already Changed Forever
Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work.
buff.ly
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Now professors face their own temptations from AI, which can enable them to get more work done, and faster, just as it does for students."
buff.ly/mffLskb #ai #education #learning
buff.ly/mffLskb #ai #education #learning
"It's tempting to fear AI slop, because it's here and it's going to get worse. But there's human slop all over the internet, and it's getting worse as well."
buff.ly/NER4usm #ai #preexisting #slop
buff.ly/NER4usm #ai #preexisting #slop
Walk away or dance
AI and LLMs pose a particularly visceral threat to the typing class. Writers, editors, poets, freelancers, marketing copywriters and others are voicing reasonable (and unreasonable) objections to t…
buff.ly
September 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"It's tempting to fear AI slop, because it's here and it's going to get worse. But there's human slop all over the internet, and it's getting worse as well."
buff.ly/NER4usm #ai #preexisting #slop
buff.ly/NER4usm #ai #preexisting #slop
"There is a famous study saying it takes people 23 minutes to get to full productivity after an interruption, which seems like it is correlated to the time it takes them to deeply cohere their attentional field."
buff.ly/mwZJ1K8 #attention #focus
buff.ly/mwZJ1K8 #attention #focus
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom
When people talk about the value of paying attention and slowing down, they often make it sound prudish and monk-like. But we shouldn’t forget how interesting and overpoweringly pleasurable sustained...
buff.ly
September 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"There is a famous study saying it takes people 23 minutes to get to full productivity after an interruption, which seems like it is correlated to the time it takes them to deeply cohere their attentional field."
buff.ly/mwZJ1K8 #attention #focus
buff.ly/mwZJ1K8 #attention #focus
"Here's the twist: the massive training costs and compute requirements that make today's AI leaders seem unassailable might actually democratize the technology."
buff.ly/WjKphIY #ai #bubble
buff.ly/WjKphIY #ai #bubble
The Bubble That Knows It's a Bubble
The four words that precede every crash: “This time is different.”
buff.ly
September 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Here's the twist: the massive training costs and compute requirements that make today's AI leaders seem unassailable might actually democratize the technology."
buff.ly/WjKphIY #ai #bubble
buff.ly/WjKphIY #ai #bubble
"The critical skill shifts from making changes carefully to reviewing changes effectively. Suddenly we're spending most of our time on a task the IDE barely acknowledges exists."
buff.ly/CcgR0qu #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience
buff.ly/CcgR0qu #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience
Beyond the IDE
Patch Boards to IDEs
buff.ly
September 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"The critical skill shifts from making changes carefully to reviewing changes effectively. Suddenly we're spending most of our time on a task the IDE barely acknowledges exists."
buff.ly/CcgR0qu #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience
buff.ly/CcgR0qu #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience
"Complete bullshit, but, I guess he still has one month to go."
buff.ly/yIdRBXn #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #productivity
buff.ly/yIdRBXn #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #productivity
Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Five Months Ago
Link to: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-code-3-to-6-months-2025-3
buff.ly
August 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Complete bullshit, but, I guess he still has one month to go."
buff.ly/yIdRBXn #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #productivity
buff.ly/yIdRBXn #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #productivity