Link: Why USA 1.0 failed
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youtube.com
Today is a good day to watch this video and be reminded that change is possible and that revolutions don’t always require blood. Even the Constitution can be amended.
Links
Things worth reading or watching, with a bit of my commentary.
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Link: Is it ethical to use AI?
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charity.wtf
I previously suggested that I might write about my thoughts on the ethics of generative AI. Now I don’t need to, because Charity Majors covered just about everything I wanted to. Of course she did it way better than I could have.
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Link: Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
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lalitm.com
Lalit Maganti and I have a similar experience with the need to constantly refactor when building a project with a coding agent.
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Link: Dual-loop BDD is the new Red-green TDD
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justin.searls.co
Agents prompted with “red-green TDD” write most of the tests first, then all the code — skipping the part of TDD that actually matters. Dual-loop BDD might be a better prompt strategy.
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Surviving the AI Revolution in Software Development
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mysteriousrook.medium.com
A wonderful essay by Ed Lyons, offering lessons for surviving the AI revolution in software development — including “stop listening to people who are afraid” and “seek first-hand testimony, not opinions.”
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Good Taste
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emsh.cat
embedding-shapes writes about how having good taste is the human differentiator — the hard thing has never been producing something, but producing something good. They’re right, but I have to wonder if enough employers care about good taste.
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Tahoe’s Windows
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daringfireball.net
John Gruber is scathing about macOS Tahoe’s window corners. In general I think the larger corner radiuses look fine. But if Apple really wanted to make this new look functional they really needed to rethink how windows work at a more fundamental level…
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Where Are the Test Driven Agentic Workflows, Anyway?
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blog.fsck.com
I’ve been thinking that we’re probably not that far away from seeing a decent boost in quality from coding agents that implement a Test Driven Development workflow.
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I’m Not Sweating My AI Energy Usage
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simonpcouch.com
Simon P. Couch used energy-per-token estimates to calculate his AI coding energy use. This number matches my mental model for my own AI energy use…
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