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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Nov 25

Work isn't inherently valuable. People are.

#software #productengineering #knowledgework
(also #UniversalBasicIncome)

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 9d

"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…

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:

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 15d

"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

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....

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 16d

"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

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

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · 17d

"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

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…

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Oct 1

"OKRs graphs don't make your teams more focused. Repeated conversations about the goals do."

buff.ly/h6pHIGa #purpose #okrs #focus #knowledgework #goodhartslaw

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Sep 30

"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…

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 18

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.

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Sep 24

"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

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.

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Sep 23

"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…

Objects Are Dead, Long Live Feature Slices

Why I stopped chasing reuse and started writing domain logic around decisions, not abstractions.

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Sep 20

"'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

The enshittification of tech jobs

Our last line of defense has fallen.

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Sep 19

"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

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.

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Sep 18

"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

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…

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Sep 17

"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

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...

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Sep 16

"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

The Bubble That Knows It's a Bubble

The four words that precede every crash: “This time is different.”

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Sep 15

"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

Patch Boards to IDEs

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Complete bullshit, but, I guess he still has one month to go."

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

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Below, in alphabetical order, are some guides to moving to competition that are better-suited for those who don't want to platform hate speech and misinformation."

buff.ly/5rrlm3m #writing #platform #toleranceparadox

You Should Probably Leave Substack

You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Aug 19

"History is best told as a story of organised crime. It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population."

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Aug 18

And to be fair, great software engineering is FAFO, in quick, safe, controlled cycles. Vibe coding removes two of those, and makes the third an illusion.

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Maybe I'm not as fast but I don't have this weird feeling of 'I kinda wrote this code but I actually have no idea what's in it'."

buff.ly/bTdtkcs #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience

After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain • albertofortin.com

I've been building MVPs and SaaS products for 15 years. Let's work together on your next project.

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Aug 17

"As a tailor might stitch together a suit from pieces of textile, so too did the president fashion himself a bespoke garment from the supple threads of the nation's legal fabric."

New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution”

“The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.” “Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the ...

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Aug 16

"The sheer shamelessness of Trump has really disempowered the opposition, because our impulse is to keep looking for the thing that's hidden and expose it, and we think that's going to be what makes the system unravel."

Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’

Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Aug 15

"Philosophers Dreyfus and Kelly explain that this craftsman-like way of being—a poietic way of being, to use the Ancient Greek term—is under threat in our technological age, and I think nothing proves this more than AI and th..."

www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/... #ai #humanity #enlighte…

Tech CEOs don't seem to realise just how anti-human their AI fanaticism is, and I think it's all because of the Enlightenment

I know that sounds bonkers, but just hear me out.

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Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Aug 14

"It's clear from how Lemkin interacted with the AI assistant that he had misconceptions about the AI tool's capabilities and how it works, which comes from misrepresentation by tech companies. These companies tend to mark..."

buff.ly/qHznHmd #ai #safety #marketing #hum…

Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

“I have failed you completely and catastrophically,” wrote Gemini.

Fazzaro @jonfazzaro.bsky.social · Aug 14

"It's simple to set up types that entirely eliminate this class of bug."

buff.ly/2QLxsbX #softwareengineering #developerexperience #types #tools

Use Your Type System

Today I'm discussing a trivially simple technique that I've rarely seen used in production codebases. In programming, we often need to deal with simple values that can be represented by simple, generic...