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Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

If my memory serves me correctly, Nassim Nicholas Taleb was one of those who justified it.

maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 17h

One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.

November 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 3h

I know I shared this story many times in many ways and places, but once, when I was a young grad student, at a conference where there were about 100 men and only a handful of women...

maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 17h

One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.

November 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

The C Programming Language @c-official.bsky.social · 20h

Recursion is a mental illness. You want to do WHAT to my call stack?? How do people think it's natural to put a thing inside itself? Literally makes me sick just thinking about it

November 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

In the past, I thought like them.

We can't do anything. LLMs are here to stay.
But thanks to several people (Gisele Secco, @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social, @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @hagenblix.bsky.social) I changed my mind.

Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · 13h

You’re a Computer Science Major. Don’t Panic.
Mary Shaw and Michael Hilton (Carnegie Mellon University)
The New York Times
Guest essay
archive.is/Eo4Sd

archive.is

November 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

LLMs are being used to generate fake references (hallucinated references).

This one happened to Lidiany Cerqueira in a published material, but I have seen many others in non published material.

**Top Section:**
**REAL REFERENCE**
CERQUEIRA, Lidiany et al. Assessing Software Practitioners’ Work Engagement and Job Satisfaction in a Large Software Company—What We Have Learned. SN Computer Science, v. 6, n. 3, p. 273, 2025.

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**Middle Section:**
Image of a person with a noose around their neck, smiling, with the caption:
**- First time?**

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**Bottom Section:**
**HALLUCINATED REFERENCE**
Cerqueira, M., Tavares, A., Couto, C., Maciel, R., Santos, D., & Figueira, A. (2025). Assessing software practitioners’ work engagement and job satisfaction. Journal of Systems and Software, 212, 111050.

November 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM

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Emily M. Bender

@emilymbender.bsky.social

It's 2025 and still there are people who apparently feel comfortable making top-10 lists of "greatest male x" but forgetting to specify "male". (In this case, x was "AI linguists" which I think meant "linguists whose work you might care about if you're trying to build 'AI'".)

November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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Andy Zaidman

@azaidman.bsky.social

📣📣 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀!

We're running a study at TU Delft on 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. We would love your insights! (takes 15 minutes)
👉 lnkd.in/dPPF6-Vq

The more voices, the better!

Thank you 💙

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareTesting

November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

You’re a Computer Science Major. Don’t Panic.
Mary Shaw and Michael Hilton (Carnegie Mellon University)
The New York Times
Guest essay
archive.is/Eo4Sd

archive.is

November 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Exploring Empathy in Software Engineering: Insights from a Grey Literature Analysis of Practitioners’ Perspectives
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Exploring Empathy in Software Engineering: Insights from a Grey Literature Analysis of Practitioners’ Perspectives | ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Context. Empathy, a key social skill, is essential for communication and collaboration in SE but remains an under-researched topic. Aims. This study investigates empathy in SE from practitioners’ pers...

dl.acm.org

November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow pocketcasts.com/podcast/fact...

The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

pocketcasts.com

November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Não gerem referências falsas usando LLMs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLUH...

Impactos de IA em Engenharia de Software: Um Exercício de Síntese, Marco Tulio Valente

YouTube video by Fronteiras da Engenharia de Software

www.youtube.com

November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Cal meets Ed

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8d

It was really nice of Cal Newport to give me this shoutout about the AI bubble and how long I've been at this, and I appreciate anyone who has kept reading my work this long too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RI...

November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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Dr Abeba Birhane

@abeba.bsky.social

training data is literally the most important ‘ingredient’ that can reveal so much about model behaviour

but again, opening up your training data is like putting your dirty laundry out and can bring an entire company down

November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM

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Zach Daniel

@zachdaniel.dev

My wife pulled a classic move and got me a cake 😂 What a gal!

November 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

"I could no longer accept to work in a place that attempts to suppress speech against Zionism and genocide, and I am happy that I can move to a place that supports its academics to speak out."

www.voxweb.nl/en/social-ge...

Social geographer Harry Pettit is leaving Radboud University: ‘I was threatened with dismissal’ - Vox magazine

Social geographer Harry Pettit is leaving Radboud University. The University reportedly gave him an ultimatum to distance himself from his statements about Israel, or else he would be fired. Pettit is...

www.voxweb.nl

November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM

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tante

@tante.cc

The consequences of the recent GEMA vs. OpenAI decision will be very interesting for "coding agents" and the sources they vomit out. Cause a lot of the code their developers accumulated is GPL-licensed.

November 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM

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Alex Hanna

@alexhanna.bsky.social

Not sure if Karp was already like this. More likely, working on a war machine funded with Thiel whispering sweet anti-Christ nothings has wrecked this man's brain.

Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 1d

Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...

November 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

this is so gross honestly; I'm ashamed to work here: "Radboud’s case against Harry can only make sense within the current political climate that is moving towards fascism. One of the main instruments of fascist movements is to silence critical voices" ans-online.nl/opinie/opini...

[Open Letter] Free Palestine. Fuck Israel – Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad

This open letter was submitted to ANS by several staff members of Radboud University.…

ans-online.nl

November 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Mestrado profissional em Computação Aplicada do PPGCA do Instituto Federal do Maranhão, campus Monte Castelo, em São Luís, MA. O programa oferece duas linhas de pesquisa: Inteligência Artificial Aplicada e Sistemas Computacionais. portal.ifma.edu.br/concursos-e-...

portal.ifma.edu.br

November 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM