Alfred Brose
@alfredbrose.dev
Everyone needs to understand how propaganda really works. It doesn’t make you immune, but hopefully gives you a better understanding of how it manipulates you into indifference and helps you to resist it. youtu.be/BY9uuxC_YAQ?...
I’m Russian. Here’s how propaganda really works.
YouTube video by Silent East
youtu.be
January 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Everyone needs to understand how propaganda really works. It doesn’t make you immune, but hopefully gives you a better understanding of how it manipulates you into indifference and helps you to resist it. youtu.be/BY9uuxC_YAQ?...
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Because of the power law distribution of examples coding LLMs are trained on - 99% Stack Overflow answers etc - well-factored code's out-of-distribution.
We shouldn't expect it from them, because they've "seen" so little of it.
It's their "wine glass full to the brim".
We shouldn't expect it from them, because they've "seen" so little of it.
It's their "wine glass full to the brim".
December 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Because of the power law distribution of examples coding LLMs are trained on - 99% Stack Overflow answers etc - well-factored code's out-of-distribution.
We shouldn't expect it from them, because they've "seen" so little of it.
It's their "wine glass full to the brim".
We shouldn't expect it from them, because they've "seen" so little of it.
It's their "wine glass full to the brim".
Reposted by Alfred Brose
This is a depressing but excellent presentation for anyone who has (young) kids and teens.
The internet isn’t the place anymore we grew up with and navigating this with our kids is mandatory. And unfortunately generative AI will only super charge this further.
The internet isn’t the place anymore we grew up with and navigating this with our kids is mandatory. And unfortunately generative AI will only super charge this further.
Watching this should be mandatory for parents. Especially before they let their pre-teen on Roblox and Snapchat.
Won't somebody please think of the children!? – Niall Merrigan – HelloStavanger 2025
YouTube video by HelloStavanger
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is a depressing but excellent presentation for anyone who has (young) kids and teens.
The internet isn’t the place anymore we grew up with and navigating this with our kids is mandatory. And unfortunately generative AI will only super charge this further.
The internet isn’t the place anymore we grew up with and navigating this with our kids is mandatory. And unfortunately generative AI will only super charge this further.
Are these scientists in the room with us now?
Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Are these scientists in the room with us now?
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Mostly because it doesn't work
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Mostly because it doesn't work
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I wrote a blog post about how very, very important naming is in modular software design which you will completely agree with even though you're not going to read it.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w...
What’s In A Name?
The idea of “separation of concerns” originated from a need to make it possible for programmers to reason about a piece of code without the need to understand what’s going on insi…
codemanship.wordpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I wrote a blog post about how very, very important naming is in modular software design which you will completely agree with even though you're not going to read it.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w...
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On the blog: Think for Yourself
"By skimming past the friction necessary for learning, the pursuit of convenience can end up deskilling rather than enhancing skills."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
"By skimming past the friction necessary for learning, the pursuit of convenience can end up deskilling rather than enhancing skills."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
Think for Yourself
Understand and improve on LLM-generated code
kevlinhenney.medium.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
On the blog: Think for Yourself
"By skimming past the friction necessary for learning, the pursuit of convenience can end up deskilling rather than enhancing skills."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
"By skimming past the friction necessary for learning, the pursuit of convenience can end up deskilling rather than enhancing skills."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
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“Don’t accept code that is worse than what you would have written.”
AMEN
AMEN
On the blog: Think for Yourself
"By skimming past the friction necessary for learning, the pursuit of convenience can end up deskilling rather than enhancing skills."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
"By skimming past the friction necessary for learning, the pursuit of convenience can end up deskilling rather than enhancing skills."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
Think for Yourself
Understand and improve on LLM-generated code
kevlinhenney.medium.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“Don’t accept code that is worse than what you would have written.”
AMEN
AMEN
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"They're lies. These companies are lying to people."
@chrissimon.au on the idea of infinite storytelling from an AI Dungeon Master, and how a creative human can prompt them away from the mean.
@chrissimon.au on the idea of infinite storytelling from an AI Dungeon Master, and how a creative human can prompt them away from the mean.
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"They're lies. These companies are lying to people."
@chrissimon.au on the idea of infinite storytelling from an AI Dungeon Master, and how a creative human can prompt them away from the mean.
@chrissimon.au on the idea of infinite storytelling from an AI Dungeon Master, and how a creative human can prompt them away from the mean.
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This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal/
https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659188615376
https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659188615376
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
The Python Software Foundation was recently "recommended for funding" (NSF terminology) for a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation to help improve the security of the Python …
simonwillison.net
October 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal/
https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659188615376
https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659188615376
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A helpful explanation of why LLM performance degrades rapidly with increasing context size, and why the *effective* maximum context size is orders of magnitude smaller than the one they sold you.
www.ashisharora.ai/post/the-hid...
www.ashisharora.ai/post/the-hid...
The Hidden Science Behind LLM Token Limits (And How Million-Token Models Actually Work)
Introduction"Why can't I just paste my entire company's documentation into ChatGPT?"If I had a dollar for every time I've heard this question in my two years as a Generative AI consultant, I could pro...
www.ashisharora.ai
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A helpful explanation of why LLM performance degrades rapidly with increasing context size, and why the *effective* maximum context size is orders of magnitude smaller than the one they sold you.
www.ashisharora.ai/post/the-hid...
www.ashisharora.ai/post/the-hid...
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Effective separation of concerns in software designs is the key to reducing cognitive load when trying to understand and change code.
It turns out that’s good advice when working with LLMs, too.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/t...
It turns out that’s good advice when working with LLMs, too.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/t...
The AI-Ready Software Developer #1 – Separation of Concerns
Can we talk about separation of concerns and cognitive load? One thing about LLM coding assistants that’s very interesting is how they tend to crap out on code that has poor separation of con…
codemanship.wordpress.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Effective separation of concerns in software designs is the key to reducing cognitive load when trying to understand and change code.
It turns out that’s good advice when working with LLMs, too.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/t...
It turns out that’s good advice when working with LLMs, too.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/t...
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Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
Bald könnten ALLE Chat-Nachrichten von den Behörden durchsucht werden – selbst ohne Verdacht! Das entscheiden *heute* die Minister*innen. Sag Nein zur Chatkontrolle! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...
Chatkontrolle stoppen!
Die EU-Kommission will Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp und Signal zwingen, alle privaten Nachrichten und Fotos in Echtzeit zu scannen. Angeblich zum Kinderschutz. In Wahrheit bedeutet die Chatkontrolle...
weact.campact.de
October 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Bald könnten ALLE Chat-Nachrichten von den Behörden durchsucht werden – selbst ohne Verdacht! Das entscheiden *heute* die Minister*innen. Sag Nein zur Chatkontrolle! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...
100 times this!
as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
October 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
100 times this!
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ICYMI: I wrote about how your domains and bounded contexts don't map 1 on 1. #DDDesign
verraes.net/2025/08/doma...
verraes.net/2025/08/doma...
No, Your Domains and Bounded Contexts Don’t Map 1 on 1
Bounded Contexts are a design choice to suit engineering needs
verraes.net
September 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
ICYMI: I wrote about how your domains and bounded contexts don't map 1 on 1. #DDDesign
verraes.net/2025/08/doma...
verraes.net/2025/08/doma...
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"It is time to stop pretending that we are just one more model away from magic. We are not. The magic trick is over. The rabbit is not coming out of the hat."
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/t...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/t...
The LLM In The Room: ChatGPT Speaks
With the long-awaited and much anticipated launch yesterday of the mythical GPT-5, and observing the widespread disappointment that it isn’t just not the superintelligence we were promised, b…
codemanship.wordpress.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
"It is time to stop pretending that we are just one more model away from magic. We are not. The magic trick is over. The rabbit is not coming out of the hat."
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/t...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/t...
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NEW POST
@xpmatteo.bsky.social shows why the common metric of AI code acceptance has big hole. LLM can be helpful even if you throw away its code.
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
@xpmatteo.bsky.social shows why the common metric of AI code acceptance has big hole. LLM can be helpful even if you throw away its code.
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
Partner with the AI, throw away the code
Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
martinfowler.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
NEW POST
@xpmatteo.bsky.social shows why the common metric of AI code acceptance has big hole. LLM can be helpful even if you throw away its code.
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
@xpmatteo.bsky.social shows why the common metric of AI code acceptance has big hole. LLM can be helpful even if you throw away its code.
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
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I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg
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Sätze, die man aus einigen Ecken nicht hört:
„Natürlich hat der Iran ein Recht auf Selbstverteidigung, aber auch die Pflicht zur Klugheit, einzusehen, wann man sich ergeben muss.“
„Weder Sanktionen noch Waffenlieferungen stoppen diesen Horror“
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„Natürlich hat der Iran ein Recht auf Selbstverteidigung, aber auch die Pflicht zur Klugheit, einzusehen, wann man sich ergeben muss.“
„Weder Sanktionen noch Waffenlieferungen stoppen diesen Horror“
1
June 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Sätze, die man aus einigen Ecken nicht hört:
„Natürlich hat der Iran ein Recht auf Selbstverteidigung, aber auch die Pflicht zur Klugheit, einzusehen, wann man sich ergeben muss.“
„Weder Sanktionen noch Waffenlieferungen stoppen diesen Horror“
1
„Natürlich hat der Iran ein Recht auf Selbstverteidigung, aber auch die Pflicht zur Klugheit, einzusehen, wann man sich ergeben muss.“
„Weder Sanktionen noch Waffenlieferungen stoppen diesen Horror“
1
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Nochmal im Klartext: Im Jahr 2050 hat der dritte Planet dieses Sonnensystems 500 ppm CO₂ in der Atmosphäre und +2,5 °C Erhitzung. Einfach linear extrapoliert. Das ist das brutale numerische Maß für -alles- Weitere. Es geht in dieser Zeit nun vor allem um eines: die Menschlichkeit nicht zu verlieren.
June 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Nochmal im Klartext: Im Jahr 2050 hat der dritte Planet dieses Sonnensystems 500 ppm CO₂ in der Atmosphäre und +2,5 °C Erhitzung. Einfach linear extrapoliert. Das ist das brutale numerische Maß für -alles- Weitere. Es geht in dieser Zeit nun vor allem um eines: die Menschlichkeit nicht zu verlieren.
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Uncertainty and
anxiety-driven clarity vs.
curiosity-driven clarity – emergent, sustainable clarity
—from @neuranne.bsky.social
in @bigthink.com Smarter, Faster
bigthink.com/smart-skills...
#neuroscience #psychology
anxiety-driven clarity vs.
curiosity-driven clarity – emergent, sustainable clarity
—from @neuranne.bsky.social
in @bigthink.com Smarter, Faster
bigthink.com/smart-skills...
#neuroscience #psychology
The hidden cost of chasing clarity
Uncertainty can trigger stress responses that make quick clarity feel rewarding, even when it doesn't align with your goals and values.
bigthink.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Uncertainty and
anxiety-driven clarity vs.
curiosity-driven clarity – emergent, sustainable clarity
—from @neuranne.bsky.social
in @bigthink.com Smarter, Faster
bigthink.com/smart-skills...
#neuroscience #psychology
anxiety-driven clarity vs.
curiosity-driven clarity – emergent, sustainable clarity
—from @neuranne.bsky.social
in @bigthink.com Smarter, Faster
bigthink.com/smart-skills...
#neuroscience #psychology
My own Wim Hof morning routine - taking a look on my stocks and funds portfolio. Works way better than cold plunges. Gets the juices flowing nicely :).
April 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My own Wim Hof morning routine - taking a look on my stocks and funds portfolio. Works way better than cold plunges. Gets the juices flowing nicely :).
Reposted by Alfred Brose
Reposted by Alfred Brose
What the duck is going on in tech?
We talk about performance. We rarely talk about the pressure behind it!
I wrote about the duck syndrome and why pretending to be fine is exhausting.
🦆 medium.com/@aichalaafia...
We talk about performance. We rarely talk about the pressure behind it!
I wrote about the duck syndrome and why pretending to be fine is exhausting.
🦆 medium.com/@aichalaafia...
April 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
What the duck is going on in tech?
We talk about performance. We rarely talk about the pressure behind it!
I wrote about the duck syndrome and why pretending to be fine is exhausting.
🦆 medium.com/@aichalaafia...
We talk about performance. We rarely talk about the pressure behind it!
I wrote about the duck syndrome and why pretending to be fine is exhausting.
🦆 medium.com/@aichalaafia...