Bill Pugh
@bill-pugh.bsky.social
Retired Professor of computer science at UMD, and engineer at Apple on exposure notifications.
Active maker, burner, traveler, husband, father.
Active maker, burner, traveler, husband, father.
For anyone thinking about how to update CS curriculums to reflect the impact of GenAI on software development, you definitely need to check out this web page. www.teachcswithai.org
GenAI in CS Education Consortium
Shaping the Future of Computer Science Education in the Age of AI. Everything instructors need to get started integrating AI into their CS courses.
www.teachcswithai.org
August 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
For anyone thinking about how to update CS curriculums to reflect the impact of GenAI on software development, you definitely need to check out this web page. www.teachcswithai.org
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Over the last two years we have seen an acceleration on AI, but if AI is going to enable humans in their day to day tasks, it most probably will be via XR. The issue then is if a selection has real-world consequences, we will need great precision to interact.
August 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Over the last two years we have seen an acceleration on AI, but if AI is going to enable humans in their day to day tasks, it most probably will be via XR. The issue then is if a selection has real-world consequences, we will need great precision to interact.
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“Both of them.”
August 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“Both of them.”
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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This billionaire’s fortune is built atop research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and yet he seeks to destroy that agency and its investments in the scientific engine that has fueled our tech industry since the 1950s. And why? Because it tried to include more diverse scholars?
"The investor described a 'counterattack' against universities in his messages and called for the National Science Foundation, a federal research funding agency, to receive 'the bureaucratic death penalty.'" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”
www.washingtonpost.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This billionaire’s fortune is built atop research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and yet he seeks to destroy that agency and its investments in the scientific engine that has fueled our tech industry since the 1950s. And why? Because it tried to include more diverse scholars?
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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Risky post!
(This is great, fun to read and the frustrated tone throughout really does capture how it feels sometimes to be an experienced programmer trying to argue that "LLMs are actually really useful" in many corners of the internet)
(This is great, fun to read and the frustrated tone throughout really does capture how it feels sometimes to be an experienced programmer trying to argue that "LLMs are actually really useful" in many corners of the internet)
June 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Risky post!
(This is great, fun to read and the frustrated tone throughout really does capture how it feels sometimes to be an experienced programmer trying to argue that "LLMs are actually really useful" in many corners of the internet)
(This is great, fun to read and the frustrated tone throughout really does capture how it feels sometimes to be an experienced programmer trying to argue that "LLMs are actually really useful" in many corners of the internet)
Playing with using Gemini for code generation. Overall smart, but occasionally wrong in weird ways. In some Java code in one place, it threw in an extra right parenthesis.
In Swift code, it used calls to checkedMul to avoid integer overflow, but that is a Rust feature and not supported in swift.
In Swift code, it used calls to checkedMul to avoid integer overflow, but that is a Rust feature and not supported in swift.
May 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Playing with using Gemini for code generation. Overall smart, but occasionally wrong in weird ways. In some Java code in one place, it threw in an extra right parenthesis.
In Swift code, it used calls to checkedMul to avoid integer overflow, but that is a Rust feature and not supported in swift.
In Swift code, it used calls to checkedMul to avoid integer overflow, but that is a Rust feature and not supported in swift.
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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also got my first NSF grant terminated! what emoji do i put in my handle to signify this?
April 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
also got my first NSF grant terminated! what emoji do i put in my handle to signify this?
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for anyone else in the united states, and quite possibly for jordan wick as well, this is a go-to-prison-forever level offense
DOGE bro Jordan Wick caught with a tool the name of which indicates a NRLB system exploit
"the NxGen case management system hosts proprietary data from corporate competitors, personal information about union members or employees voting to join a union, and witness testimony in ongoing cases."
"the NxGen case management system hosts proprietary data from corporate competitors, personal information about union members or employees voting to join a union, and witness testimony in ongoing cases."
April 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
for anyone else in the united states, and quite possibly for jordan wick as well, this is a go-to-prison-forever level offense
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niche but here goes: if you met your sugar daddy/mama online but NOT on a dating app — I’d like to talk.
Plz RT, this is a tough one journalistically lol
Plz RT, this is a tough one journalistically lol
April 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
niche but here goes: if you met your sugar daddy/mama online but NOT on a dating app — I’d like to talk.
Plz RT, this is a tough one journalistically lol
Plz RT, this is a tough one journalistically lol
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Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.
April 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.
Does anyone have pointers to efforts by CS departments to update their curriculums in anticipation of the changes in tasks and skill sets that will be needed by software developers when/if coding assistants become widely used?
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April 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Does anyone have pointers to efforts by CS departments to update their curriculums in anticipation of the changes in tasks and skill sets that will be needed by software developers when/if coding assistants become widely used?
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It would be really nice if BlueSky didn’t put 60 different posts in my feed all sharing the same news article. Maybe group them some how (here are 60 different posts all commenting on this article).
Particularly bad is @wired.com reposting every single post commenting on one of their articles
Particularly bad is @wired.com reposting every single post commenting on one of their articles
March 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It would be really nice if BlueSky didn’t put 60 different posts in my feed all sharing the same news article. Maybe group them some how (here are 60 different posts all commenting on this article).
Particularly bad is @wired.com reposting every single post commenting on one of their articles
Particularly bad is @wired.com reposting every single post commenting on one of their articles
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These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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U.K. tourist Becky Burke finally returned home to Wales on Tuesday after spending 19 days in a U.S. ICE detention facility. Her parents relayed their daughter’s description of her release from ICE, saying how she was taken in “leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs,” which left her “traumatized.”
U.K. Tourist Returns Home in Chains Like ‘Hannibal Lecter’
Becky Burke was released in chains and handcuffs after spending 19 days in an ICE detention facility
www.thedailybeast.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
U.K. tourist Becky Burke finally returned home to Wales on Tuesday after spending 19 days in a U.S. ICE detention facility. Her parents relayed their daughter’s description of her release from ICE, saying how she was taken in “leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs,” which left her “traumatized.”
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Many in higher education worry that President Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities leaders are not finding many vocal allies to defend them.
Trump’s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation
Many in higher education worry Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Many in higher education worry that President Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities leaders are not finding many vocal allies to defend them.
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A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
wrd.cm
March 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
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The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
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18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.
March 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.
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former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org
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Narrating my work in public: my latest post about the virtual event I'm developing on the topic of coding with AI, The End of Software Development as we Know It.
Ascending Levels of Nerd
Building on Harper Reed’s “My LLM Codegen Workflow ATM”
www.oreilly.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Narrating my work in public: my latest post about the virtual event I'm developing on the topic of coding with AI, The End of Software Development as we Know It.