Christoph Wille
@willechristoph.bsky.social
Freelance Senior Dev / Solution Architect, working with .NET and Azure, ILSpy contributor https://github.com/christophwille
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Chris Lattner is one of the most influential engineers of the past two decades. He created LLVM, Swift, contributed to TensorFlow, and created the Mojo language.
What was the story about creating Swift - and why did he face resistance inside Apple when wanting to replace Objective C?
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What was the story about creating Swift - and why did he face resistance inside Apple when wanting to replace Objective C?
(cont'd)
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Chris Lattner is one of the most influential engineers of the past two decades. He created LLVM, Swift, contributed to TensorFlow, and created the Mojo language.
What was the story about creating Swift - and why did he face resistance inside Apple when wanting to replace Objective C?
(cont'd)
What was the story about creating Swift - and why did he face resistance inside Apple when wanting to replace Objective C?
(cont'd)
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The promise of AI chat assistants: they solve 90% of the problems users have (by looking up the docs and telling them)
My reality: need to spend 10 minutes trying to get to a human, to solve an issue I need customer support to look into
Around minute 8 I sign up to a competitor
My reality: need to spend 10 minutes trying to get to a human, to solve an issue I need customer support to look into
Around minute 8 I sign up to a competitor
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The promise of AI chat assistants: they solve 90% of the problems users have (by looking up the docs and telling them)
My reality: need to spend 10 minutes trying to get to a human, to solve an issue I need customer support to look into
Around minute 8 I sign up to a competitor
My reality: need to spend 10 minutes trying to get to a human, to solve an issue I need customer support to look into
Around minute 8 I sign up to a competitor
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New on the blog: Think for Yourself
"You're about to commit a chunk of LLM-generated code into your product's codebase. Before you do, however, pause to consider and act on these questions."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
"You're about to commit a chunk of LLM-generated code into your product's codebase. Before you do, however, pause to consider and act on these questions."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
Think for Yourself
Understand and improve on LLM-generated code
kevlinhenney.medium.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
New on the blog: Think for Yourself
"You're about to commit a chunk of LLM-generated code into your product's codebase. Before you do, however, pause to consider and act on these questions."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
"You're about to commit a chunk of LLM-generated code into your product's codebase. Before you do, however, pause to consider and act on these questions."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
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If I ever become Ruler of the World, I'll shut down AWS us-east-1 every couple of years just to see who is dependent on it.
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If I ever become Ruler of the World, I'll shut down AWS us-east-1 every couple of years just to see who is dependent on it.
The talk recording from @lauratacho.com at Cloud Native Days Austria is available, highly recommended to watch (AI minus BS) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ1F...
Why DevEx Matters
YouTube video by Cloud Native Days Austria
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The talk recording from @lauratacho.com at Cloud Native Days Austria is available, highly recommended to watch (AI minus BS) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ1F...
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Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability.
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/
This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to su...
www.wheresyoured.at
October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability.
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/
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However, companies will start hiring again simply because work needs to get done, and they can't get that work done cost-effectively with vibe coding and no people. They'll have to pay through the nose for those programmers, but that's just poetic justice. It's fine by me.
7/7
7/7
October 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
However, companies will start hiring again simply because work needs to get done, and they can't get that work done cost-effectively with vibe coding and no people. They'll have to pay through the nose for those programmers, but that's just poetic justice. It's fine by me.
7/7
7/7
This learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer... is a prime example of unhelpful copy paste of AI slop. AI rephrasing my question and the "support guy" not giving a shit. #dotnet #Microsoft #Azure
Is there an updated NuGet/Source Code for Microsoft.Web.Deployment? - Microsoft Q&A
Package in question: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Web.Deployment/
We are using it in a C# application to deploy to App Service - that "idea" is not something we came up with, but lifted fr...
learn.microsoft.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer... is a prime example of unhelpful copy paste of AI slop. AI rephrasing my question and the "support guy" not giving a shit. #dotnet #Microsoft #Azure
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Business is rapidly achieving peak bullshit.
decision.substack.com/p/have-you-b...
decision.substack.com/p/have-you-b...
Have You Been Workslopped Yet?
AI is making you clean up your colleague's mess. Here's what should you do about it.
decision.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Business is rapidly achieving peak bullshit.
decision.substack.com/p/have-you-b...
decision.substack.com/p/have-you-b...
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How many folks have actually experienced a CEO or manager pressuring them to use AI in a way that's dumb or out of touch?
October 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
How many folks have actually experienced a CEO or manager pressuring them to use AI in a way that's dumb or out of touch?
Use Hugging Face Inference Providers with GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code huggingface.co/docs/inferen...
🤗 Use Hugging Face Inference Providers with GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
September 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Use Hugging Face Inference Providers with GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code huggingface.co/docs/inferen...
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Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is now available for download. Check out the announcement and try it out for yourself!
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance impr...
devblogs.microsoft.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is now available for download. Check out the announcement and try it out for yourself!
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
If you haven't yet, make sure to watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHHl...
Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho
YouTube video by The Pragmatic Engineer
www.youtube.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
If you haven't yet, make sure to watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHHl...
Cory Doctorow at CF25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-...
Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
YouTube video by CloudFest
www.youtube.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Cory Doctorow at CF25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-...
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Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
How To Argue With An AI Booster
Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents. This is my longest newsletter - a 16,000-word-long opus - and if you like...
www.wheresyoured.at
August 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
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Took some time today to catch up with Johann Rehberger's Month of AI Bugs and wow... 15 examples so far of major prompt injection vulnerabilities in products including ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Amp, Devin, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and Google Jules simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/...
The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see
Independent AI researcher Johann Rehberger (previously) has had an absurdly busy August. Under the heading The Month of AI Bugs he has been publishing one report per day across an …
simonwillison.net
August 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Took some time today to catch up with Johann Rehberger's Month of AI Bugs and wow... 15 examples so far of major prompt injection vulnerabilities in products including ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Amp, Devin, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and Google Jules simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/...
THAT www.techradar.com/computing/wi... will actually even make me consider leaving Windows behind.
Microsoft exec imagines future Windows 'actually looking at your screen' and using AI to get things done easily - a computing utopia, or a bone-chilling nightmare?
Others may welcome AI and cloud-powered advances, though
www.techradar.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
THAT www.techradar.com/computing/wi... will actually even make me consider leaving Windows behind.
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People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just lying. Or both.
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Requiem for a 10x Engineer Dream
People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just l...
www.architecture-weekly.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just lying. Or both.
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We recently ran an experiment to explore how far GenAI can currently be pushed toward autonomously developing high-quality, up-to-date software without human intervention, and gather observations about where it breaks down.
martinfowler.com/articles/pus...
martinfowler.com/articles/pus...
How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation?
An experiment to test the limits of autonomous code generation by LLMs
martinfowler.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We recently ran an experiment to explore how far GenAI can currently be pushed toward autonomously developing high-quality, up-to-date software without human intervention, and gather observations about where it breaks down.
martinfowler.com/articles/pus...
martinfowler.com/articles/pus...
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A #csharp 14.0 feature to expect in the next #ILSpy preview for #dotnet 10 is extension members (not final, see github.com/icsharpcode/...)
August 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A #csharp 14.0 feature to expect in the next #ILSpy preview for #dotnet 10 is extension members (not final, see github.com/icsharpcode/...)
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Pretty decent pelicans from the new GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air models. Both models are MIT licensed, released by Chinese AI lab Z.ai this morning
simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/...
July 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Pretty decent pelicans from the new GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air models. Both models are MIT licensed, released by Chinese AI lab Z.ai this morning
simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/...
This preview is actually the precursor to our discussions on overload resolutions in Vienna at our dev days github.com/icsharpcode/...
July 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This preview is actually the precursor to our discussions on overload resolutions in Vienna at our dev days github.com/icsharpcode/...
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Aspire is growing up.
Better local dev workflows.
Testing you can see.
Polyglot by default.
A clearer path to deployment.
We just published the roadmap—come take a look:
👉 github.com/dotnet/aspir...
#aspire #dotnet
Better local dev workflows.
Testing you can see.
Polyglot by default.
A clearer path to deployment.
We just published the roadmap—come take a look:
👉 github.com/dotnet/aspir...
#aspire #dotnet
Aspire Roadmap (2025 → 2026) · dotnet aspire · Discussion #10644
Hi everyone 💫 We’ve had so much fun building, learning, and Aspirifying with you over the last year. As many of you have noticed, there are lots of exciting things in the works, and we figured it w...
github.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Aspire is growing up.
Better local dev workflows.
Testing you can see.
Polyglot by default.
A clearer path to deployment.
We just published the roadmap—come take a look:
👉 github.com/dotnet/aspir...
#aspire #dotnet
Better local dev workflows.
Testing you can see.
Polyglot by default.
A clearer path to deployment.
We just published the roadmap—come take a look:
👉 github.com/dotnet/aspir...
#aspire #dotnet
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Two significant new model releases from Alibaba Qwen in the past two days: yesterday Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, today Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct - both Apache 2 licensed, both very impressive
My notes and SVG pelicans: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/... and simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/...
My notes and SVG pelicans: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/... and simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/...
July 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Two significant new model releases from Alibaba Qwen in the past two days: yesterday Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, today Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct - both Apache 2 licensed, both very impressive
My notes and SVG pelicans: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/... and simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/...
My notes and SVG pelicans: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/... and simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/...