I think that it's great how we all suddenly became capable of completely and precisely specifying software systems in natural languages after 7 decades of failing miserably at it.
They can't even give the stuff away
Every year I hope the software engineering profession will pass through the barrier where a bunch of people in a room writing stuff on Post-It notes no longer counts as "research"
LOL. I say "formal specification" and most folks think I mean:
"Dear sir/madam,
Re: our previous software requirement..."
Dumped my AI-Ready Software Developer series into a document. It's about half a book.
The second half, I'm thinking, will be practical demonstrations of key workflows like TDD, refactoring and CI both with and without "AI". (Without first, obvs)
This is clearly fine with the GOP.
I'm surprised autocomplete didn't see that coming
BREAKING: “3 U.S bombers took off from a UK airbase yesterday. They were about defensive strikes in Iran. What are defensive strikes?” - Sky’s Sophy Ridge asks Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
Executable tests are pretty precise
In pairing sessions - with and without "AI" - I've been saying "let's drop a gear" when a problem turns out to have a steeper gradient than we or the model can handle. Turns out it has a basis in probability and LLM mechanics.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/t...
I was lucky to meet him a couple of times - we had a nice lunch in Cambridge way back in his early Microsoft days. A true gent.
It's sad that it's not been reported at all here in the UK media - not even the tech media.
I prefer to use examples to clarify.
I think that it's great how we all suddenly became capable of completely and precisely specifying software systems in natural languages after 7 decades of failing miserably at it.
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
Hi @theguardian.com. Very disappointed to see that the passing of one of the most influential people in computing history, Prof Sir Tony Hoare, doesn't seem to have been reported.
Check out the Claude Code issues page
In today’s game of Make Millions With Market Manipulation:
1. Energy Secretary posts that a tanker has been safely escorted through Hormuz.
2. Oil price falls 10%, friends buy.
3. Energy Secretary deletes post.
4. Oil price rises 12%, friends richer.
Thank you for playing, see you all tomorrow.
More dates being added - but this is April/May/June book tour so far
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The Trump White House is gaslighting us again, this time over the massacre of scores of Iranian children by the U.S. military. Despite clear evidence of this, they are insisting that Iran bombed its own school. That’s a lie. My write-up in the replies.
A chat with a senior engineering leader this morning. Many thoughts about where their 1000+ team could improve things for the business.
"AI" not mentioned once. It hasn't come up in a single conversation with at that level recently.
This is quite possibly the most absurd moderation I've ever seen on social media.
At this point, why is anybody still thinking he's playing 4D chess? He doesn't even know what day of the week it is.
Great reporting from @rafeuddin.ft.com on Amazon's misadventures with AI coding (which have coincided with big headcount reductions) www.ft.com/content/7cab...
Looks like I've managed to get "blast radius" into the software engineering lexicon :-)
Compiling a list of frontier LLMs created in functioning democracies by companies not aligned to dictators.
It's quite a short list.
New: A Houston woman is suing Tesla in Harris County, alleging that her Cybertruck, while using Tesla's "Full Self-Driving mode" tried to drive the car off of a bridge. Here is the dashcam footage provided by her lawyers: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
I'm not sure. It seems to be coming from sources like Hacker News and Lobster. Nothing in mainstream tech news yet.
