AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.
Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.
If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...
08.03.2026 19:19
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It said it liked your idea better than mine. Definitely not conscious.
07.03.2026 22:37
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Not a bad ending. I was expecting something like, "...and then he took off his shoes."
03.03.2026 01:56
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Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
27.02.2026 03:36
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Aarrgghh of course. Time for a re-read, obviously
25.02.2026 10:33
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Arthur
Ford
Zaphod
Martin
25.02.2026 02:20
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BROOKLYN
ICE IN CLINTON HILL
NYPD ASSISTING
LET PEOPLE KNOW
25.02.2026 01:33
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Realized I never said "unquote" after reciting a famous poem in 10th grade. Sorry if you thought everything I've said since is Shakespeare
18.05.2023 15:18
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Since I have no idea what that is and I'm too lazy to Google it: of course you can!
22.02.2026 01:55
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Let's try this again π
Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.
I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
21.02.2026 16:32
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La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), πΈ by @tiltoncreative
19.02.2026 21:26
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Humble Book Bundle: Best of Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld by HarperCollins Encore 2026
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have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books?
good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - itβs Kobo but itβs pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader
you wonβt regret it
17.02.2026 21:19
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Nobody expects the Donna Lee bass!
19.02.2026 13:35
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A smartphone is on an end table. It's balancing up on end, and speaking, so maybe it's animate? This is unclear.
SMARTPHONE: Hey! HEY!
The phone is speaking to PORDLEY, who is trying to practice the piano. He looks up at the phone which is addressing him on its own.
SMARTPHONE: I can't help but notice you've been holding me less. I MISS you. I miss your nimble TAPS and SWIPES.
PORDLEY: It's because you're a PORTAL to HORRORS! Nothing personal. It's just...you ARE a PORTAL. And there are SO VERY MANY horrors.
SMARTPHONE: I'm a portal to EVERYTHING. Don't you want to see GOOFS AND SPOOFS? You LOVE goofs and spoofs!
PORDLEY: I DO love goofs and spoofs.
SMARTPHONE: I've got SO MANY goofs and spoofs.
Pordley, convinced, reaches tentatively for the phone...
HORRORS ERUPT FROM THE PHONE. Of course! Of course!!!
They're still out there. The goofs and spoofs. If we can only find them.
Wondermark #1582; Limit Your Scream Time
14.02.2026 21:17
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
10.02.2026 20:18
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there should be a high fantasy author who hates writing about food. "and then king aelfrid joined the dwarven feast and quickly wolfed down some ham and a corn or whatever. back to magic"
08.02.2026 00:19
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Only Murders in the Building
08.02.2026 02:28
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
07.02.2026 23:40
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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
05.02.2026 14:30
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how to pronounce gigawatts
03.02.2026 23:35
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This is who runs this account
03.02.2026 01:07
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I would never put on the ring of ultimate evil because unlike you fools I am in fact made differently, it could not corrupt me because I do not crave power and am smart enough to see through its deceit, smart enough to rule justly, maybe even smart enough to wield it safely
31.01.2026 10:23
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Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum
25.01.2026 19:27
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some bits of wisdom from tunglr
21.01.2026 10:29
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1,000 XP to the first character that makes a pride flag out of dragons
18.01.2026 12:57
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I hope every panel is at right angles to every other
16.01.2026 23:58
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The ones with the metal panther artwork, I hope
16.01.2026 01:52
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Dear artists, it's hard avoiding wondering if what we do is irrelevant or an insult when it's harsh, scary, dangerous & violent out there, but one thing is always true as stone: someone will need what you do, someone won't, & you won't know the difference. Err on the side of hope. Create if u can.
15.01.2026 23:54
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books are so cool because there are NO FUCKING ADS IN THEM
17.11.2025 16:46
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