Thanks AI! - Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure, about AI
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Thanks AI!
Thanks AI! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/
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The Register
AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them
exclusive: Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power
Your estimates take longer than expected, even when you account for them taking longer — Parkinson's & Hofstadter's Laws
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Work Expands. Time Vanishes. Here's Why.
Planning Laws: Parkinson & Hofstadter
I let the internet vote on what code gets merged. Here's what happened in Week 1.
https://blog.openchaos.dev/posts/week-1-the-first-merge
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The First Merge
How a repo let the internet decide what gets shipped—and what happened next.
LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
https://tomrenner.com/posts/400-year-confidence-trick/
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LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator. Twenty years later Blaise Pascal produced a machine of an improved design, aiming to help with the large amount of tedious arithmetic required in his role as…
How a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap
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How a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap | QuestDB
A deep dive into an OpenJDK commit that replaced slow /proc file parsing with a single syscall, revealing obscure Linux kernel internals and a 20-year-old optimization opportunity.
Ken Thompson rewrote his code in real-time. A federal court said he co-created MP3. So why has no one heard of James D. Johnston?
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The Other Father of MP3
James D. Johnston spent 26 years at Bell Labs building the technology that became MP3. Then history forgot him.
A good test of engineering team maturity is how well you can absorb junior talent
https://thoughtfuleng.substack.com/p/junior-developers-in-the-age-of-ai
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Junior Developers in the Age of AI
Companies are ditching junior engineers en masse. They'll tell you it's because AI writes better code. They’re right...but also missing the point.
Cursor CEO Built a Browser using AI, but Does It Really Work?
https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/cursor-ceo-browser-made-using-ai
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Cursor CEO Built a Browser using AI, but Does It Really Work?
A browser built by hundreds of AI agents in just one week sounds impressive, but the real question is what works and what breaks?
Responsible disclosure of a Claude Cowork vulnerability that lets hidden prompt injections exfiltrate local files by uploading them to an attacker’s Anthropic account
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files
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Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of known-but-unresolved isolation flaws in Claude's code execution environment.
Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
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IEEE Spectrum
AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?
Cursor Implied Success Without Evidence | Not one of 100 selected commits even built
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From the programming community on Reddit: Cursor Implied Success Without Evidence | Not one of 100 selected commits even built
Posted by xX_Negative_Won_Xx - 498 votes and 132 comments
Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss | Davos 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/21/rollout-ai-slowed-save-society-jp-morgan-jamie-dimon-jensen-huang
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the Guardian
Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss
Jamie Dimon warns of civil unrest but Nvidia’s Jensen Huang argues tech will create rather than destroy jobs
Satya Nadella at Davos: a masterclass in saying everything while promising nothing
https://jpcaparas.medium.com/satya-nadella-at-davos-a-masterclass-in-saying-everything-while-promising-nothing-8495c75c5ba3?sk=a6efaf2b6a15adefcf82403ff62ef8da
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Medium
Satya Nadella at Davos: a masterclass in saying everything while promising nothing
A fact-check of Microsoft’s CEO reveals the gap between boardroom polish and operational reality
Two Catastrophic Failures Caused by "Obvious" Assumptions
https://open.substack.com/pub/alexanderfashakin/p/make-it-make-sense-nobody-clicked-the-wrong-button?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Substack
Make It Make Sense (1) - How a Spacecraft and a Bank Lost $700 Million Without Anyone Making a Mistake
The Cost of Assumptions
Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
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Lalit Maganti
Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that project will go anywhere, they’re solving the wrong problem.”…
Essay: Performance Reviews in Big Tech: Why “Fair” Systems Still Fail
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Medium
Why Big Tech Performance Reviews Aren’t Meritocratic
How to gaslight employees at scale
Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/01/22/announcing-winapp-the-windows-app-development-cli/
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Windows Developer Blog
Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI
We are excited to announce the public preview of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp), a new open-source c