11-Dec-2025 Content of Interest
Med Dev
- Avoidable Software Failures Cost Trillions - IEEE Spectrum
(Harry Goldstein)
"The FDA recalls on average 20 medical devices per month due to software issues."
Software
- Deprecate Like You Mean It
(Entropic Thoughts)
"What if we intentionally made deprecated functions return the wrong result … sometimes?" - The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (Cory Doctorow)
"How to be a critic whose criticism inflicts maximum damage on the parts of AI that are doing the most harm." - Tech Debt vs Quality (Mike Fisher)
"The goal isn’t to find balance; it’s to build acceleration that lasts." - Everything New Has Bugs (Mike Fisher)
"The deeper issue isn’t speed itself, it’s the lag time between faster motion and the adaptation of supporting systems." - How good engineers write bad code at big companies (Sean Goedecke)
"I expect to be re-orged at least every year, and often much more frequently."
Web
- After the Bubble
(Tim Bray)
Good read. "The GenAI bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that."