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."