Software

• An Ode to Showing Up (Brad Stulberg) "It doesn’t matter the pursuit; you’ve got to show up."
• If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? (Jeff Atwood)
• Who Is Open Source About? (Glyph Lefkowitz) "Open source comprises a complex social web of ongoing relationships, not a simple one-way “gift” of value from maintainer to user."
• You should all be asking way more questions (Sean Goedecke) "you should all be trying harder to actually understand what you’re hearing"
• TBM 441: AI, the Loss of Positive Friction, and What to Do About It (John Cutler) "And how can you embrace new technologies without losing the good things?"
• The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortages (Ivan Klaric) "It seems like this issue has spread everywhere as a corollary of widespread AI adoption."
• MongoDB: One write, two logs (Frane Jelavic) "It gives me a way to examine a recommendation instead of accepting it because the source sounds confident, and we all know AI can sound like that."
• Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror (Netflix Technology Blog) "Introducing composable, module system native and agent friendly command line tools for modern Java development"
• Expected Goals (Mike Fisher) "Nobody counts the losers, and the losers are the denominator."
• Analyzing Jev, a new AI model (Senko Rašić) "It's not an LLM. It doesn't generate text or pictures, but could be very useful for a number of use cases."
• Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (Simon Willison) "Think of Jev as a frontier-intelligence function call: unstructured state in, typed probabilistic decisions out."