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Brutal satire on the whole vibe-porting license washing thing (previously):

Finally, liberation from open source license obligations.

Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems..

I admit it took me a moment to confirm that this was a joke. Just too on-the-nose.

Via Hacker News

Tags: open-source, ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-ethics

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It Epic piece on AI-assisted development by Clive Thompson for the New York Times Magazine, who spoke to more than 70 software developers from companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, plus other individu...

Many of us wonder if the MacBook Neo is 'the one'.

Because I have a faster desktop (currently a M4 Max Mac Studio), I've always used a lower-end Mac laptop, like the iBook or MacBook Air, for travel. I've used MacBook Pros in the past, but I like the portability of smaller, cheaper models.

In fact, my favorite Mac laptop ever was the 11" Air.

Here's what I think is happening: AI-assisted coding is exposing a divide among developers that was always there but maybe less visible. Before AI, both camps were doing the same thing every day. Writing code by hand. Using the same editors, the same languages, the same pul...

thinking and bluffing

TL;DR: As of June 2026, ~50% of daily top stories are about AI or generated by AI.

TL;DR: As of June 2026, ~50% of daily top stories are about AI or generated by AI.

Recently my partner's trusty old 5K iMac died after 8.5 years of service (Radeon gpu is fried). At first I thought it was finally time to get one of those cool little M4 Mac Minis, but then decided to conduct an experiment. I gave up my Mac Studio M2 Max (64 Gb unified memor...

Out of all the things to love and hate with AI, this is what I miss.

Sorting algorithms Today in animated explanations built using Claude: I've always been a fan of animated demonstrations of sorting algorithms so I decided to spin some up on my phone using Claude Artifacts, then added Python's timsort algorithm, then a feature to run them al...

I was reading the METR article on how LLM code passes test much more often than it is of mergeable quality. They look at the performance of LLMs doing programming when the success criterion is “passes all tests” and compare it to when the success criterion is “would get approved by the maintainer”. Unsurprisingly, LLM performance is much worse under the more stringent success criterion. Their 50 % success horizon moves from 50 minutes down to 8 minutes.

As part of this they have included figures such as this one:

(Continue reading the full article on the web.)

AI tools push us to higher abstraction. I'm not sure I like what that costs us.

Today's links AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit: In case there was ever any doubt. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Eggflation x excuseflation; Haunted Mansion stretch portraits; "Lost Souls"; Time Magazine x the first World...

A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker's largest hub outside of the United States, said the company sent home more than 5,000 workers there today. Meanwhile, a voicemail message at Stryker's main U.S. headquarters says the company is currently experiencing a building emergency.

It is hard for less experienced developers to appreciate how rarely architecting for future requirements / applications turns out net-positive.

— John Carmack, a tweet in June 2021

Tags: john-carmack, software-engineering, yagni

Microsoft Corp. today pushed security updates to fix at least 77 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. There are no pressing "zero-day" flaws this month (compared to February's five zero-day treat), but as usual some patches may deserve more rapid attention from organizations using Windows. Here are a few highlights from this month's Patch Tuesday.

Agentic Engineering Patterns > Many developers worry that outsourcing their code to AI tools will result in a drop in quality, producing bad code that's churned out fast enough that decision makers are willing to overlook its flaws. If adopting coding agents demonstra...

Today's links Ad-tech is fascist tech: Surveillance advertising is just surveillance. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Washpo v Bernie; Activists v Saif Gadaffi's London mansion; Spacefaring v contract language; Tuna-can tiffin pail; France v encryp...

Since starting HIBP a dozen and a bit years ago, I've loaded an average of one breach every 4.7 days. That's 959 of them to date, but last week it was five in only two days. That's a few weeks' worth of