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How a User Helped Fixing 4 Bugs with AI (and No Expertise)

I see a lot of AI skepticism in the dev community — and some of it is fair (okay, maybe “a lot”). Vague bug reports, monster commits, untested code … We’ve proably read it all, and maybe even seen it all.

Even Mitchell Hashimoto whose post appeared yesterday in my timeline writes “Slop drives me crazy and it feels like 95+% of bug reports”. But … he continues with an impressive story: A Ghostty user with no Zig or macOS experience took crash logs, fed them through AI, reached out on Discord, explained what was done. And the result:

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13. January 2026

Skipping AI is not going to help you or your career

I just saw a post on Simon Willison’s blog where he linked to “Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype”. And I pretty much agree on what antirez writes there:

Whatever you believe about what the Right Thing should be, you can't control it by refusing what is happening right now. Skipping AI is not going to help you or your career.

Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype – <antirez>

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12. January 2026

AI Won’t Fix Bad Software Teams

What do you do an Saturday when you don’t feel well to go out for some activities? Right! Let’s read about Software Engineering and AI!

Yesterday I read the complete series of the 22 blog posts listet on The AI-Ready Software Developer – Index – Codemanship’s Blog.

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11. January 2026

The Fear of DevOPs

I just read Walking Skeletons, Delivery Pipelines & DevOps Drills and came to the paragraph about “throwing s.th over the wall:

DevOps – the marriage of software development and operations – means that the team writing the solution code also handles these matters. We don’t throw it over the wall to a separate “DevOps” team.

In the past years I’ve been driving the DevOPS culture and work style. And I just had to smile when I read the article because I can so feel it!

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10. January 2026

Spec-first Agentic Development is not Vibe Coding

Not even two weeks ago I wrote about “Reproducable Vibecoding” and that the specification as a permanent context to document all decisions is important.

I just stumbled across the article “Notes on Six Months of AI-Enabled Building” by Isaac Flath. There are a couple of good quotes in there, especially in the chapters “Your Thinking Style Determines Your Success“

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9. January 2026

How Deepfakes and AI-Slop Undermine Democracy

I am still watching the recordings of talks given on the #39C3 Chaos Communications Congress (see the talks here). Katharina Nocun gave a talk titled Doomsday-Porn, Schäferhunde und die „niedliche Abschiebung“ von nebenan where she shows a really disturbing trend: AI-generated content is becoming a cornerstone of authoritarian and far-right communication strategies.

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2. January 2026

Happy New Year!

I want to wish all of you a Happy 2026! I thought about writing a recap of 2025 but … naah :-D There are so many ideas waiting.

I wish you all the best.

1. January 2026

The Malicious (Coding) Agent …

I just watched Agentic ProbLLMs: Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents from Johann Rehberger on the #39c3. He shows quite impressive how the future threat model looks like, the more AI Agents are deployed.

In his talk he demoes a couple of attacks that were applied by using agents. I don’t want to summarize the talk here (you might want to read the heise online article instead), but it is ways beyond “simple prompt injection”!

But my most “aha”-moment was the statement to treat an Agent as a Malicous Internal. Which is probably the worst scenario you want to deal with. Usually you would like to trust your co-workers and not treat them as if they could stab you in the back while smilig at you.

Anyways, I’m pretty sure the technology will evolve into more secure ways. But it will also stay as a new way of attack in the future. I’d recommend checking it out!

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-agentic-probllms-exploiting-ai-computer-use-and-coding-agents

PS: I’d embed it here, but this obviously requires some CSS / WordPressTheme-magic …

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31. December 2025

The 39C3 has ended and lot’s of Talks are waiting

The 39C3: Power Cycles, the 39th Congress of the Chaos Computer Club has finished. I followed the congress via the #39C3 Hashtag on Mastodon which was quite interesting. I’ve never been there myself but at least I got some impressions via the posts.

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30. December 2025

You Don’t Need to be the Boss to Influence

I just read Influence Without Authority: How to Get People to Listen Without Being the Boss from Bri Chapman.

Most people think influence comes from a title. From being the person who approves budgets, signs off on decisions, or sits at the top of an org chart.

But that’s not how it actually works.
Bri Chapman

And I can pretty much second what she writes there! Not just the quote but also the stepts she’s mentioning there. I was often in a same position: not being the boss but making things work.

Og course it doesn’t work always. But I am surprised how often it just worked in the past. I’d recommend reading it! https://www.brichapman.com/p/how-to-build-influence-without-authority

29. December 2025