Paris Buttfield-Addison, a developer and long-time Apple user, recently lost permanent access to his Apple ID. And he didn’t even do anything wrong. The result: 20 years of photos, messages and data? Gone. A true worst case scenario! But let’s have a look, should we learn something from that?
(more…)Month: December 2025
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The Cost of Going All-In on AI
On Mastodon, I just came across “I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.” from Josh Anderson. He spent three months building a product using only AI-generated code. The result? A working product, but also a dangerous realization: He no longer fully understood his own creation. When a small change was needed, he hesitated.
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LLM Update in Production: When Prompts Fail — and What It Means for Your Applications
t3n recently wrote that OpenAI’s GPT 5.1 update might come with a surprise to desktop users: previously reliable prompts no longer behave as expected. While this may be just a minor annoyance in day-to-day chat interactions, think about what that means in production environments.
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The Free Software Foundation deleted its account on X and recommends the Fediverse
I just saw the post on Mastodon that the FSF Europe deleted their account on X (Twitter) and recommends their Fediverse accounts.
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The Software Engineering Challenge Behind Effective RAG
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Mistral 3 Released
Mistral AI has published Mistral 3, the latest version of their open-weight language model. The models are available under the Apache 2.0 license and, according to their benchmarks, outperform DeepSeek’s recent models in several key areas … well, let’s see.
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Reclaiming my Music Decisions
Readers of this blog know that I’ve been hosting my music albums in #Navidrome since this year. And I admit: I really enjoy it. I just read “Musikstreaming – Mein Weg weg von Abos und Algorithmen” and I resonate with a lot that’s been written there.
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