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One of the most potentially dangerous failure modes of LLM-based coding assistants …
I really like having Jason Gorman’s blog posts in my RSS reader. Especially when he’s highlighting some critical issues with AI assisted coding. This paragraph for example really made me smile: For example, a common strategy they use when they’re not able to fix a problem they created is to delete failing tests, or remove…
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Agent finops
The start of this article made me laugh: The first time my team shipped an agent into a real SaaS workflow, the product demo looked perfect. The production bill did not. FinOps for agents: Loop limits, tool-call caps and the new unit economics of agentic SaaS I wasn’t laughing out of malicious joy, but as…
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AI amplifies DevOps
DevOps is the backbone of modern software delivery. The latest insights from Developer Tech on Perforce’s AI-driven tools highlight why — again. 70 percent of the organisations report their DevOps maturity materially affects their success with AI. Rather than replacing established delivery practices, proper foundational workflows serve as the prerequisite for scaling these capabilities. Perforce…
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The Illusion of Smart Home Security – or – the remote controlled WebCam in your Home
Smart home devices are sold with the promise of convenience: plug-and-play setup, remote control, automatic updates, seamless integration. But the recent DJI robot vacuum breach raises questions we should all be asking. What happened? Sammy Azdoufal, a software engineer, didn’t even need to “hack” anything. By reverse-engineering DJI’s cloud communication, he discovered that the same…
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Rules don’t always work on AI agents
A recent Mastodon post from @solomonneas highlights an annoying issue: an AI agent pushed to the main branch 12x, despite clear instructions not to. […] My agent pushed to main 12 times despite explicit instructions. Fix: git pre-push hooks on 39 repos. Agent can’t push code to main because git rejects it. No willpower needed.…
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The Misleading Platform Term
In the past couple of years, lot’s of companies are providing platforms to their employees. Be it for Data Analytics, Compute, Self-Service-something. – Which is all great. I’ve even been involved in one myself. The problem just is: What exactly is a “platform”? At some point, I was frustrated enough to say “Whenever a manager…
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How an Identy Check is distributing your Biometric Data
I just came across “I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.” and thought it might be worth sharing It’s a story of someone just wanting the “verified checkmark” on LinkedIn. Quite legit, right? Just that – afterwards – he started to check which companies his biometric data are now shared with.…
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Nolto.Social is gone, but is has shown the Demand!
Nolto.social started as a small experiment as a free alternative to LinkedIn. The author wanted to explore ActivityPub and see what could be built. There was no funding, no team, no roadmap. Just an idea and some time. Within a few weeks, almost a thousand people signed up. Companies created pages. Articles were posted. Events…
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AI Won’t Turn Everyone Into Developers- Because Most People Don’t Want to Be Developers
The AI hype claims that LLMs will make everyone a coder. I say: that’s pretty much BS. Most people don’t want to build software. They want their problems solved, preferably without lifting a finger. Joan Westenberg nails this so well in her recent article: The “everyone will code” myth ignores decades of proof. We’ve had…