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:
(more…)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>
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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.
(more…)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
To me, LinkedIn was supposed to be the professional network — a place for thoughtful discussion about work related stuff and genuine connection. Yet, over the years, it feels that the content and tone has shifted for engagement (“what do you think?”, “how do you do it?”), self glorification (“especially after quitting a company and highlighting all the successes” srsly, if it was so cool, why did they quit?) and provocative extremes. Everything for the reach.
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