Do Not Start An Expert's Funeral Without Them
When AI replaces part of a job, how can someone outside the field declare the entire expert unnecessary? On obituaries written without the living, and the respect they lack.
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Is ‘It Is OSS, So Just Participate’ Really A Valid Argument?
Is participation in open source the price of admission for criticism? On the bias between builders and users, contribution and the right to speak.
In the Age of AI, Rethink Yesterday's Logic
AI has rewritten the cost structure behind engineering. It is time to rethink technology choices, debt, specifications, tests, OSS, hiring, and trust.
Surprise Reincarnation
We are gradually losing the ability to be surprised.
For-Profit Companies Should Pay the People Who Build OSS
Companies that make money with OSS should not only sponsor events, but also pay authors, maintainers, and core contributors in a distributed way.
Young People, Make the Internet Messy
Do not lie, apologize when wrong, and still have claims, fight, and sharpen them.
I Hate the Basically It's Balance Guy
On neutrality as a performance, and the honesty of saying you do not yet have a position.
Keep the Discussion as a Graph
Information is essentially graph-shaped, and folding it into a tree is wrong.
Folding Hands Before the Prompt: AI, Software, and a Return to Prayer
Software engineering loved reproducibility. Probabilistic AI may pull it, just a little, back toward prayer.
Instability / Propulsion
Embrace your own instability.
Activist as an Information Compiler
A more generalized form of accessibility.