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Rick Manelius has proposed a new acronym: AI;DR. It stands for “AI; Didn’t Read”. He says that it actually originated with @seclilc here. Manelius isn’t an AI hater and, if fact, uses it himself. It’s just that he objects to … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around Irreal at all, you know that I have little tolerance for stupidity on the part of the “suits”. My go to example is Boeing where an essentially ignorant group of finance based suits turned the world’s … Continue reading →

Over at Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow has a righteous diatribe about dickovers. If you’re not familiar with the term, dickover was coined by John Gruber to describe those super annoying popups that cover the text you’re trying to read. They’re bad … Continue reading →

Jason Snell has a few words to say about Dan Rayburns’s post on LinkedIn concerning the price increase for Apple TV and why it spells the end of the device. I, too, have a couple of things to say. First, … Continue reading →

The technical press is wetting their pants—or pretending to—about Apple1 raising prices on many of their products due to the AI industry fed rise in RAM prices. It’s outrageous, they claim. Apple should just eat the cost of those increases … Continue reading →

Yusuf Aytas has a great post that explores the difference between a vibe coder and a software engineer. He plays it straight and says, basically, that vibe coding may be fine for a proof of concept or for a one-off … Continue reading →

As many of you know, I have a special contempt for what I call “the new Luddites”: those who find (nonsensical) fault—usually for performative reasons—with technology. The most common current sign of the new Ludditism today is giving up smart … Continue reading →

Our younger colleagues can be forgiven for viewing Microsoft as a benign company. Those of us who have been around for a while remember the old days and we haven’t forgotten or forgiven. Despite their efforts to appear a friendly … Continue reading →

You would think that by now every organization on earth would have heard of Goodhart’s law. The law can be briefly stated as, “When a measure is used as a target, it ceases to be a measure.” We see the … Continue reading →