Barry O'Sullivan

The parts of programming that remain after the AIs get good are the parts I’ve spent ten+ years working to get programmers to care about. This is going to be a wild journey for the industry.

Platinumed Control Resonant. What a gorgeous, exciting piece of art. Exactly what I needed to be reminded that games can be Big without losing their heart.

My job is now partially cleaning up design debt from Claude. AI coding speeds up our existing patterns, so issues with design are emerging far faster, and most devs don't have the skills to deal with it (they don't actively refactor).

Control Resonant is an absolute banger. Amazing combat, movement, visuals and story. The sheer scale of the world too. Remedy are in a league of their own.

Unsolicited Advice is Critique - @trond.hjorteland.com Checkout the full podcast: youtu.be/Xq9NcnVD7v0 #leadership #systemsthinking

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

Refactoring is harder than adding behaviour due to entropy. Refactoring is fighting entropy, while writing code adds it.

good design is especially hard these days because you have to pay attention to avoid all the LLMisms that exist instantly makes your stuff look cheap

One thing I've consistently seen from AI code slingers is anemic data models with zero encapsulation. It makes changes and maintenance a nightmare.

LLMs have made my job as a system designer much harder, because everyone is churning out code and isn't thinking about design at all, it's accelerating spaghetti code. Everyone is inundated with PRs so they're just rubber stamping this shit.

Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

My AI enthusiasm ebbs and flows. Today I’m realizing that some of my perceived productivity increase is an illusion. I merely moved some of the effort from writing code to having to micromanage a coder.

How are more people not freaking out about the weather?

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I've been consuming a lot of Warhammer 40k content lately and it might be fuckin awesome. It's so on the nose and I love it.

Agile Software Development is NOT break big projects into small sprints. Agile Software Development IS build something, then iterate. I have seen so many teams spend extraordinary effort on the ceremony of Scrum, and never once manage or even try to put some early idea in the hands of users.

Just signed up for this. Only person I trust to give a pragmatic course on AI-asisted development.

You know AI is fucked when AWS is advertising their AI offering on terrestrial TV during match ad breaks. They're desperate for customers and have gone the shotgun approach. We all knew crypto had reached peak when it did the same.

The opposite of David Tenant is Goliath Landlord

Reminded of a time I did an experiment at a startup. New feature would take 5 devs 6 months, I came up with a 1 dev 1 month experiment to figure out it's validity. Finished & ran experiment, the result: no change. Feature was scrapped quietly. No discussion. We never ran another experiment.

This was an absolute delight. Perfect length, as I finished it wanting more.

Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. (There’s a lot you can learn from the trades if you’re willing to be humble about it)

My artwork is in the latest Edge magazine, as part of an interview with the lovely @danthat.bsky.social

Thinking about how AI has changed expectations far faster than it has changed actual capabilities for people in engineering management jobs (and probably others)

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

Most organisations are trying to fix the wrong things. 🎉 Organisational Dysfunctions: Open Systems Theory Explains is out today! Written for developers, architects, agile coaches, and executives who have invested in change and wondered why so little of it stuck.

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i dont really post about the political climate but i think mamdani should put medkits, power ups, various collectibles, and items that boost various stats or give you different effects across NYC that switch around every day or so. the city desperately needs roguelike elements

The headline is bait, of course. RDR2 is obviously an incredibly impressive feat of engineering and a game that makes many men cry manly, manly tears. But I found it tedious, emotionally vacant and dialogue-heavy to the point of absurdity.

everyone has that one friend who insists “there used to be another number between four and five” and tries to demonstrate it by laying out four apples and then adding another and you say “yeah, that’s five” and they say “no, it’s—“ and then you hear a weird buzzing

I'm finding it helpful to ask whether a particular use of technology refines or dilutes information. Blowing out a two sentence prompt into a two page press release is dilutive. Everybody can see that there's no value added. I think that's a major part of the objection to "AI slop." 1/?

The "problem" which AI is designed to address is wages and, unfortunately for all concerned, the mechanism by which money is recycled in the economy is also wages.

Watching the video from The Ring on my phone so she comes out of my screen real tiny and I can just put her in a mug

friend at a big tech co just told me that her company's chatbot and their client's chatbot have been caught in a mutual support loop for several days that has generated nearly 20k emails

I think we need to remember when so much of the web was as good and stupid and charming as this. We must force ourselves to know what they took from us.

I love when doctors say "avoid stress" like I can just unsubscribe from economy and become a decorative gargoyle

Except, LLM-gen'd and human-written code are different. One was written by someone with a mental model. Modified by humans with another mental model (correct or not), etc. The other is generated by statistical, stochastic methods with constraints. These are not the same.