Martin Perez

Imagine. Your house construction works are about to finish. You visit the architect and she tells you: "The house is pretty much done. We understand how it was done but I don't know all details, neither builders do. But we verified it and it will be fine." Welcome to AI-age software engineering.

Twenty-five years ago ten people set out to find whether a company owned by its workers could do serious engineering entirely in the open. We think the answer is in the commit logs. All of it is upstream, where anyone can use it. Here is to the next twenty-five.

On another garden update, this season I made a funny mistake. I actually asked my shopkeeper to pick me some peanut plants which I had seen around. But when he went to the nursery shelves picked something else... This is the lucky outcome: 50 kg of "peanuts" 😅 (not bad for a 2 EUR investment)

September coming and garden still going strong 🤩

In 2002 this article, "Why Software is So Bad" (www.cs.vassar.edu/~cs335/Crisi... by @charlescmann.bsky.social ?) truly resonated with my young self. Now, things like Agentic and loop engineering bring those memories back. Can you imagine car building by non-deterministic robots? Well that...

Sigo a los chicos de BlancoCasa desde hace tiempo. Con lo bonita que es la zona. Vale que no son grandes ciudades y eso. Pero donde encuentras estas casas, con fincas, en zonas habitadas, amuebladas y listas para vivir a estos precios... www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7tr...

On some AI notes. People burning tokens to figure out how to burn less tokens is kind of hilarious.

On another issue of nice problems to have... 🍅🍅🍅

And it has been paying it off 😅

This Spring I've been busiest than ever at the garden!

If you happen to have a couple of hours to spend go and check @pragmaticengineer.com 's interview to @kelseyhightower.com : newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/kubernetes... Very inspiring.

Zwift buying Rouvy feels a lot like OpenAI buying Anthropic. I hope they do not kill it. I really do not fancy the artificial virtual experience at all.

There are no technical or compliance reasons to double the size of symmetric keys in response to the threat of quantum computers. This common misunderstanding of Grover's algorithm risks wasting limited resources that should go towards deploying actually urgent post-quantum algorithms.

El Pantone amarillo se inventó de mi tortilla

Living like Galicians.

The King of Asparagus

First harvest of the year.

I'm not sure if this is silly, scary, or just what... No, it is silly. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/n...

Living like Galicians.

Anthropic complaining about China AI labs stealing their knowledge made my day. Copyright is a bitch when it does touch YOU.

Spring did arrive!

I've been thinking a lot about how AI could have made our startup successful 15 years ago. Answer: No. It could not. Network, contacts, influence, reach, team, human persistence, long sales cycles, ... If anything, AI would have brought us tons of competitors more. AI won't kill MOATs.

Almost October. Plants are already mostly exhausted but still some good weekend crop.

Vibe dropping. What can go wrong...

This chart is just insane.

Someday, in a not so distant future, mobile phones will include a light LLM-powered phone call assistant that will handle marketing calls and make support calls efficiently in the background. For those building. That's a product I would buy. For us, consumers. That's the final revenge.

This is a scary one. Bump your cursor if you haven't done it yet.

They call it vibe coding because YAARDD ( You are absolutely right driven development ) was too long.

Lovely morning here!

Fancy kitchen-sink size lettuce anyone? These grow fantastically well...

TIL Dyson not only makes vacuum cleaners and hair driers. They do also produce strawberries 👌 youtu.be/FA6BCIWPJ30?...

This is insanely irresponsible 🤦‍♂️ www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

Sorry Claude. You can beat me at coding but you will never beat me at this. Not this century.

Goodbye M3 Max. I'm going to miss this one. 15 consecutive years on borrowed laptops. That's something.

This is a great example of how a hobby OSS project escalates to be a full time burden. gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml... Allegedly +$10k to be an @openssf.org member. He has a point about being less "open" and more a "pay-to-play" game if true.

How's everyone's Friday going?

Amongst other things, there's an open source software supply chain story here. This Android library with 174 stars and one maintainer has taken down many banks in India (in 2023), and "80% of the food delivery market" in Brazil (right now).

Ok. This year it got a bit out of control...

A wonderful day for a relaxing coastal ride.

The new @golang.org 1.24.4 is already available in the Bitnami catalog — just 2 hours after the upstream release! ⚡️ This quick release helps ensure important vulnerabilities are addressed without delay. Need FedRAMP compliance with FIPS, STIG? Check www.vmware.com/products/app...

🚀 Apache Spark 4.0 is now available in the Bitnami Catalog! This major release brings a new Connect interface, enhanced Python UDF support, and improved performance for modern data workloads. Do you need FedRAMP compliance with FIPS, STIG? Check vmware.com/products/app...

I am happy to have started gardening again this year. It is not only relaxing but incredibly productive 😋

I've been vibe coding some data processing Python and heck, the amount of crappy code that we will have to manage during the next 5 to 10 years is going to be insane. Now, once these bots are polished and we have them well trained... Well. It's game over. There will be software engs but other type.

There is some awkward satisfaction in correcting your AI coding peer. It feels good because you still can see yourself as smarter, but it's just an optical illusion. You're doing the captcha thing. We all are.

Full party

I think this is an excellent way to start the week. Merging a HUGE pull request that removes #Lombok from our main #Java project 🔥 As my colleague @martin.arume.cloud said: "The world is a happier place with less Lombok"