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AI;DR is apparently an unfamiliar term to Claude, which is ironic. Fortunately it is a clever cookie and figured that shit out. And shit it was, because if you can't be arsed to write it, i'm not gonna be arsed to read it. FFS. Surely we can do better than this?

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Just popping in here to link to something I blogged (after a 4 year hiatus) How to effectively debug with agents when you no longer read or understand the code A debugging framework that doesn’t rely on human knowledge of code to get to the “root cause” copyconstruct.medium.com/how-to-effec...

copyconstruct.medium.comHow to effectively debug when you no longer understand the code“” is published by Cindy Sridharan.
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tl;dr if you liked using RSS with Reddit, well fuck you. There's a reason RSS *is* a "beloved part of the open web" and that's because it enables people to consume content where they want, not within some bullshit walled garden.

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Not sure if Pangram's plugin is just pointing out the bleedin' obvious (h/t Basil Fawlty), but it's pretty darn clear why scrolling LI is like walking down the pavement dodging dog turds every second step…

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Some great stuff this month, including: - Good analyses of the DuckLabs acquisition by AWS. - Lots of Kafka, as well as not-Kafka: technologies doing similar things but angling to replace it.

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some strong feels as I try to navigate this. 1. i f**king love LLMs for generating code, reviewing blog posts, and doing a million other things that make me more productive. 2. i f**king detest reading LLM-generated material from colleagues. (1/3)

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i am so tired of the imbalance that it creates. it's a variation on Brandolini's law: the energy needed to even read this bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that taken to prompt a clanker to generate it. (2/3)

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is the answer to play them at their own game, and have an LLM parse and respond to the content, in a race to the bottom of a greasy barrel of sloppy AI banality and emptiness? (3/3)

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Up & to the right! Is how the audience for my monthly newsletter "Interesting links in Data & AI" is going :) This month's will be shorter because of holidays (en-us: vacation), but there's still time for YOU to do two things: (1/2)