Valentin Sawadski

I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com

Second order consequences of AI generated code „Headcount stops measuring capacity and starts measuring how much accountability you can afford.“ karimjedda.com/engineering-... #ai #leadership #engineering #management

Good grief, this hits home.

Most governments find the loss of entire world regions to uninhabitable climate scenarios and the untold suffering of humans - and animals - easier to imagine, than the transition away from oil and gas. As Amitav Gosh said, the climate crisis is a crisis of our imagination.

Who would have thought that „we optimize for what is basically SLOC for LLMs“ is not a good KPI for an engineering team

The Germany Economy stands to lose € 112.5bn in the next 4 years due to extreme heat (a direct effect of climate change!) We need to invest in climate change and climate Adaption now before it’s too late! www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/w... (sorry German only) #climatechange

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

Aha! The #GoogleIO developer demo shines some light on it, as they demo how to create a fine-tuned version of Gemma-4. I assume they will use multiple fine tuned models for different use cases internally, potentially even on an "per agent" level?

Wait? That’s it? Nothing on #GoogleBook where they put Gemini right into the OS, or anything for Android besides the ominous „Android Halo“ mention? #googleio

This whole Shopping Demos are a mess. First they introduce new shopping protocols, now they show a demo that does not use them but instead does AI automation for exiting Android apps. Feels like multiple teams competing with each other or a rushed announcement. #googleio

So let me get this straight all we get as non-US people is a bigger search box? Omni, Spark all other new features so far are behind the walled garden of the US border… #googleio

I like how Google envisions and describes the Agent Experience. - Personal - Proactive - Powerful #googleio

Finally MCP support for Gemini! #googleio

Interesting concept of „Generative UI“. Have the product reconfigure itself to meet your individual momentary needs! #googleio

daaaamn london

Valve Corporation has no managers. No hierarchy. No org chart. Engineers pick their own projects. Teams form themselves and cap at 12. Need more than 15? They split. 50? They divide. 150? They open a new office. This is Dunbar's Number applied as company policy. 🧵

I learned that you can dynamically set the iPhone wallpaper via Shortcuts. To play around with it, I made a fun clock that shows the time remaining as a bar chart. While it’s not particularly useful, I was surprised that on May 2nd at noon, already 5% of the month are behind us! 🤯

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Yup. I prefer cameras where my friends of all skin tones look great. 👍🏿👍🏾👍🏽👍🏼👍🏻 A classic but still great: Realtone. Yes, this stuff matters.

Most engineers learn software engineering laws the hard way Your rewrite collapses. You add engineers to a late project and it ships slower. You hit every metric but build nothing anyone uses. Then you find out a 1975 law predicted it. Check it: newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/the-20-sof...

Great write-up from @dbreunig.bsky.social : "Learnings from a No-Code Library: Keeping the Spec Driven Development Triangle in Sync" www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/04/t... specs and tests are *not* enough!

𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗜-𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁? Developers report 10x productivity gains from AI coding agents, yet a Carnegie Mellon study of 806 open-source GitHub repositories found something different. 🧵

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹, 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴? A long time ago, we coded only manually, but then we started to vibe code. Yet, vibe code is something everyone defines differently. 🧵

𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 We keep calling LLMs "AI coding assistants." But writing code and understanding code are not the same thing. Researchers just ran 750,000 debugging experiments across 10 models to determine how well LLMs actually understand code. 🧵

No one ever went to war over solar energy.

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

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Nicht nur für Verkehr, sondern auch für Gas. Deswegen haben wir diese Petition gestartet um dagegen zu protestieren! weact.campact.de/petitions/3-...