Every week there’s a new story on how an AI agent has deleted stuff it shouldn’t have: local files, cloud documents, backups etc. It feels like DOS all over again. But you can run coding agents in a sandbox. Read this for techniques
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Could tables be a universal UI and application engine? In this video, Alex introduces a small prototype of a table-based app
Tables as Universal Apps? – A Toy Read More »
A programmer recently asked me how he could switch to a cybersecurity role. The answer might surprise you.
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InfoQ has published the latest AI, ML and Data Engineering Report for 2025, and Alex reacts to the parts that affect software development.
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In software architecture and design, your best bet is to do the simplest thing that could possibly work to solve the problem you know now rather than reach the ideal state of the system. Yet, this is not the default way of designing software. So how can we do better? Let’s see, with the help
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LLMs have many ethical implications, and we decided to tackle them head on in this video, in the context of using AI assistants to generate code and other software development artifacts. The brief:The top issues for using LLMs for software development are: copying the whole internet to build the models, possible copyright infringement in generated
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A common argument against using AI coding assistants is that typing is not the bottleneck and therefore they are not useful. But does this argument stand? Let’s dive in.
Coding Assistants and Typing is Not The Bottleneck Read More »
A recent LinkedIn post by Simon Wardley raises an interesting point: what if we would build microtools fit for our environments using LLMs? Let’s examine this idea. Links:
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Two-thirds of enterprise leaders won’t hire you without AI skills. That’s not clickbait – that’s from a recent ThoughtWorks article. And if you’re still calling AI coding assistants ‘too risky,’ you might already be in the unacceptable column at companies like Zapier. I was skeptical and had mixed feelings about LLMs. But now I believe
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A report published by Thought Works in February 2025 looked at the impact of coding assistants on development speed. They found out that the delivery speed improvement is between 2% and 15%. But the interesting things are qualitative: how did they measure? How can you measure by yourself? And where were the assistants most useful?
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