Chief of Yelling at Agents @Dynatrace. Data scientist turned software engineer.

Wien, Österreich
Joined August 2013
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things would be really crazy if deepseek was an american company
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honestly, most code before ai was also slop
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how it feels to get better at AI coding
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To repeat: reconsider everything you thought about these models 4-6 months ago. How much to review, what mistakes they make, how you write prompts, how much troubke they'll have understanding or changing code.
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Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages. But we won't see non-devs push production code for a long time; possibly forever, if you ask me. Software still needs to be built in robust ways, and it's our profession to do this well, and use the new tools we have, which create new and interesting (+tough!) challenges
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I am still convinced there will be more software engineers in 5 years than there are today. And none of them will read or write code.
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This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance. 2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely. According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits. The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024. Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025. And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well. What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)? 3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself. It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one. 4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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This is me I ended up leaving OpenAI, not because there's anything wrong with OAI (I actually think they're underrated as a biz), but because to me, building commercial software doesn't feel fun anymore Because agents write ~all the code: - There’s less human to human collaboration, so it’s a lonelier experience - You’re constantly context switching and not going as deep into the code, which means there’s ~zero flow state - Most of the job becomes code review and trying to reduce complexity, which is very mentally draining Again just my experience, and none of this specific to OAI. There are many people who seem to be enjoying building software in this era! But I've always wanted to try making films, and now seems as good a time as any
obviously self-selecting by virtue of being my friends, but i keep hearing about more and more engineer friends leaving commercial software to make art
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every senior engineer eventually discovers that half of software architecture is just inventing increasingly elaborate ways to form a queue.
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Early employees have the true opportunity costs in our industry today. 1) Startup pays in [low-mid salary] plus [fairydust] Faang/mango/etc pays in [mid-high salary] plus [sellable stock] 2) The employee has the stresslevel of a founder but the upside of a employee. 3) the founder builds network and brand, the early employee works their ass of in the garage. 4) The company crashes the founder gets a strong lead job in another company. The employee has a resume entry of a company nobody knows in the prime of their career. 5) The founder gets earlier secondaries and in a shitty exit some compensation. Employee stock options are the first to be cancelled in case of trouble.
Please don't dunk on employees. Especially early ones. I can name many cases where they're more responsible for the success of the company than the founders themselves. And today, I wouldn't be surprised if they actually take on more risk than founders do.
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such bollocks. bro throws out some half baked idea that we're all writing code that doesn't matter and we can just yolo our way with a code fountain and abandon our responsibilities. sometimes i do wonder what the hell people actually write code for. bottom line is 99% of those of us who actually ship products are supporting profitable businesses who are heavily reliant on quality predictable and maintainble outcomes. sure, if you're sat in your bathrobe producing the foundations for your next book, or writing mickey mouse code to put in your next paper, or if you're a data usher in a close-to-zero users SaaS where the only effect of errors or downtime is "oh my users can't produce pretty pictures" then none of the code you're writing matters anyway. the fact remains that lying at the foundations of every worthwhile computer system is a mental model of its intended operation, including a deep enough understanding to support the ongoing improvement and maintenance to ensure a solid foundation upon which a profitable business sits. i fear that we are going to learn some very hard lessons if the academics and toy-builders get enough air to influence the direction of our industry.
So many snarky comments here from people who are supposedly writing code so complex than modern models can’t write correctly. I’m not sure why is that a flex. Do you understand you are still typing gibberish like a caveman while the rest of us are making money by talking to a magic box that’s helping us do our jobs?
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Mandatory reading. gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
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Why is it everyone with an absurdly futuristic AI take is someone who - as best I can tell - doesn’t work on (and often never has) real software that has real users and real requirements? More so, why do you trust them?
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100% of dev is going to be done in sandboxes in the cloud, controlled by kanban boards. Trust me, I love my local machine and gorgeous mac apps, but all of it is just a terrible form factor for running a team of agents effectively.
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Next step: GitHub Issue integration.
New in kipppunkt/build v0.3.0: - Orchestrator now uses default port 2309 making it easier to allowlist it in sandboxed agent environments. - Introduce an optional dependsOn field for task dependency resolution. - Simplify git identity setup.
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your financials flow, find out how
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If you are a software engineer "experiencing some degree of mental health crisis", now hear this, because I've been coding for 50 years since the days of punched cards and I have a salutary kick in your ass to deliver. Get over yourself. Every previous "programming is obsolete" panic has been a bust, and this one's going to be too. The fundamental problem of mismatch between the intentions in human minds and the specifications that a computer can interpret hasn't gone away just because now you can do a lot of your programming in natural language to an LLM. Systems are still complicated. This shit is still difficult. The need for people who specialize in bridging that gap isn't going to go away. As usual, the answer is: upskill yourself and adapt. If a crusty old fart like me can do it, you can too.
I don't know why this week became the tipping point, but nearly every software engineer I've talked to is experiencing some degree of mental health crisis.
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Your MCP server should probably be a skill and a CLI
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Ursula von der Leyen just *officially* announced at Davos: The 28th regime will be called EU–INC! WE WON.
TOTAL EU–INC VICTORYYYYYYY!!! WE MEMED THIS INTO REALITY ALL OF YOU MADE THIS POSSIBLE @euinc_petition
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