David

Meine Teamlead hat mir eben einen Pull Request mit 500 AI-generierten files über den Zaun geworfen. What. The. Actual. Fuck.

Just read @pluralistic@mamot.fr’s blog post about government efficiency and the diff between the way DOGE did it last year and Mamdani tackels it now in NYC:
The idiology that a government should be run like a business is inherently (and empirically) wrong. Hiring private firms just made everything worse while costing more.

The same can be observed here in Germany. The millions of Euros that our government poured into (partially failed) IT projects is baffling.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/mamdani-thought/#public-excellence

I spoke to a fellow software engineer yesterday. He recently started a new job and said, they are now doing most of the work with #AI, more or less just orchestrating #agents. In the last couple of days, they spent 1500€ on tokens.
That might sound much, but for the company probably a better deal when it comes to code per person-hour.

Yes, I find AI helpful as well, it just speeds up some parts of my job, but this yesterday made me think in 2 ways. (1/4)

Die Lage der Nation ( @lagedernation@chaos.social) hat letztens einen vor-Ort Bericht über einen dt. Mittelständler veröffentlicht, der an irrsinnigen (Bau-)Vorschriften verzweifelt.
Ihr größeres Rational dahinter ist, zu zeigen wie Leute das Vertrauen in das System verlieren, wenn Paragrafenreiter nur auf ihre Vorgaben pochen, anstatt Probleme realer Menschen zu lösen.

https://lagedernation.org/ldn465 (1/3)

Ich glaube, es ist generell ganz gesund, laufende Kosten so niedrig wie möglich zu halten. Aber gerade wenn wir über subscription-modelle reden, kann ich Musik am allerwenigsten verstehen. Nehmen wir mal Spotify: 12,99€/m. Das sind in 5 Jahren fast 780€. Und wenn du dann cancellst, ist das weg. Anstatt dass du dir für 780€ deine Musik tatsächlich gekauft hättest. Du zwingst dich quasi selbst, dabei zu bleiben.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKn-zJMIwY&feature=youtu.be (1/2)

@IT_Duke@muenster.im haha, also eher friert die Hölle zu als dass Merz bei Merkel zu irgendeinem Thema anruft.

I wrote a piece again!
In #software #engineering, selling the business and other stakeholders the reduction of #techdebt is sometimes hard, due to two reasons: it’s Invisible - anyone not looking at the code base has no idea it’s there (and how much of it is there) - and it’s Abstract - its concept & ramifications are hard to grasp. On the outside it looks all fine.

So, let’s introduce the Invisible Abstract and see where else we encounter it.

https://blog.davidkrammer.de/2026/01/17/the-curse-of-the-invisible-abstract/

Welcome to late-stage capitalism

„the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives“

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/climate/trump-epa-air-pollution.html

What an incredible post by @pluralistic@mamot.fr about the diff between “Writing Code”, “Software Engineering” and how AI fits (not) into this. So many sentences I could quote here. I’m in awe.

“Writing code that works, without consideration of how it will fail, is a recipe for catastrophe. […] It is shoveling asbestos into the walls of our technological society.”

“if you are looking for a job that AI will definitely create […] I have a suggestion: digital asbestos removal”

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

Late to check the changes out, but looks like there were no further steps towards #AoT compilation in the latest #efcore release with #dotnet 10. That‘s one of the big missing steps for us to go full AoT.
Have been doing some tests with trimmed assemblies and chiseled Ubuntu containers privately, but AoT would be even greater.

Gerade ein krass gutes Buch fertig gelesen: The Tainted Cup von Robert Jackson Bennett. Quasi so ein fantasy Sherlock Holmes Murder Mystery. Große Empfehlung!