Baldur Bjarnason

@bosconet That's basically what I've been hearing.

@ApostateEnglishman No I missed that, but it doesn't surprise me that he got that response.

@bituur_esztreym I think I came across that same article recently but don't have at hand either.

@chriskrycho It's interesting that the human factors paper that originated the automation paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation) as well as much of the research that followed didn't focus on the idea of higher performance than baseline. The paradox kicks in as soon as the output is good enough to switch the human participant out of "participation" mode and into "monitoring" which is also more exhausting as it requires heightened vigilance.

@quinn Sooo passé

@401matthall Yeah, same. In a way that's doing us a favour. Less work to keep up with things that way. 😁

@pizzaclick 👍

@petrikas Yeah. Learning from other people’s experience has historically been key to survival.

@bms Right!

(It's the delta that worries me in the code I see—the change in quality, that is. Engineers with a quarter century of experience churning out code by the bucketful that's quite a bit worse than what they used to write. So either they aren't reviewing their own code like they used to or their skills have degraded.)

"AI" generated code is everywhere. It's impossible to avoid. We can see it. The only thing using the tools would accomplish is expose us to a bunch of cognitive hazards that come with chatbot bullshit.

Every time I see a vibe coder say something along the lines of "if you haven't used these tools over the past five minutes, you don't know what they're capable of, because everything's different now!" I get a little bit perplexed.

You do know that we can see the output without using it ourselves, right? Some of us are still reviewing pull requests and reading through code repositories, y’know?

"Software developers are not okay"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/

The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech.

Direct link to the essay: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/#software-developers-are-not-doing-well

This is now happening multiple times a day on iOS and iPadOS. Controls disappearing randomly (it’s not just in the wrong colour, there is nothing there to respond to your touch). Happens most often in Safari but been seeing it elsewhere as well

“Bad Vibes Coding – Spectre Collie”

https://spectrecollie.com/2026/09/05/bad-vibes-coding/

> My take on generative AI has pretty rapidly gone from a tentative, “it sucks and I hate it, but after the bubble pops, there might be a few very specific use cases for it, like with programming,” to a vehemently zero-tolerance stance. It’s all garbage, burn it down.