Software and Other Shenanigans

I’m hardly the first person to posit that the “AI” industry is in a bubble and due for a crash.

As little as I like to admit it, LLMs are taking over software development (event though it doesn’t seem to be going well).

I had to go through an “AI” course recently for work, which included a couple of homework assignments.

Over the course of learning Go, I’ve come to like some aspects of the language. 1 of those is the defer statement.

Recently, ClickUp joined the (very large) club of companies laying off tons of people and trying to say that it’s “bEcAuSe Of Ai.”

That title is a bit dramatic.

The movie Kingdom of Heaven has 1 of the best knighting scenes in cinema – punctuating the knight’s oath with a hard slap, because “…that’s so you’ll remember it.”

I didn’t spend as much time in 2025 working on my gift registry, so all I really have is a login flow and profile management.

Have you ever been asked to help with something, agree to do it, only to find out your job is to just stand there and hold a flashlight while someone else does all the work?

Yes, I know I missed the peak on renaming software terms, like changing the default trunk branch name from “master” to “main,” or the trend of renaming “whitelist” and “blacklist” to “allowlist” and “blocklist,” but I’m also not trying to change how I talk