Fragments: Dodgy metrics for AI usage, history of tech removing jobs, benchmarking closed and open models, LLMs multiply existing cruft, AI slop driving us crazy, I am the Global Interpreter Lock for agents
martinfowler.com/fragments/20...
Thank you for rescuing me! Trip home was smooth, except for me going the wrong direction on the tube. ("why do I seem to be passing all these stations I didn't pass on the way here? uh oh ...")
Shall we have some accountability, and start calling them Farage-queues?
#borders
Oh man, I was just congratulating myself on the achievement unlocked of 🇬🇧 →🇫🇷→🇬🇧 in one day, and you've totally beaten that.
I've built a thing - thanks @quarkus.io, @kevindubois.com, @hollycummins.com and @hanno.codes!
At J-Spring, @felienne.bsky.social quoting Martin Luther King, quoting Thoreau, who apparently anticipated much of modern technology: "Improved means to an unimproved end."
Maybe it's kind of comforting that complaints from 200 years ago are still relevant in these uncertain times?
I was playing around with #ClaudeCode and thought I'd see how it handles creating a new #SpringBoot project vs a @quarkus.io project.
Prompt: I'd like to create a new <quarkus|spring boot> project
Spring: $1.83 - 7m21s
Quarkus: $0.4364 - 2m39s
Look at the tokens counts!
Announcing Endive, a WebAssembly runtime built natively for the JVM, now a Bytecode Alliance project. Zero native dependencies. One JAR, every OS.
Check it out:
endive.run
bytecodealliance.org/articles/end...
📣 I've created a new #quarkiverse extension - quarkus-flags, a lightweight and extensible feature flags/toggles/switches #quarkus extension: github.com/quarkiverse/... Feedback, feature requests and contributions are welcome🙏.
