🪢 ‘Bonding’ with Kafka (Part 1) #Kafbelle
Dev & Data Engineering
by @smokeyjmirror.bsky.social
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Harvard researchers studied 718 companies and found AI coding agents increased lines of code by 30%, but no major increase in completed tasks or projects. Meanwhile, review time rose 49%. Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.
Playing around with the idea of depending on the PDS you're logged into, it shows you a different social app to post to when sharing
spoken less than 10 months ago was he right?
This is new. In eprint.iacr.org/2025/794 ("[3]" below) we reported the vulnerability that WhatsApp leaves group management to the server, cf. arstechnica.com/security/202... Now an "Let's build an AI backdoor" paper is like: "great stuff!"
Inside me there's 2 bus seats
I've tried migrating my blog to a CMS multiple times, but always end up going back to Markdown files. Then it occurred to me that my PDS is the perfect place to store this stuff. I don't need to host anything, but I can if I want to. So, I'm working on "atcms" in my spare time. #atproto
Looking forward to kicking off the LSE's brand-new Political Methodology seminar! I will present new work with @tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social and Andrey Tkachenko on detecting batch-generated responses in survey data delivered by third-party vendors. Get in touch for the Zoom link or the draft.
R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton 😢 Genius programmer, inventor of Software Engineering as a discipline. She invented a software interrupt priority management that saved the day for the Apollo mission. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...