Grady Booch

Thoughts and prayers. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

wsj.com

I have read many well researched, well reasoned, and well argued papers regarding the nature of software engineering. This is not one of them. arxiv.org/html/2606.05...

The End of Software Engineering:How AI Agents Are Fundamentally Restructuring the Software Paradigm arxiv.org

I have read many well researched, well reasoned, and well argued papers regarding the nature of software engineering. This is not one of them. arxiv.org/html/2606.0560…

arxiv.org

I say this with all due respect but simultaneously with a rage that can unmake stars, a software-intensive system that “exhibits all the cognitive capabilities that the brain has” is not “a few short years away”. x.com/demishassabi...

Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) on X x.com

OpenAI plans to rename "data center" to "computing campus". DevOps staff will henceforth be called "Resident Advisors". slashdot.org/story/26/11/...

OpenAI Might Rebrand Its Data Centers As slashdot.org

I do not fear the rise of artificial intelligence. But I do fear the rise of a small set of billionaires and companies who seek to build such things to increase their power and their wealth, all without transparency or accountability.

Why do I host all my git repos locally? Because I don’t want an AI scraping my work.

Given the wobbly nature of AI company stocks, both public and pre-IPO, I’m considering moving all my retirement investments to NFTs. I’m told that it’s a buyers market for Bored Apes. Thoughts?

It’s artificial intelligence. In the history of computing, this puerile attempt to rename it because of the simpleminded whims of an incompetent and corrupt narcissist will be seen as a failure of leadership, an abandonment of intellectual integrity, and an embarrassment for any who join with him.

AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it. -- beultra_warrior

In the fullness of time, LLMs will eventually become commodities and their price will be a race to the bottom.

The term "artificial intelligence" was coined before the term "software" first appeared in print.

It is simultaneously strange and humbling to realize that the term “artificial intelligence” was coined almost a decade before the term “software engineering”.

Contemporary artificial intelligence is to cognition as artificial sweeteners are to good nutrition: full of misleading hype, distracting, and when misunderstood and misused, dangerous to one's well-being.

In the market of agentic mania ,apathy and hubris appear to be the primary competition for most anything involving solid engineering. Apathy: we don't need no stinkin' rigor, because we can iterate so quickly. Hubris: give me a swam of agents and enough tokens to stand on and I can move the world.