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Vibe coding: the antidote

LLMs have shown themselves to be a terrible way to write programs. But the problem they address is real, and we aren’t solving it any other…

Oct 16

Vibe coding: the antidote

Oct 16

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It’s all going to be fine!

Seven reasons why you don’t need to worry about your website’s security.

Sep 29

It’s all going to be fine!

Sep 29

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The un-hackable database

Make sure your persistent data stays complete, correct, and confidential, no matter what.

Sep 12

The un-hackable database

Sep 12

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How not to get hacked

It seems almost every day brings news of another big hack, wrecking companies and compromising customers. How do systems administrators…

Aug 21

How not to get hacked

Aug 21

LLM + TDD = NBG

What happens when you ask an LLM to program using TDD? It doesn’t listen. It behaves no better than a spoiled, arroant child.

Aug 4

LLM + TDD = NBG

Aug 4

Yes, failure is an option

It’s simple: if we want to write software that doesn’t go wrong, we have to stop writing software that’s designed to go wrong.

Jun 24

Yes, failure is an option

Jun 24

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AI: winter is coming!

Modern AI – LLMs and GANs – represent an unprecedented leap in hype. This isn’t going to end well.

May 5

A robotic Jon Snow stands in front of Winterfell Castle in the snow.

May 5

Error handling: We’re doing it all wrong

How decades of exception-throwing have been making our programs less stable, and what we should be doing instead

Apr 11

Craftsman trying to repair a wristwatch by damaging it even more

Apr 11

Software Wormholes

How the world’s most destructive anti-pattern spreads despite all our efforts to stop it

Mar 21

Software Wormholes

Mar 21

Why software breaks

Why software is so hard to write, and what we can do about it.

Mar 10

Why software breaks

Mar 10

Jules May

Jules May

he/him

A software developer and consultant specialising in reliability, compilers, and mathematical software. https://julesmay.co.uk

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