„There’s a moment every engineer knows but rarely talks about. It’s not the one before a deploy, or the one after a pager alert. It’s the moment after you’ve opened your 6th tab of the hour, when your eyes blur, your shoulders instinctively rise towards your ears, and you realise you can’t remember what you were doing just 5 minutes ago. It’s the moment where the work stops being work, and becomes interruption management.“
https://russmiles.substack.com/p/on-the-pain-of-task-switching
„[…] the mind is not the reliable, neutral instrument we tend to assume. Memory reconstructs rather than records. Bias edits what we remember in self-serving directions. Emotion shapes which memories surface and how we weigh what we find. And the modern habit of constant switching quietly erodes our capacity to think carefully at all. Together, these four themes point to the same practical conclusion – a…“ 1/
Joseph Pelrine: „#99 - The Myth of Multitasking“
https://ckarchive.com/b/75u7h8h673d5xf6rgg7rlaw4w63oqunhge25w
Faisal Hoque: "There isn’t an AI bubble—there are three“
https://www.fastcompany.com/91400857/there-isnt-an-ai-bubble-there-are-three-ai-bu
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@ufried’s JAX 2026 slide deck:
„The 7 pitfalls of AI“
“To sum up: There is some level of essential acceleration. However, this perceived ever-increasing speed in IT that exhausts us increasingly is something we created and fuel ourselves. This is what I mean by:
We are our own worst enemies.
We are the ones who make our lives worse by reflexively running faster and faster, in directions that others set.”
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@ufried „We Are Our Own Worst Enemies“
https://www.ufried.com/blog/worst_enemies/
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Russ Miles: „The Theory in the Room“
https://www.softwareenchiridion.com/p/the-theory-in-the-room
„What struck me most is the emphasis on what grows quietly:
Not the visible complexity in the code.
But the erosion of understanding.
The fading of intent.
The slow drift between what we think a system is and what it has become.“
Margaret-Anne Storey about Russ Miles‘ „The Debts That Grow in Silence“
https://www.softwareenchiridion.com/p/the-debts-that-grow-in-silence
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#AlexThuClassics
"Reading and reasoning about unfamiliar code is among the most cognitively demanding activities developers undertake, which is partly why understanding erosion is so consequential. The psychological mechanism behind this is what Shaw and Nave refer to as cognitive surrender: adopting AI outputs with minimal scrutiny, bypassing both intuition and deliberate reasoning [...]. This is importantly different from…“ 1/
Alexander Thurow
