Bell Labs: Where dreams of grandeur meet the reality of uninspired offspring 🤣. Apparently, the peak of #innovation was overshadowed by Dad's telescope show-and-tell in third grade 🎉. Who knew the most groundbreaking invention was the writer's own ego? 🙃🔭
https://acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs/ #BellLabs #Humor #GroundbreakingInvention #Ego #3rdGradeScience #HackerNews #ngated

Plan9: The squeal to Unix

https://makertube.net/w/bf1B4dT1MSdzdXVgLy88CP

@CptSuperlative @pluralistic this is the #knowledge shared in stories and #apprenticeships. This is stuff machines can’t capture. This kind of #somatic #tacitknowledge is stored in #mentorships and other human relationships. This kind of sharing made the old #belllabs and makes #amateurradio fun and worthwhile despite the #whitesupremacist milieu.

.#BellLabs won 9 Nobel Prizes, 4 Turing Prizes, 33,000 patents & invented the transistor, laser, solar panels & telecomms satellites. So what did they know that you don’t? We review @jongertner’s #TheIdeaFactory: http://the-agency-review.com/bell-labs/ #innovation #creativity #business

Some views from a visit to #Pittsburgh. Great time of year to run in the #city #parks, and on the trails, #bridges, or #university campuses. The #graffiti on #bridges was funny, albeit sometimes dark. Also, I thought #Lumen was in #BellLabs in New Jersey, but I guess they have a campus in #theBurgh.

You know the 90-90 rule, this old humorous aphorism saying "Writing the first 90% of the code takes 90% of the time, writing the remaining 10% of the code, takes the other 90% of the time". This came from #BellLabs more than 40 years ago, and I think is something people coding with #LLMs don't quite get.
#LLM #Claude #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI