Hi Everyone!

I’m excited to share that I just had a paper accepted in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) co-authored with @mastorey , where we present a grounded theory, rooted in cognitive science, of the developer’s cognitive experience of troubleshooting and overcoming confusion.

Our theory 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹—𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.

https://artystarr.com/blog/giving-developers-words

So, serious questions. I keep seeing people in tech talk as if they don’t see the difference between indexing media to aid in the discovery of said media and indexing it all to replace it and deprive the creators of revenue.

Is it really not obvious to people in tech why people in the arts and creative industries might be fine with the former but extraordinarily furious about the latter? Or that the legal framework surrounding the two might actually be different?

"We didn’t need to ask for budget. We didn’t need management to engage or give permission. We didn’t ask anybody outside of the dev teams to change anything. We just f***ing did it – this one little change – and the entire organisation adapted around it."

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/the-mouse-that-roared/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/116317069604398190

The future of AI is here! Today it’s copilot ads in copilot PR descriptions, tomorrow it’s endorsements of products done in your name.

It’s beautiful. LLMers willingly outsourced their own voice to these large companies, and like every tech product, step 2 is injecting ads. Have fun lol