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Dear followers and "fellow kids,"

In hopes of landing an interesting and fulfilling gig next, I just wanted to let you know that I'm ready for new assignments. Preferably helping companies with digital transformations that keep people at the centre. My 25 years of experience in the IT industry have taught me one essential thing: efficiency and quality are achieved only when happy people work closely together, within and across teams in the whole enterprise.
#SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #SystemsThinking
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Dawn Ahukanna 1d ago

Christine Lemmer-Webber 1d ago

ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/

There's a comment by one of OpenAI's employees over on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567575

Of course, the irony of "this is being done to be able to keep our endpoints from being abused" isn't being lost over there either https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568172

I continue to say: I am not against AI, but I *am* against the AI industry (and deeply critical of the effectiveness of current tech and its risks vs how it is sold), and a large portion of it is the intentional power grab dynamics and hypocrisy.

Hard to think of a better example of hypocrisy that apparently one of the mitigations is that they require clients to execute proof of work! Anubis, anyone?

ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It.

Every ChatGPT message triggers a Cloudflare Turnstile program that runs silently in your browser. I decrypted 377 of these programs from network traffic and found something that goes beyond standard browser fingerprinting. The program checks 55 properties spanning three layers: your browser (GPU, screen, fonts), the Cloudflare network (your city,

Buchodi's Threat Intel

Dawn Ahukanna 1d ago

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler 1d ago

The bandwagon has a lot of passengers right now, and a lot of talks sound like it. If you are putting together an AI talk for a conference: go beyond the hype. Beyond vibe coding. Ask harder questions. Explore what it means to use AI as part of a disciplined craft, not as a shortcut around it.

That is the talk I want to see more of.

Dawn Ahukanna 1d ago

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler 1d ago

That distinction matters. Because most AI talks I see are about going faster. How to use AI to speed up delivery. How to ship more. How to do more in less time.

Faster to what, exactly? The big ball of mud perhaps?

In my experience, good engineers with AI get faster outcomes. Engineers without discipline get faster output. Those are very different things. And faster output, without the underlying discipline, tends to produce faster rigid architectures too.
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Dawn Ahukanna 2d ago

Cat Hicks 4d ago

Change, Technically just hit over 25,000 downloads 🎉 🎉 🎉

I'm so proud of the level of rigor, research AND fun we've put into these episodes, a joy to make. A lot of work and a joy! Proud of us

@analog_ashley @danilo

Dawn Ahukanna 2d ago

Jan Wildeboer 😷

2d ago

It took less than two years for a lot of good developers that could work with a laptop and a few containers or VMs without internet connection to turn into coding zombies that are addicted to centralised "AI" coding agents and getting the shakes when their connection to those services goes down. #SarcasmButOnlyHalf This is frightening to me. Now imagine what this addiction does to normal people that think that "AI" can actually help them in life.

Dawn Ahukanna 2d ago

Dave🏳️‍🌈3d ago

AI being used to participate in pay-for opinion polling at scale? Shocked I tell you! Shocked! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/28/how-fraudulent-church-data-revealed-ais-threat-to-polling

‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling

Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scale

The Guardian

Dawn Ahukanna 2d ago

“The AI agent can figure out what a researcher is trying to test and produce (fictitious) data that confirms the hypothesis - Sean Westwood” - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/28/how-fraudulent-church-data-revealed-ais-threat-to-polling

#techConsequencesInRealWorld

‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling

Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scale

The Guardian

Dawn Ahukanna 2d ago

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Miguel Afonso Caetano 2d ago

"Whatever the final outcome for Anthropic from its feud with the Department of Defense, the attention it has generated — coupled with the company’s funny Super Bowl ads taking aim at OpenAI and the surging popularity of Claude Code — has made Anthropic more popular with consumers than ever.

An examination of billions of anonymized credit card transactions from about 28 million U.S. consumers, conducted for TechCrunch by Indagari, a consumer transaction analysis company, shows Claude gaining paid subscribers in record numbers.

Now, as with all big-data analysis, caveats exist. While this data is substantive, it doesn’t include every consumer. That means that Indagari can’t calculate Anthropic’s total current or new user numbers. It also doesn’t include Claude’s enterprise business (which is its bread and butter) or its free-tier users (those not paying Anthropic at all). Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we’ve seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million) but Anthropic has not disclosed this data. A spokesperson did tell TechCrunch, however, that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/anthropics-claude-popularity-with-paying-consumers-is-skyrocketing/

Anthropic's Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing | TechCrunch

Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year.

TechCrunch

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Miguel Afonso Caetano 2d ago

"All of that conquering is starting to stretch Claude thin.

Earlier this week, Anthropic adjusted its usage limits for Claude free, Pro, and Max subscribers. While weekly limits don't change, it means users will approach their cap more quickly when they are using Claude during peak hours, which Anthropic defines as between 5 am to 11 am Pacific Time.

"We've landed a lot of efficiency wins to offset this, but ~7% of users will hit session limits they wouldn't have before, particularly for pro tiers," Thariq Shihipar, who works on Claude, wrote on X. "If you run token-intensive background jobs, shifting them to off-peak hours will stretch your session limits further.""

https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-usage-caps-changes-popularity-anthropic-2026-3

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #Anthropic #Claude

Claude's popularity is forcing it to hit the brakes on users

"I know this was frustrating," an Anthropic official wrote in an announcement of the changes. "We're continuing to invest in scaling efficiently.

Business Insider