Dominic Hopton

@grork
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Person, collection of elements producing something less than the sum of its parts. (Opinions are mine, and do not represent those of my employer)

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Websitehttps://codevoid.net
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He reminds me when you come across a software engineer who isn’t over confident, and can just bang out great code all the time. Sometimes pushes it a bit close to the sun, and people don’t know how to push back properly.
Me, 2021, on Max Verstappen: Pfft. Crashstappen is a valid name.
Me, 2022-2024, on Max: He’s good, but… he knows people are scared
Me, 2025, on Max: A Goat. He’s on another level
Me, 2026, on Max: can he be in every racing series? dudes got skills.
Why don’t the LLM harnesses that support MCP slap jq in front of the MCP response? Some of the MCPs are *very* verbose (looking at you Jira), and allowing the model to filter the response before it enters the context window would be very useful

Some Ungrads are looking into the impact of social media education on the Gut Biome & Colorectal cancer. Why don’t your take a look, and see if you want to take their survey!

More info: https://www.instagram.com/thedigestiondivas/
Survey Link: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/bathreg/gut-microbiome-and-colorectal-cancer

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Tempted to write a post that software development lost the plot a long time ago, and that the recent LLM developments are merely the icing on that cake. Software these days is not the painstaking work by people like @bagder or @hyc or @vitaut who write the best code they possibly can. Over the past decade, "the software world" has been developing in a very different way than that.
We are now onto the stage where just because you can build something doesn't mean you should ship it 🤞
Can someone explain the finance math here? Borrowing money to buy stocks. Which is effectively people giving you money to give other people money and the people who will be selling the stocks to you are probably the same people buying the debt? Who you then pay again?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/salesforce-plans-to-raise-up-to-25-billion-to-fund-buybacks
Someone should robot-port core internet infra (dns, ip stacks, load balancers, ssl terminators etc) from the current ‘industry standard’ implementations into… rust? Zig? Idk, lang is the point… *and then deploy it to the internet*. How does it do? Time to First breach?
✍️ Coding Agents are 3D Printers for software
I blogged more idle thoughts: https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2026/03/07/llm-coding-agents-are-3d-printers.html
Coding Agents are 3D Printers for software

LLM coding tools are powerful, transformative, and will absolutely generate you a pile of plastic goo if you let them.

Thoughts, Ruminations, & Pontifications
“Jevon’s” paradox for software only says we’ll get more software. It doesn’t say we’ll get more “Software Developers”.