Wee zoo trip 📸
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Jamie McHale
@jamiemchale
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Running and reading. I post about technology, history, politics, photography. 🧠Freelance consultant and software dev. Co-host of EdinburghJS meetup. 📸
đź”— Agentic Swarms Are an Org-Chart Delusion, JA Westenberg
"The boundaries between “marketer” and “developer” and “analyst” dissolve, because those boundaries were never real boundaries in the work itself. They were boundaries in human capacity.
The people who will thrive aren’t “agent managers.” They’re people who can say what they want and evaluate whether they got it - and whether what they got was either good or shit." https://www.joanwestenberg.com/agentic-swarms-are-an-org-chart-delusion/
Agentic swarms are an org-chart delusion
The "agentic swarm" vision of productivity is comfortingly familiar. Which should be an immediate red flag... You take the existing corporate hierarchy, you replace the bottom layers with a swarm of AI agents, and you keep humans around as supervisors. It's an org chart with robots instead of interns. The
đź”— Tacit Knowledge and the SaaSpocalypse, Chris Walker
"The difference is one of proportion: when AI handles the commodity work, tacit-knowledge-intensive problems go from being 20 percent of someone’s day to being 80 percent of it." https://cpwalker.substack.com/p/tacit-knowledge-and-the-saaspocalypse
Just finished The Running Ground by Nick Thompson, a memoir and reflection on aging, relationships and endurance. Inspirational! đź“š https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234605498
Niteworks at the Quiraing 🎶
Enjoying the new Luli Lee EP “Brave New World” 🎶
Anthropic suggests how AI coding impacts developer learning. Takeaway: use AI to learn as you go; favour inquiry over generation. Exercise your brain! https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
Interesting technique from Vercel on providing context via a compress docs index in Agents.md vs providing a skill to look up the same. https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals
đź”— Why Talking to LLMs Has Improved My Thinking, Philip O’Toole
"the model is not improving my thinking directly. It is improving the interface between my thinking and language. Since reasoning depends heavily on what one can represent explicitly, that improvement can feel like a real increase in clarity." https://philipotoole.com/why-talking-to-llms-has-improved-my-thinking/
Why talking to LLMs has improved my thinking – Vallified
I’ve been surprised by - and enjoy - one aspect of using large language models more than any other. They often put into words things I have long understood, but could not write down clearly. When that happens, it feels less like learning something new and more like recognition. A kind of “ok, yeah" moment.…
đź”— The Human in the Loop, Adventures in Nodeland
"When I ship code, my name is on it. When there’s a security vulnerability […], it’s my responsibility. I can use AI to help me move faster, but I cannot outsource my judgment. I cannot outsource my accountability."
Responsibility is key. Using AI has made me more paranoid about merging code - I don’t want the embarrassment of having yolo’d something into production without ... https://micro.jamiemchale.com/2026/01/22/the-human-in-the-loop/
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🔗 The Human in the Loop, Adventures in Nodeland When I ship code, my name is on it. When there’s a security vulnerability […], it’s my responsibility. I can use AI to help me move faster, but I cannot outsource my judgment. I cannot outsource my accountability. Responsibility is key. Using AI has made me more paranoid about merging code - I don’t want the embarrassment of having yolo’d something into production without having understood what has been written.