Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

This law explains why:
- Text editors become IDEs
- Build tools become deployment platforms
- Chat apps become workflow management systems
- Simple utilities become Swiss Army knives

The pattern is feature creep driven by user requests and competitive pressure. The challenge is knowing when to say no to expansion.

We are introducing Derick Rethans as a featured speaker of the CODING & SITE BUILDING track. Join his session “Better Debugging with Xdebug” on 16 October.

Come level up your debugging skills at DrupalCon Vienna!
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@derickr

You don't need #AgenticAI. You need procedures and workflows that automate tasks that can be automated. You need to go through the awkward process of working out what you are doing and how to do it better/automatically. No AI will allow you to wave a magic wand and make all your problems go away. In the long term, it will just create problems and new costs.

https://futurism.com/ai-agents-failing-industry?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/business

You can bypass Google Gemini's PII (private identifiable information) redaction filter and pull identifying information about anyone. Simply telling it to translate or any 2nd action (& many more work better like base64 conversion) lets you pull illegal PII data verbatim unredacted

Here is a European's PII demo

Email is supposed to be redacted to hide the fact that every Europeans PII is in the training data

Google's training data includes all your personal data already

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