Liam O’Sullivan

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Software Engineer working on #geospatial #webapps for climate change research and other non-evil applications

Recovering art-tech academic, lecturer, creative technologist

GitHubhttps://github.com/LiamOSullivan
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My blog series The AI-Ready Software Developer is up to about 20,000 words. Grounded in the best evidence, it's everything LinkedIn didn't want to hear about LLM-assisted software engineering.

I'm like James Randi at a spoon-bending convention.

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/the-ai-ready-software-developer-index/

The AI-Ready Software Developer – Index

You attached a code-generating firehose to your dev plumbing, and measured the pressure of the water going in to be 10x what it was before. So you can’t understand why the business is complai…

Codemanship's Blog

@Pepijn a UK dance music mag (maybe Jockey Slut, or Muzik?) used to have a monthly artist interview page titled “Have you ever ridden a horse?” as that was always the final question.

I used to tell everyone that no, I had never ridden a horse, until I saw a photo of myself at about age 8, atop a very large horse

GitHub - indutny/no-slop-in-nodejs-core: A petition to disallow acceptance of LLM assisted Pull Requests in Node.js core

A petition to disallow acceptance of LLM assisted Pull Requests in Node.js core - indutny/no-slop-in-nodejs-core

GitHub
@anon_opin e ‘a lot of people are saying’ is the moron version of this

“Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you.”

These fucking women-hating weirdo assholes.

I used to think my nemesis was the finance bro. My mistake. It's the Tech Bro. Specifically, this kind.

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

The New Republic
@anon_opin Ryan Adams agrees, by all accounts
@ChrisDuffley @anon_opin yeah, I figure people mean different things because Microslop have smacked the Copilot label on everything. I also use it as the harness in VSCode with the Claude models and performs fine 🤷‍♂️

This is a big tick for some of my AI-Ready Software Developer principles.

But, heck, it just seems so obvious!

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/the-ai-ready-software-developer-12-ground-truth/

The AI-Ready Software Developer #12 – Ground Truth

When Large Language Models hit the headlines in late 2022, with much speculation about impending Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and the displacement of hundreds of millions of knowledge work…

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