Vibe coding toward the incident horizon https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20260302 via @CoolSWEng

"We will call this “reasoning,” because optimism is a powerful runtime"

Interesting and provocative article by Prof. Karu Sankaralingam on CACM about the role of research and researchers in the AI era.

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the-inversion-what-remains-of-research-when-the-machine-can-ideate/

Not sure I necessarily agree with the conclusions, but it's an interesting take.

Recently, I have stumbled on more similar takes, e.g., John Carmack's take on intelligence vs "agency", and the recent blog post by Marc Booker on "the end of programming" and the sense of loss it entails.

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html

<enter Frodo-Gandalf Moria dialogue quote here :P>

#llm #ai #research #programming

"This code can be dated to some time in the one-year period from June 1974 to June 1975, probably early 1975, making it at least 50 years old and almost certainly the oldest code ever published in Queue. Thompson kept it for all that time and then shared it with me in September 2023. (I asked for it after he mentioned during a public talk that he was waiting for someone to ask! )"

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614

"1985 – Punic Wars: The mayors of Carthage and Rome signed a symbolic peace treaty to officially end the Third Punic War, 2,134 years after it began."

#til

Really cool talk from 39C3, presenting the implementation of a pipelined CPU, CLI/OS and FS in Factorio!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcQYEAr0Yos

Might be an interesting way to teach comparch and systems fundamentals.

#factorio #39c3

The Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) will host the 9th Computing Systems Research Day this Wednesday, January 7th, 2026, at the NTUA Zografou campus!

We are thrilled to host Professor Lieven Eeckhout (Ghent University, ACM and IEEE Fellow) as our keynote speaker this year! Professor Eeckhout will speak about sustainable processor design and the environmental impact of computing.

Join us for a day of technical talks and presentations on cutting-edge systems research on:
☁️ Serverless memory elasticity (Orestis Lagkas Nikolos, NTUA)
⚡ Accelerator-centric computing (Gerasimos Gerogiannis, UIUC)
🔧 eBPF page cache optimization (Yannis Zarkadas, Google)
🤖 DL inference sparsity (Georgios Goumas, NTUA)

📅 Date: Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026
📍 Venue: Ceremonial Hall, Central Administration Building, NTUA Zografou Campus
⏰ Start Time: 11:45 AM

Full program and details at http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/