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La Naturaleza del Software
The Nature of Software. A blog about technology and its impact on people.
Written by Eduardo Díaz since 2005. 145 posts translated so far; the full archive is in Spanish.
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- New look, same blog
The blog has a new look, and there’s something else new: from now on the posts will be in English too. I’m translating the back catalog with the help of AI, so my apologies in …
- Stop believing everything a random guy on Twitter (X) says
Gil Gerard, an eighties actor who starred in the sci-fi series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, realized how much potential there was in exploiting a large fan base. It was already …
- The weekend I never had
This week I canceled two services I was subscribed to. I usually have annual subscriptions to services like Dropbox or Microsoft 365. That last one I signed up for several years …
- Simple programming with kaikai
“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.” — Edsger Dijkstra In the previous post I covered the method: how to build a complete compiler in a month while life goes on. But I …
- The method matters more than the model
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, defined AGI as the stage where the use of AI has a massive impact on world GDP. For Altman, success is the arrival of the first one-person unicorn: …
- Your agents need a boss
You probably think you’ll install Claude, the AI will solve all your problems, and you’ll finally have time to work on raising your Elo on chess.com. But no, “sweetie”, that’s not …
- Advanced procrastination
There’s a form of procrastination that is especially treacherous because it disguises itself as work. It’s not sitting around watching Netflix. It’s not scrolling Bluesky. It’s …
- Building my own agent
A little over a month ago I wrote about the power of agents. In that post I described how I was experimenting with OpenClaw, an open source agent that promised to be “the AI that …
- Kimun: measuring the quality of AI-generated code
“You can’t control what you can’t measure.” – Tom DeMarco There’s an old fear in our profession. It isn’t new, but AI amplified it: how do I know the code I’m generating is any …
- The power of agents
As I write this, I have two Claude agents working on a personal open source project. One is reviewing vulnerabilities and architecture problems. The other is writing a couple of …
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