Diomidis Spinellis
CoolSWEng@mastodon.acm.org
<p>Professor of software engineering, programmer, technology author. (Tech tweets here. Follow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@DSpinellis" class="u-url mention">@<span>DSpinellis</span></a></span> for Greek/Greece tweets.)</p>
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Today we launch a new run of the popular and award-winning free massive online course (MOOC) on the use of Unix Tools for data, software and production engineering. More than 7,500 learners enrolled on edX. Now, a further reason to follow the course is to improve your understanding of AI Agents&#39; actions and your interaction with them. More information at https://www.spinellis.gr/unix/?utm=md260508
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Vibe coding toward the incident horizon We are living through a golden age of generative AI: a time when progress is both breathtaking and somehow still unable to reliably open a PDF without hallucinating the author’s middle name. The curve is real, the funding is real, and the demos are so real that they must be watched on a stage with dramatic lighting, because ordinary lighting reveals too much. […] Read the complete text at https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20260302/?utm=md
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Several news outlets reported the amazing discovery of a 1970s Fourth Edition Research Unix magnetic tape. I incorporated the tape’s source code into the Unix History Repository hosted on GitHub and studied the code’s composition. Here's what I found. https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20251223/?ms261223