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🔗 The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can

The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can by Ethan Mollick A thought-provoking article that, on the surface, explores which modality of AI agent deployment is more likely to succeed in a large organisation — agents carefully designed around organisational processes, or general-purpose agents trained to seek successful outcomes (RL, for example). But dig a little deeper, and it raises a more fundamental question: what shape will successful AI-powered products take?

🔗 APOSD vs Clean Code

APOSD vs Clean Code This document is the result of a series of discussions, some online and some in person, held between Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin and John Ousterhout between September 2024 and February 2025. John is the author of the book A Philosophy of Software Design (APOSD), a book that was first published in 2018. This book has been on my “to read” list for a while now—I’ve heard very good reviews for it from a lot of people. “Uncle Bob” Martin and his 2008 book Clean Code of course need no introduction. Clean Code is one of the...