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Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob — Charity Majors
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
10 links from the Observatory this week:
Archeology: How to Inherit a System Nobody Documented — Nikos Vasileiadis
At some point in your career, you will inherit a system that matters enormously to the business and comes with nothing: no documentation, no architecture diagrams, no runbooks, and nobody left in the building who built it. Most engineers treat this as a misfortune to complain about. I want to make the case that it’s one of the highest-leverage situations an engineering team can find itself in - if you approach it deliberately.
Hiring Is Asking for Fewer Skills and More Years. What That Means for Anyone Who Tests Code. — Rafaela Azevedo
Andreessen Horowitz ran a chart this week that I haven’t stopped thinking about.
Anthropic report - Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 — Anthropic
Over the past eight months, our Threat Intelligence team identified and disrupted operations in which threat actors tried to use Claude for malicious activity. In this report, we share case studies from those operations and describe how malicious use of Claude has evolved since our previous threat reports in March, August, and November 2025
ACCELQ Named a Leader in G2 Fall 2026 Reports
We are incredibly proud to announce another strong G2 performance for ACCELQ, earning multiple recognitions in the G2 Fall 2026 Reports. These achievements reflect authentic user feedback and ACCELQ’s continued performance across AI Software Testing Tools, Automation Testing, Software Testing, Test Management, Mobile App Testing, Continuous Integration, and DevOps.
Claude Certifications 2026: Exams, Preparation & My Experience — Oleksandr Romanov
Thinking about a Claude certification? I passed Developer and Architect Foundations. Here’s the exam structure, preparation plan, tips, and my verdict.
Lessons from La Poste’s IT Incident: Quality in Software Deployments — Emna Ayadi
On 15 September 2026, La Poste experienced a nationwide IT incident that prevented customers from sending parcels, mailing letters, and purchasing stamps in post offices across France !!
Invisible Leadership: Why Recognition Isn’t the Goal — Stu Day
We live in a world where recognition has become almost instant. Every time we post something online, there’s an opportunity for someone to like it, comment on it or share it. We receive notifications when people acknowledge what we’ve done and, over time, I think we’ve all become conditioned to expect that kind of immediate feedback. It’s become part of everyday life.
Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early — Matthew Guay
Imagine you’re Ray Ozzie, born half a decade after Turing outlined his Test to see if a machine is truly intelligent. You’re lucky enough to attend a high school with ARPA funding, ARPA of internet forerunner ARPANET fame, with Teletypes connected to time sharing mainframes, with a teacher looking for volunteers to figure out how to use the thing.
Capacity Isn’t Velocity — Alan Page
AI can make engineers faster, but it probably won’t make your organization faster.
The AI safety vibe shift — Platformer
Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about
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