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AI and SWE jobs: curse of knowledge vs. real engineering

· www.linkedin.com

Michal Ševčík argues experienced developers suffer the “curse of knowledge” and should relearn beginner struggle by picking unfamiliar languages or paradigms. He says AI can generate code but cannot own responsibility—y…

Lesson learned

Stay responsible for AI-written code by maintaining real expertise; deliberately learn hard, unfamiliar stacks to rebuild empathy with beginners and sharpen verification skills.

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Your CPU Is Lying to You

· muratkarslioglu.com

Research from Google, Meta, and industry papers shows “mercurial” CPU cores can silently return wrong results at roughly one affected machine per thousand, while storage-layer checksums (e.g., ZFS, object-store shard ha…

Lesson learned

Treat every CPU boundary as untrusted: use strong cryptographic verification at ingest and between processing stages, cross-check distributed replicas (e.g., gradient hashes), and design storage and AI pipelines for end-to-end integrity rather than disk-only guarantees.

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