Black Tulip
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Complexity Science & Software Design PhD. Creator of residuality theory. Philosophy of Software Architecture.
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If it hadn’t been for people like Semmelweis daring to think beyond the limitations set for them, instead of modern medicine we may have decided to go all in on putting more leeches on faster.
This feels relevant for some reason…
This feels relevant for some reason…
August 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
If it hadn’t been for people like Semmelweis daring to think beyond the limitations set for them, instead of modern medicine we may have decided to go all in on putting more leeches on faster.
This feels relevant for some reason…
This feels relevant for some reason…
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People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just lying. Or both.
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Requiem for a 10x Engineer Dream
People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just l...
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August 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just lying. Or both.
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Philosophy is being told you don’t know anything about philosophy because the person telling you has read a different book than you, but perservering anyway.
July 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Philosophy is being told you don’t know anything about philosophy because the person telling you has read a different book than you, but perservering anyway.
AI hype as the reversal of the Enlightment. Essay underway.
June 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
AI hype as the reversal of the Enlightment. Essay underway.
Hegel and Heidegger and Agile and OOP and now LLM’s and there’s suddenly so much bullshit in the world it feels like Sisyphus should have been given a research project instead of a rock.
June 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hegel and Heidegger and Agile and OOP and now LLM’s and there’s suddenly so much bullshit in the world it feels like Sisyphus should have been given a research project instead of a rock.
I am the baddies.
June 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I am the baddies.
Getting in the mood for Antwerp
May 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Getting in the mood for Antwerp
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Title caught me and I didnt get disappointed!
#architecture @ndcconferences.com
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#architecture @ndcconferences.com
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The Philosophy of Architecture - Barry O'Reilly - NDC Oslo 2024
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May 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Title caught me and I didnt get disappointed!
#architecture @ndcconferences.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZO...
#architecture @ndcconferences.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZO...
Still in utter shock because a philosopher said something nice about my book.
May 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Still in utter shock because a philosopher said something nice about my book.
You won’t be replaced by residuality theory, you’ll be replaced by someone using residuality theory. Hur dur.
May 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
You won’t be replaced by residuality theory, you’ll be replaced by someone using residuality theory. Hur dur.
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May 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Since we in tech love abstraction so much why not merge AI and tech marketing and tech sales so that all hallucinating can be done in one place.
May 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Since we in tech love abstraction so much why not merge AI and tech marketing and tech sales so that all hallucinating can be done in one place.
It’s been a few months six Ethel release of ”The Architects Paradox”. I’ve just read a glowing review of the book on LinkedIn.
This is first time I’ve stepped and thought about it, but that book was a lot. The reading list for it was INSANE. What was I thinking? I still haven’t really recovered.
This is first time I’ve stepped and thought about it, but that book was a lot. The reading list for it was INSANE. What was I thinking? I still haven’t really recovered.
May 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It’s been a few months six Ethel release of ”The Architects Paradox”. I’ve just read a glowing review of the book on LinkedIn.
This is first time I’ve stepped and thought about it, but that book was a lot. The reading list for it was INSANE. What was I thinking? I still haven’t really recovered.
This is first time I’ve stepped and thought about it, but that book was a lot. The reading list for it was INSANE. What was I thinking? I still haven’t really recovered.
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Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
Reality Check
I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this day, people are babbling about the "AI revolution" as the sky rains blood and crevices open...
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April 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
Crikey. Still going.
April 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Crikey. Still going.
Why is a cat grumpy? She bit me and beat up her sister. Lots of tail swishing. What is this?
April 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Why is a cat grumpy? She bit me and beat up her sister. Lots of tail swishing. What is this?
Just done a quiz to find out what kind of potato I am. That’s enough weekend for me.
April 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Just done a quiz to find out what kind of potato I am. That’s enough weekend for me.
How can people be so stupid as to not know what tariffs will do to the economy they ask as if we haven’t been pretending that statistics become conscious at scale for the last two years.
April 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
How can people be so stupid as to not know what tariffs will do to the economy they ask as if we haven’t been pretending that statistics become conscious at scale for the last two years.
I’ve had a bit of a breather from philosophy since I released the book and have been slowly making my way through Nietzsche’s works just for fun with no pressure. Now I’ve gone down a rabbit hole again and have some new ideas which means even more reading. I might add this as new walks to the book.
March 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I’ve had a bit of a breather from philosophy since I released the book and have been slowly making my way through Nietzsche’s works just for fun with no pressure. Now I’ve gone down a rabbit hole again and have some new ideas which means even more reading. I might add this as new walks to the book.
There always a bunch of people tech who say things like “you’re not a real programmer if you don’t know this language/construct etc” Long experience in the business teaches you that they are dickheads. When philosophers do this it’s the same thing, but at least the tech dickhead can build something.
March 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
There always a bunch of people tech who say things like “you’re not a real programmer if you don’t know this language/construct etc” Long experience in the business teaches you that they are dickheads. When philosophers do this it’s the same thing, but at least the tech dickhead can build something.
Nietzsche is the Sonic Youth of philosophers. It’s mostly noise and screeching but you’ll find a few decent melodies and you want to believe because the idea is soooo cool so you put yourself through it and you come to like it but in your 30’s you listen back for nostalgia and think WTF was that…
March 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Nietzsche is the Sonic Youth of philosophers. It’s mostly noise and screeching but you’ll find a few decent melodies and you want to believe because the idea is soooo cool so you put yourself through it and you come to like it but in your 30’s you listen back for nostalgia and think WTF was that…
Emerging from that little philosophy phase and now multivariate calculus and fluid dynamics. Rabbit holes galore!
March 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Emerging from that little philosophy phase and now multivariate calculus and fluid dynamics. Rabbit holes galore!
Residues is soaring back up the charts as it becomes recommended reading in Brussels.
March 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Residues is soaring back up the charts as it becomes recommended reading in Brussels.
Maybe I should rewrite Residues for folks who aren’t software developers, like for instance if you were running a large integration of countries and markets across a continent and had trouble figuring out what was a priority.
March 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Maybe I should rewrite Residues for folks who aren’t software developers, like for instance if you were running a large integration of countries and markets across a continent and had trouble figuring out what was a priority.
So many people posting on SM ”I asked this LLM to analyze the political situation” and why do I have to live on the same planet as them?
March 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
So many people posting on SM ”I asked this LLM to analyze the political situation” and why do I have to live on the same planet as them?