Communications of the ACM
Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
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Outsourcing Responsibility
What do you do when your debugger fails you?
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This Is the Foo Field
The meaning of bits and avoiding upgrade bogdowns.
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A Lesson in Resource Management
Waste not memory, want not memory — unless it doesn't matter.
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The Naming of Hosts Is a Difficult Matter
Also, the perils of premature rebooting.
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Cherry-Picking and the Scientific Method
Software is supposed be a part of computer science, and science demands proof.
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Swamped By Automation
Whenever someone asks you to trust them, don't.
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Can More Code Mean Fewer Bugs?
The bytes you save today may bite you tomorrow.
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A Nice Piece of Code
Colorful metaphors and properly reusing functions.
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A System Is Not a Product
Stopping to smell the code before wasting time reentering configuration data.
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Scale Failure
Using a tool for the wrong job is OK until the day when it isn't.
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Wanton Acts of Debuggery
Keep your debug messages clear, useful, and not annoying.
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