Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

234. If Writing is Thinking…

Then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?

Jul 21 • 

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June 2025

233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper

This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI…

Jun 8 • 

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May 2025

232. From Typewriters to Transformers: AI is Just the Next Tools Abstraction

AI is a tool-driven revolution. That’s why it unnerves people. Freeman Dyson said in 1993, “Scientific revolutions are more often driven by new tools…

May 30 • 

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April 2025

231. When It Comes to Tariffs, China is Different

Much has been made of tariffs, but few have talked about the myriad of soft costs when it comes to international trade. Sharing my personal experience…

Apr 9 • 

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March 2025

230. MCP - It's Hot, But Will It Win?

There's a long history of "middleware" in our industry. Everyone wants it. There's always a hot one, but it rarely makes to the finish line and often…

Mar 28 • 

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229. "Tech Goes Hardcore" ... Again.

Our industry is cyclic but the latest wave of efficiency harkens back to the time when companies told us not to be penny wise v. pound foolish. It…

Mar 25 • 

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January 2025

228. DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us)

DeepSeek was certain to happen. The only unknown was who was going to do it. The choices were a startup or someone outside the current center of US AI…

Jan 27 • 

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227. CES 2025: An Abundance of (AI) Experimentation

CES proved a transition year with many established product lines showing incremental improvements or focusing on B2B areas and new product lines showing…

Jan 13 • 

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Remembering Mike Maples, Sr.

The computer industry lost a legendary executive this week with the passing of Mike Maples, Sr.

Jan 10 • 

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December 2024

225. Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—"Let's just…"

Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended

Dec 28, 2024 • 

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224. Books to Read and Gift (2024 EoY Edition)

A Books I Read in 2024 list. Some of them I enjoyed. Some of them drove me bonkers. I like that part of reading. Hope you enjoy this list.

Dec 1, 2024 • 

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November 2024

223. On the Toll of Being a Disruptor

It is very easy to be disruptive, but being a disruptor is enormously difficult technically and emotionally

Nov 26, 2024 • 

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