Echoes of Saudade
This is a blog of both echoes and whispers. Some things are built to withstand pressure. Others we simply carry with us, echoing back at unexpected moments. This is a blog about both, dependable systems and undependable moves, written from a career that started in Portugal and continues, now, in the United States.
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Twenty-Five Years of Benchmarking
These days, I received an email that brought me back in time. Nothing dramatic, just a routine thread of the Transaction Processing Performance Cou...
Nobody Escaped Anything
A reflection on the OpenAI and Hugging Face security incident, containment boundaries, goal limits, and institutional cooperation.
It Isn't Just the Students
A reflection on the feeling of overwhelm generated by AI at three levels of university life: the student, the faculty, and the institution, and how...
Bacalhau à Brás and Software Engineering
A reflection on the parallel between cooking Bacalhau à Brás and writing prompts for generative AI coding tools, exploring the difference between p...
Whispers
Twenty-Five Years of Benchmarking
Fado and Metal
Adler: Not What the Room Expected
Latest Echoes
Nobody Escaped Anything
A reflection on the OpenAI and Hugging Face security incident, containment boundaries, goal limits, and institutional cooperation.
It Isn't Just the Students
A reflection on the feeling of overwhelm generated by AI at three levels of university life: the student, the faculty, and the institution, and how we choose to respond to it.
Bacalhau à Brás and Software Engineering
A reflection on the parallel between cooking Bacalhau à Brás and writing prompts for generative AI coding tools, exploring the difference between programming and software engineering.
Adler, By Accident
A reflection on Alfred Adler's ideas of inferiority and growth, and how they apply to the age of generative AI, software engineering, and personal change.
Teaching Software Engineering in the Age of Generative AI: What Is Really at Stake?
A reflection on the impact of generative AI on software engineering education and what it means for the future of the profession.
Echoes of Saudade
A reflection on resilience, systems, and moving across an ocean.