Martin Fowler's link roundup covers several tech topics: a California fine for selling high-school students' data and the argument that fines must be proportional to revenue to deter misconduct; Charity Majors' call for engineers to proactively engage with generative AI rather than wait; the 'Apprentice Gap' concept warning that moving junior developers 'on the loop' too early risks losing deep engineering intuition; clarification that the 'ralph loop' for AI agents still requires active human observation; Anthropic's COBOL modernization claims and why direct AI translation is insufficient without deliberate architectural strategy; and a quip that an LLM is to a compiler as a slot machine is to an ATM.
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