Thomas Depierre (Musings about software)
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- Thomas Depierre (Musings about software)
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- Elixir and DevOps consultant blogging at softwaremaxims.com; evidence-first takes on software practice and LLM skepticism
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- blog, llm-skepticism
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- 2026-07-18
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- 2026-07-18
Thomas Depierre's blog "Musings about software" at softwaremaxims.com. An Elixir and DevOps consultant who argues from empirical software-engineering research rather than anecdote, and applies the same lens to LLM coding tools. Best known outside this vault for the 2024 "I am not a supplier" post on open-source maintainer obligations written in the wake of the xz backdoor (see xz-utils-incident).
His LLM skepticism is the falsifiable, evidence-anchored kind — he states what data would change his mind — which places him in the engineering/craft slot of anti-llm-discourse rather than the rhetorical-refusal one.
Ingested articles
- reviewing-ai-code — why "just review the AI's code like an intern's" collapses against the empirical code-review literature (code-review-throughput-limits)
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