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Uwe Friedrichsen
Personal blog · ufried.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Uwe Friedrichsen's personal blog at ufried.com covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times, most often “The Right Dose of Resilience”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Uwe Friedrichsen's blog for its 'Ironies of AI' essays on human oversight of AI output and its 'reusability fallacy' series on software reuse.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Uwe Friedrichsen's web site and blog. Mostly, but not strictly related to IT.
Most-linked posts?
- The Right Dose of Resilience3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-16
- The Reusability Fallacy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-15
- Solving the Wrong Problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-12
- AI and the Ironies of Automation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-24
- A note about eventual consistency2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-20
- The reusability fallacy – Part 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-28
- AI and the ironies of automation – Part 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-14
- Microservices: Microliths as a Resonable Alternative2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-12
- The continuous amnesia issue in IT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-20
- You are not left behind: Reassessing a fear-mongering phrase2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-22
What Hacker News says?
Like my own his English is good but not that good. His seems the right way to explain (there probably is a formal description for the style of writing (and a word for it in German)) but when reception is not guaranteed (I keep feeling like I almost got his point.) I would lower myself to explaining by code example. Something like a "hello world" of usable vs re-usable. Someone more skilled in the art should probably…
Comment linking /blog/reusability_fallacy_3/
on “The reusability fallacy – Part 3”Submitted AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2 as a story · 256 points
HN discussionPart 1: https://www.ufried.com/blog/reusability_fallacy_1/ Part 2: https://www.ufried.com/blog/reusability_fallacy_2/ Part 1 was posted previously but without much discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22583605
Comment linking /blog/reusability_fallacy_2/
on “The reusability fallacy – Part 3”Submitted Systems Thinking and Quality as a story · 125 points
HN discussionIn my opinion, the way this will play out is with a significant amount of validation and human oversight to fully utilize these LLMs. As you mentioned, I recommend giving the AI room for error and improving the experience of manually checking everything. Maybe create a tool to facilitate manually checking the output? This is a valuable read: https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_1/
Comment linking /blog/ironies_of_ai_1/
on “AI hallucinate. Do you ever double check the output?”Submitted The reusability fallacy – Part 3 as a story · 89 points
HN discussion> There is a whole giant essay I probably need to write at some point, but I can't help but see parallels between today and the Industrial Revolution. You might want to give the following Articles a read then: https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_1/ https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_2/
Comment linking /blog/ironies_of_ai_2/
on “The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess”Submitted Solving the Wrong Problem as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted The (Business) Process Deadlock as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Microservices Fallacy as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Projects considered harmful – Part 1 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software it's not what you think it is (2023) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A note about eventual consistency – Part 1 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A note about eventual consistency as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding concept spill in API design as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The continuous amnesia issue in IT as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted We are our own worst enemies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Application is down – it is always your fault as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Value of Speed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Reusability Fallacy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Laws of Architectural Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Essence of Architecture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You are not left behind: Reassessing a fear-mongering phrase as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forget Technical Debt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software – It's not what you think it is as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Continuous Amnesia Issue as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Right Dose of Resilience as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Need Resilient Software Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Reusability Fallacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It has never been about code as a story · 1 points
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