Jan van den Berg

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The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI

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An update to Brooks's Law in the age of AI.

I don't understand terminals, shells and SSH

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Confession time: I don't fully understand how terminals, shells and SSH really work (and my guess is you don't either). And I don't mean the cryptography behind SSH. I mean how SSH and the terminal — and the shell for that matter — interact with one another.