Thank You For Being a Friend
It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the GMI (Guaranteed
Latest / April 20, 2026
Posts from April 20, 2026
4 posts from engineering leaders published April 20, 2026, by Jeff Atwood, Filippo Valsorda, Jade Rubick and 1 more.
Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys
There is no need to update symmetric key sizes as part of the post-quantum transition, due to the details of how Grover's algorithm scales. Most authorities agree.
How to reason about reliability risk
Outlines an approach to reasoning about reliability risk
Build yourself flowers
This is an edited transcript of the keynote I gave at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA in April 2026. I first wrote a draft of this talk by hand. This part took 2 months. I then recorded myself giving a version of this talk with MacWhisper , and…