Nanochat(simonwillison.net)

26 points by bilsbie 1 year ago | 4 comments

Understanding ChatGPT Work(simonwillison.net)

281 points by gmays 1 month ago | 149 comments

Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built(simonwillison.net)

74 points by simonw 8 months ago | 39 comments

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin(simonwillison.net)

298 points by mustache_kimono 1 year ago | 267 comments

Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python(simonwillison.net)

88 points by gilad 3 years ago | 49 comments

Scaling long-running autonomous coding(simonwillison.net)

165 points by srameshc 9 months ago | 89 comments

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.

Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools(danieldelaney.net)

773 points by cryptophreak 1 year ago | 395 comments

Blog post by Daniel Delaney arguing that chat is a poor user interface pattern for AI-powered software development tools.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them(matthewsinclair.com)

323 points by matthewsinclair 1 year ago | 214 comments

Blog post by Matthew Sinclair arguing that LLM-powered programming tools act like a mech suit amplifying developers rather than replacing them.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age(manuel.kiessling.net)

370 points by briankelly 1 year ago | 273 comments

Blog post by Manuel Kießling on how experienced developers can use their skills to get better results from AI coding agents.