Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill(twitter.com)

23 points by tosh 6 months ago | 8 comments

GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz(twitter.com)

27 points by laxmena 4 months ago | 8 comments

Niklaus Wirth has died(twitter.com)

1796 points by aarroyoc 2 years ago | 329 comments

A post on X by Bertrand Meyer announcing that Niklaus Wirth, pioneer of programming languages and software engineering, died on January 1, 2024.

GPT-4 has Seasonal Depression(twitter.com)

95 points by mcenedella 2 years ago | 29 comments

OpenAI's latest repo has Claude as the third top contributor(twitter.com)

46 points by mirzap 7 months ago | 17 comments

Kradle: Eval AI with Simulations(twitter.com)

9 points by ivolo 1 year ago | 5 comments

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.

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance(larsfaye.com)

490 points by larsfaye 2 months ago | 479 comments

Blog essay by Lars Faye arguing that reliance on AI coding tools removes the friction needed to develop long-term programming expertise.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

I don't like NumPy(dynomight.net)

399 points by MinimalAction 1 year ago | 164 comments

A Dynomight blog essay critiquing NumPy's design, arguing its array broadcasting and indexing make complex computations confusing.

A third way of using Linux(hisvirusness.com)

24 points by speckx 20 days ago | 35 comments

Blog post arguing that text user interfaces (TUIs) are an underappreciated third way of using Linux, between the command line and graphical desktops.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less(charitydotwtf.substack.com)

321 points by BerislavLopac 4 months ago | 157 comments

Charity Majors' Substack essay arguing that AI-assisted development requires more engineering discipline, comparing it to the shift from pet servers to immutable infrastructure.