I'm becoming AI-blind(cymerys.com)

462 points by rcymerys 2 months ago | 468 comments

Personal blog post by Rafal Cymerys describing how he struggles to focus on documents at work, feeling increasingly 'blind' to AI-generated text.

The AI Productivity Gap(bjorg.bjornroche.com)

74 points by kiyanwang 2 months ago | 69 comments

How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?(lemire.me)

61 points by zdw 4 months ago | 39 comments

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.

We see something that works, and then we understand it(lemire.me)

198 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 77 comments

Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold(jsnover.com)

748 points by naves 6 months ago | 529 comments

Jeffrey Snover's blog post arguing Microsoft has lacked a coherent Windows GUI development strategy for decades since the Petzold-era Win32 programming.

Root for your friends(josephthacker.com)

383 points by rez0123 1 year ago | 149 comments

Personal blog post by Joseph Thacker arguing that genuinely supporting and celebrating friends' successes improves career and happiness.

You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites(lelouch.dev)

625 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 351 comments

A personal blog post arguing that struggling with math usually stems from missing prerequisite knowledge rather than lack of intelligence.

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)

1015 points by dondraper36 1 year ago | 364 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals(joanwestenberg.com)

343 points by MaysonL 1 year ago | 182 comments

A blog essay by Joan Westenberg arguing that smart people create limits and constraints for themselves rather than chasing goals.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.

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.