Doing Everyone Else's Job(yosefk.com)

184 points by luu 1 month ago | 88 comments

People can read their manager's mind (2015)(yosefk.com)

189 points by luu 2 years ago | 57 comments

All means are fair except solving the problem(yosefk.com)

70 points by akkartik 5 months ago | 48 comments

Refix: Fast, Debuggable, Reproducible Builds(yosefk.com)

99 points by luu 2 years ago | 34 comments

Profiling with Ctrl-C(yosefk.com)

66 points by jstanley 2 years ago | 29 comments

Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024)(yosefk.com)

79 points by hun3 9 months ago | 13 comments

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes(dank.systems)

426 points by jaykru 1 month ago | 552 comments

Personal blog essay by Jay Kruer arguing LLMs remain overhyped despite headline results like Navier-Stokes, citing poor generalization, reward hacking, and specification costs.

Good software knows when to stop(ogirardot.writizzy.com)

519 points by ssaboum 7 months ago | 261 comments

Blog post by Olivier Girardot arguing that good software should know when to stop adding features, opening with a hypothetical surprising change to the ls command.

Excellence is a habit, but so is failure(awesomekling.github.io)

702 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 223 comments

A personal blog essay by Andreas Kling arguing that small incremental neglect and poor choices accumulate into failure just as small improvements build excellence.

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing(robert-glaser.de)

355 points by youngbrioche 5 months ago | 234 comments

Robert Glaser's blog essay on why companies fail to turn individual AI tool use into organizational learning and team capabilities.

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.

React is winning by default and slowing innovation(lorenstew.art)

640 points by dbushell 1 year ago | 729 comments

A blog post arguing that React's dominance as the default frontend framework carries hidden costs and stifles innovation, urging deliberate framework choices.