Reflections on Sudoku, or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought(rjp.io)

73 points by rjpower9000 1 year ago | 53 comments

Your app subscription is now my weekend project(rselbach.com)

501 points by robteix 9 months ago | 345 comments

Blog post by Roberto Selbach about replacing paid app subscriptions like Wispr Flow by vibecoding his own tools, such as a dictation app called Jabber.

Solving Sudoku with Tmux(willhbr.net)

67 points by mu0n 1 year ago | 4 comments

JavaScript Gom Jabbar(frantic.im)

527 points by disadvantage 3 years ago | 238 comments

A satirical blog post framing reading a JavaScript package.json file as a Dune-style Gom Jabbar test of pain for veteran developers.

I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows(jpain.io)

15 points by speckx 5 months ago | 9 comments

Guided by the beauty of our test suite(mattkeeter.com)

88 points by hasheddan 1 year ago | 9 comments

Making any integer with four 2s(eli.thegreenplace.net)

338 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 144 comments

Eli Bendersky's blog post on the puzzle of generating any natural number using exactly four 2s and arbitrary mathematical operations.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

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.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

AI is making me dumb(jpain.io)

407 points by Eighth 5 months ago | 247 comments

A personal blog post in which a software developer argues that relying on AI for writing code, articles, and documents is eroding his own writing and programming skills.

Programming Isn't Special(blog.glyph.im)

219 points by ingve 17 days ago | 236 comments

Blog post by Glyph arguing that programming is creative work like art and that programmers should resist AI as artists and writers have.