The current state of LLM-driven development(blog.tolki.dev)

192 points by Signez 1 year ago | 191 comments

Vim Boss(neovim.io)

1189 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 112 comments

A Neovim news post from August 2023 paying tribute to Vim creator Bram Moolenaar and reflecting on his character and influence.

Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective(eshumarneedi.com)

165 points by ExMachina73 3 months ago | 146 comments

Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp(fratepietro.com)

20 points by antonellof 2 months ago | 22 comments

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite(andersmurphy.com)

344 points by speckx 10 months ago | 124 comments

Blog post by Anders Murphy benchmarking SQLite at 100k transactions per second over a billion rows, arguing its embedded single-writer design helps it scale.

Raku: A language for gremlins(buttondown.email)

355 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 180 comments

Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post describing the Raku programming language as a quirky language 'by gremlins, for gremlins'.

Markov chains are the original language models(elijahpotter.dev)

427 points by chilipepperhott 1 year ago | 154 comments

A blog post by Elijah Potter explaining Markov chains as early language models and how they generate text.

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.

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit(lesswrong.com)

474 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 375 comments

LessWrong linkpost essay arguing recent AI model improvements feel overstated, based on experience building an AI codebase security-scanning startup.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)

549 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 134 comments

Rachel Thomas blog post on how a high-profile Nature paper using a Transformer to predict enzyme functions contained many errors that received far less attention than the original result.

Everything in C is undefined behavior(blog.habets.se)

459 points by lycopodiopsida 5 months ago | 598 comments

Personal blog post arguing that nobody can write correct C or C++ because nearly all code triggers undefined behavior, and that the languages are outdated.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.