Why I love OCaml (2023)(mccd.space)

379 points by art-w 11 months ago | 270 comments

Personal blog post by Marc Coquand explaining why he loves OCaml, comparing it with Haskell and other languages he has used.

Why most of us won't be inventing little languages(slesinsky.org)

82 points by luu 3 years ago | 75 comments

Conway's Law and Coding Assistants(mishajw.com)

7 points by mishajw 2 years ago | 4 comments

Git without a forge(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

300 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 128 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)(madhadron.com)

321 points by helloplanets 6 months ago | 123 comments

Essay on the madhadron blog arguing programming languages descend from seven fundamental 'ur-languages' that learners should explore instead of similar mainstream languages.

Scaling HNSWs(antirez.com)

198 points by cyndunlop 11 months ago | 42 comments

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.

How I Use "AI"(nicholas.carlini.com)

331 points by npalli 2 years ago | 148 comments

Nicholas Carlini's personal essay describing how he uses large language models in his research and programming work, arguing they are not over-hyped.

Most arguments are about ego, not ideas(wangcong.org)

560 points by backlit4034 3 months ago | 431 comments

Personal blog post by a software engineer explaining why he stopped arguing with people over technical correctness and what he learned about arguments.

We have used too many levels of abstractions(unixsheikh.com)

674 points by riidom 3 years ago | 427 comments

An opinion essay on unixsheikh.com arguing that the software industry relies on too many layers of abstraction, leaving few people who understand how the underlying technology works.

Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?(arxiv.org)

194 points by canjobear 1 day ago | 167 comments

arXiv paper analyzing psycholinguistic features that make AI-generated text harder to understand, attributing it to optimization for information density.

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?(alexwennerberg.com)

384 points by epestr 12 days ago | 362 comments

Blog post by Alex Wennerberg arguing that rationalist community blog posts are excessively long and that verbosity substitutes for thoroughness.