What the Goddamn Hell Is Going on in the Tech Industry?(ludic.mataroa.blog)

185 points by l0b0 3 years ago | 145 comments

I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars(ludic.mataroa.blog)

851 points by softskunk 3 years ago | 375 comments

Blog post from Ludicity describing how the author saved their company half a million dollars in minutes by changing a configuration setting, and criticizing industry dysfunction.

A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff(rachelbythebay.com)

212 points by ingve 2 years ago | 139 comments

Weird Lexical Syntax(justine.lol)

407 points by jart 2 years ago | 214 comments

Justine Tunney's blog post surveying surprising lexical syntax quirks across 42 programming languages learned while building a syntax highlighter for llamafile.

Flexible schemas are the mindkiller(ludic.mataroa.blog)

63 points by l0b0 2 years ago | 38 comments

GitHub Spam(djanes.xyz)

120 points by bl4ckneon 2 years ago | 69 comments

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)

1029 points by poisonfountain 4 months ago | 967 comments

A personal blog post by a software engineer with 10 years of experience reflecting on how LLMs are eroding their career and their uncertainty about what to do.

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.

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.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career(seangoedecke.com)

380 points by movis 5 months ago | 624 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog post arguing that because AI use reduces learning on the job, software engineering may no longer be a lifelong career.