What do you visualize while programming?(dillonshook.com)

85 points by dillonshook 2 years ago | 138 comments

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.

Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB(laurent.le-brun.eu)

71 points by laurentlb 10 months ago | 11 comments

Unicode is harder than you think(mcilloni.ovh)

99 points by mcilloni 3 years ago | 65 comments

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)(vgel.me)

231 points by ofou 1 year ago | 74 comments

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp(scotto.me)

170 points by silcoon 3 months ago | 117 comments

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

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.

The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok(bramcohen.com)

541 points by drob518 6 months ago | 454 comments

Bram Cohen blog post arguing that the leaked Claude source code's poor quality reflects vibe coding dogfooding taken to cult-like extremes.

Getting AI to work in complex codebases(github.com)

442 points by dhorthy 1 year ago | 368 comments

A GitHub markdown document from HumanLayer describing advanced context engineering techniques for getting AI coding agents to work in complex codebases.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.

A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis(nmn.gl)

417 points by namanyayg 1 year ago | 215 comments

A blog post describing an experiment in getting AI to analyze codebases the way a senior developer reads code, prompted by failures on a React codebase.