Agent Skills(addyosmani.com)

343 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN 5 months ago | 168 comments

Addy Osmani's blog post introducing Agent Skills, an attempt to make AI coding agents follow senior-engineer practices like specs, tests, reviews, and scope discipline.

Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI(batsov.com)

169 points by psibi 7 months ago | 114 comments

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.

The day I taught AI to think like a Senior Developer(nmn.gl)

4 points by namanyayg 1 year ago | 0 comments

AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it(simonwillison.net)

207 points by walterbell 8 months ago | 206 comments

AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think(doliver.org)

76 points by d0liver 1 year ago | 106 comments

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.

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.

One Month Without AI(blog.bustikiller.com)

148 points by saibotk 1 month ago | 153 comments

Personal blog post about a developer spending a month without AI tools at work, reflecting on how AI use made them lazier and a worse developer.

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.

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise(nair.sh)

742 points by nilirl 5 months ago | 314 comments

Essay by Tuhin Nair on why senior software developers struggle to communicate their expertise to others.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.