The bottleneck was never the code(thetypicalset.com)

538 points by Anon84 5 months ago | 349 comments

Blog post reflecting on how coding agents like Codex quickly built a long-postponed structured-generation experiment, arguing code was never the real bottleneck.

The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs(benshoemaker.us)

66 points by straydusk 8 months ago | 145 comments

"Coding is solved" misses the point(blog.mastykarz.nl)

14 points by listless 2 months ago | 5 comments

Code is cheap now, but software isn't(chrisgregori.dev)

83 points by fs_software 9 months ago | 33 comments

Writing code by hand is over, forever(eliocapella.com)

11 points by aray07 22 days ago | 8 comments

A personal blog post by a developer of 18 years explaining how Claude Code with Opus 4.5 led him to stop writing code by hand entirely.

Understanding is the new bottleneck(geoffreylitt.com)

401 points by sebg 2 months ago | 221 comments

Geoffrey Litt's written version of an AI Engineer conference talk arguing developers still need to understand agent-written code, with ideas for understanding it efficiently.

Software engineers hate code(dancowell.com)

323 points by dfcowell 3 years ago | 185 comments

A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up(linear.app)

300 points by julian_digital 1 month ago | 367 comments

A Linear engineering blog post explaining how AI-assisted coding increased CI load and how the team reworked its CI pipeline to keep up.

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work(simonwillison.net)

777 points by simonw 10 months ago | 599 comments

Simon Willison blog post arguing developers must prove their code works through manual and automated testing before submitting it, especially when using LLM tools.

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance(larsfaye.com)

490 points by larsfaye 2 months ago | 479 comments

Blog essay by Lars Faye arguing that reliance on AI coding tools removes the friction needed to develop long-term programming expertise.

How good engineers write bad code at big companies(seangoedecke.com)

348 points by gfysfm 11 months ago | 236 comments

Sean Goedecke blog post explaining why competent engineers at big tech companies produce sloppy code, citing short tenures and engineers working outside their expertise.

The bottleneck was never the code(thetypicalset.com)

538 points by Anon84 5 months ago | 349 comments

Blog post reflecting on how coding agents like Codex quickly built a long-postponed structured-generation experiment, arguing code was never the real bottleneck.