You can't design software you don't work on(seangoedecke.com)

258 points by saikatsg 10 months ago | 93 comments

Everything I know about good API design(seangoedecke.com)

347 points by ahamez 1 year ago | 120 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke sharing practical advice on designing good APIs, covering REST, GraphQL, and balancing familiarity with flexibility.

Getting things “done” in large tech companies(seangoedecke.com)

227 points by swah 1 year ago | 158 comments

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical(seangoedecke.com)

266 points by zdw 10 months ago | 194 comments

'Make invalid states unrepresentable' considered harmful(seangoedecke.com)

49 points by zdw 1 year ago | 49 comments

Doing nothing at work(seangoedecke.com)

334 points by Sukram21 4 months ago | 116 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should work fewer hours at ~80% utilization because tech company performance is dominated by outlier, high-impact events.

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.

Domain expertise has always been the real moat(brethorsting.com)

774 points by aaronbrethorst 4 months ago | 484 comments

Blog post arguing that agentic AI shifts software's binding constraint from building code to judging correctness, making domain expertise the real moat.

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.

Don't build AI products the way everyone else is doing it(builder.io)

469 points by tortilla 3 years ago | 219 comments

Builder.io blog post by Steve Sewell arguing against building AI products as thin LLM wrappers and describing an alternative approach to building them.

You are never taught how to build quality software(florianbellmann.com)

480 points by RunOrVeith 2 years ago | 411 comments

Blog post by Florian Bellmann arguing that software developers are never formally taught how to build quality software and discussing QA practices.

Why LLMs can't really build software(zed.dev)

321 points by srid 1 year ago | 196 comments

A Zed blog post by Conrad Irwin arguing that LLMs cannot really build software, drawing on his experience of what effective software engineers do.