Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)(github.com)

351 points by dhorthy 3 months ago | 250 comments

A markdown essay in HumanLayer's GitHub repo arguing why AI-driven software factories fail and that harness engineering alone is not enough for coding agents.

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench(github.com)

367 points by dhorthy 3 months ago | 100 comments

A markdown report in HumanLayer's GitHub repo benchmarking Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 model on the SlopCodeBench coding benchmark.

Show HN: Linggen – A local-first memory layer for your AI (Cursor, Zed, Claude)(github.com)

12 points by linggen 10 months ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code(github.com)

53 points by ddaniel10 8 months ago | 39 comments

Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs(github.com)

140 points by simonpure 1 year ago | 27 comments

SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful(github.com)

286 points by dhorthy 10 days ago | 112 comments

A GitHub markdown writeup from HumanLayer reporting October 2026 SlopCodeBench results for coding models including Opus 5.5, Astra, and gpt-5.5.

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.

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it(github.com)

747 points by wrxd 8 months ago | 581 comments

A closed GitHub pull request to matplotlib by user crabby-rathbun proposing to replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for performance.

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.

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.

Train Your Own LLM from Scratch(github.com)

376 points by kristianpaul 5 months ago | 43 comments

GitHub repository by angelos-p providing code and docs for training your own large language model from scratch.

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.