NASA's oldest active astronaut is also one of the most curious humans(arstechnica.com)

10 points by andyjohnson0 2 years ago | 3 comments

Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos(arstechnica.com)

35 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 32 comments

Jef Raskin's cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer(arstechnica.com)

40 points by pinewurst 1 year ago | 9 comments

FAA closes SpaceX Starship mishap investigation(apnews.com)

135 points by fnordpiglet 3 years ago | 121 comments

The Tesla Semi from an Insider's View After One Year: "Hot Mess"(bradmunchen.substack.com)

124 points by jojobas 2 years ago | 157 comments

X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls(popsci.com)

158 points by Hooke 1 year ago | 59 comments

The product manager role is a mistake(sollecitom.github.io)

354 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 306 comments

Blog post arguing that the product manager role, as popularly modeled in software companies, is a mistake.

The Eternal Sloptember(geohot.github.io)

347 points by razin 5 months ago | 280 comments

A blog post by George Hotz arguing that adopting AI coding agents in software development is a costly mistake because their output is subtly broken.

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.

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.

Most arguments are about ego, not ideas(wangcong.org)

560 points by backlit4034 3 months ago | 431 comments

Personal blog post by a software engineer explaining why he stopped arguing with people over technical correctness and what he learned about arguments.

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.