Travel agents took 10 years to collapse. Developers are 3 years in(martinalderson.com)

12 points by martinald 10 months ago | 12 comments

What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?(martinalderson.com)

129 points by martinald 1 year ago | 137 comments

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab(martinalderson.com)

658 points by martinald 4 months ago | 507 comments

Blog post by Martin Alderson arguing xAI's capacity deals with Anthropic and Google make it resemble a datacentre REIT more than a frontier AI lab.

The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead(boristane.com)

49 points by zenon_paradox 8 months ago | 39 comments

Malleable Software(mdubakov.me)

90 points by tablet 1 year ago | 79 comments

Figma's woes compound with Claude Design(martinalderson.com)

80 points by martinald 6 months ago | 70 comments

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.

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.

An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs(jamesshore.com)

331 points by cratermoon 5 months ago | 99 comments

James Shore blog post arguing that AI coding agents must cut software maintenance costs proportionally to how much they speed up code writing.

AI makes tech debt more expensive(gauge.sh)

436 points by 0x63_Problems 1 year ago | 213 comments

A Gauge blog article arguing that AI coding tools make technical debt more costly rather than less relevant.

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.

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.