Software development topics I've changed my mind on(chriskiehl.com)

806 points by belter 1 year ago | 737 comments

Personal blog post listing software development opinions the author changed after 10 years working in the industry.

We see something that works, and then we understand it(lemire.me)

198 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 77 comments

The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers (2024)(nhatcher.com)

98 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 8 comments

About AI(priver.dev)

53 points by emil_priver 1 year ago | 45 comments

A Better Regex Experience(polar.sh)

6 points by geokon 2 years ago | 0 comments

How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?(lemire.me)

61 points by zdw 4 months ago | 39 comments

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.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

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.

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey(theargumentmag.com)

450 points by ilamont 6 months ago | 240 comments

Kelsey Piper essay in The Argument on how AI models like Claude Opus 4.7 can identify her from about 150 words of writing, ending anonymity with AI.

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)(taalas.com)

804 points by sidnarsipur 8 months ago | 436 comments

Taalas blog post by Ljubisa Bajic arguing that latency and cost limit AI adoption and presenting its approach to very fast (17k tokens/sec) inference hardware.

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton(kasava.dev)

485 points by benbeingbin 8 months ago | 509 comments

Kasava blog post arguing AI should be treated as an exoskeleton that amplifies human capability rather than as an autonomous coworker.