Reading across books with Claude Code(pieterma.es)

117 points by gmays 9 months ago | 27 comments

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.

No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user(martinalderson.com)

401 points by jnord 7 months ago | 292 comments

Blog post by Martin Alderson rebutting a Forbes claim that Anthropic's $200/month Claude Code Max plan consumes $5,000 in compute per user.

How dependabot works(nesbitt.io)

57 points by zdw 9 months ago | 11 comments

GitHub Copilot emits GPL code(codeium.com)

465 points by fortenforge 3 years ago | 300 comments

Codeium blog post arguing that GitHub Copilot reproduces GPL-licensed code while Codeium excludes non-permissive code from its training data.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)(vgel.me)

231 points by ofou 1 year ago | 74 comments

How to build a coding agent(ghuntley.com)

425 points by ghuntley 1 year ago | 112 comments

Geoffrey Huntley's blog post presenting a free workshop on how to build your own AI coding agent.

Writing code by hand is over, forever(eliocapella.com)

11 points by aray07 22 days ago | 8 comments

A personal blog post by a developer of 18 years explaining how Claude Code with Opus 4.5 led him to stop writing code by hand entirely.

Agents.md speaks Unix, and you should too(fmind.dev)

10 points by fmind-dev 1 month ago | 2 comments

Blog post by Médéric Hurier arguing that AGENTS.md files should guide coding agents using Unix tools, with lessons from his dotfiles and human review.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

Lines of code got a better publicist(curlewis.co.nz)

417 points by RyeCombinator 4 months ago | 288 comments

A blog post by David Curlewis arguing that AI-era productivity metrics are repackaging lines of code as a measure of developer output.

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.