Working on Products People Hate(seangoedecke.com)

46 points by herbertl 7 months ago | 38 comments

How I ship projects at big tech companies(seangoedecke.com)

1297 points by gfysfm 1 year ago | 360 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog post on how he leads and ships projects at big tech companies, and the common mistakes engineers make when shipping.

Doing nothing at work(seangoedecke.com)

334 points by Sukram21 4 months ago | 116 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should work fewer hours at ~80% utilization because tech company performance is dominated by outlier, high-impact events.

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical(seangoedecke.com)

266 points by zdw 10 months ago | 194 comments

I build products to get "unplugged" from the internet(getunplugged.io)

21 points by keplerjst 9 months ago | 5 comments

Everything I know about good API design(seangoedecke.com)

347 points by ahamez 1 year ago | 120 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke sharing practical advice on designing good APIs, covering REST, GraphQL, and balancing familiarity with flexibility.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore(danluu.com)

592 points by Jach 2 months ago | 442 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing that LLM coding agents make specialized performance optimization cheap, illustrated with optimizing a regex engine for specific workloads.

My rude-ass car(neverbeclever.org)

399 points by isoprophlex 3 years ago | 418 comments

A personal blog post venting about the poor, intrusive software in the author's modern car and the broader enshittification of vehicles.

Why LLMs can't really build software(zed.dev)

321 points by srid 1 year ago | 196 comments

A Zed blog post by Conrad Irwin arguing that LLMs cannot really build software, drawing on his experience of what effective software engineers do.

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)

1029 points by poisonfountain 4 months ago | 967 comments

A personal blog post by a software engineer with 10 years of experience reflecting on how LLMs are eroding their career and their uncertainty about what to do.

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.