A Swiss firm’s software mines the world’s knowledge for patent opportunities(spectrum.ieee.org)

10 points by geox 2 years ago | 5 comments

Jim Boddie codeveloped the first successful DSP at Bell Labs(spectrum.ieee.org)

39 points by jnord 1 year ago | 1 comments

Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century(spectrum.ieee.org)

129 points by cyberlimerence 2 years ago | 25 comments

Vint Cerf’s career advice for engineers(spectrum.ieee.org)

118 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 78 comments

CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download(spectrum.ieee.org)

236 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 125 comments

Science Fiction Short: Hijack(spectrum.ieee.org)

33 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 10 comments

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less(charitydotwtf.substack.com)

321 points by BerislavLopac 4 months ago | 157 comments

Charity Majors' Substack essay arguing that AI-assisted development requires more engineering discipline, comparing it to the shift from pet servers to immutable infrastructure.

Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution(effectiviology.com)

1513 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 1032 comments

Effectiviology article explaining the Shirky Principle, the idea that institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

I'm addicted to being useful(seangoedecke.com)

519 points by swah 9 months ago | 265 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog essay on loving his software engineering job because he is driven by being useful, drawing on Gogol's The Overcoat.

The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent(ssp.sh)

317 points by zazuke 28 days ago | 204 comments

A short note in a personal knowledge base arguing that the real problem with AI-generated code is that teams no longer understand their system architecture or the intent behind design decisions.

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.

Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence(onepercentrule.substack.com)

318 points by drcwpl 2 years ago | 81 comments

A Substack essay profiling logician Alonzo Church and his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem as a foundational contribution to computer science.