I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer(lalitm.com)

502 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 226 comments

Blog post by a Google Senior Staff engineer explaining why he prioritizes long-term systems stewardship over high-visibility spotlight work, responding to Sean Goedecke's essays.

Ghostty is leaving GitHub(mitchellh.com)

3380 points by WadeGrimridge 6 months ago | 1008 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing that the Ghostty terminal emulator project is moving off GitHub, reflecting on his long history with the platform.

What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes(notnotp.com)

228 points by chmaynard 4 months ago | 173 comments

The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs(benshoemaker.us)

66 points by straydusk 8 months ago | 145 comments

My .config Ship of Theseus(shift1w.com)

28 points by jacobwiseberg 6 months ago | 12 comments

Problems with AWS Amplify and its use of DynamoDB(samthor.au)

111 points by kevinslin 3 years ago | 57 comments

The cost of getting a job today(weli.dev)

23 points by weli 11 days ago | 23 comments

A personal blog post by a new Head of Engineering at a startup reflecting on hiring and how much more than skills it takes to get a job today.

Personal software factories are a waste of time(peterp.me)

63 points by thegreatpeter 7 days ago | 64 comments

A blog post arguing software engineers should not spend time building personal AI-driven software factories and should instead build actual products.

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work(simonwillison.net)

777 points by simonw 10 months ago | 599 comments

Simon Willison blog post arguing developers must prove their code works through manual and automated testing before submitting it, especially when using LLM tools.

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.

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.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.