My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it(matthewrocklin.com)

151 points by akshayka 9 months ago | 208 comments

Reflections on 10k Hours of DevOps(matt-rickard.com)

53 points by polyrand 3 years ago | 20 comments

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.

GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement(lalitm.com)

67 points by lalitmaganti 2 months ago | 88 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI(danielvaughn.dev)

334 points by danielvaughn 2 months ago | 178 comments

Blog post introducing Huzzah, an experimental editor where you write pseudocode that is synced to real source code by AI on save, with the pseudocode kept as intent.

9 years of Apple text editor solo dev(papereditor.app)

683 points by pimterry 2 years ago | 326 comments

A developer's retrospective on nine years of building Paper, a text editor for Apple platforms, as a solo maker.

Thoughts on thinking(dcurt.is)

588 points by bradgessler 1 year ago | 367 comments

Dustin Curtis's blog essay reflecting on how AI and LLMs have made his own writing, coding, and creative thinking feel pointless.

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.

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.

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.

We should be more ambitious with the software we build(danluu.com)

857 points by ltratt 1 day ago | 744 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing that advancing AI coding models let developers build more ambitious software, citing pgrust, a regex engine, ripgrep fork, and board game AI projects.

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet(worksonmymachine.substack.com)

475 points by Stwerner 1 year ago | 368 comments

Scott Werner's Substack essay arguing nobody yet knows how to build software with AI, drawing on building Protocollie in four days without touching the code.