RIP Usenix ATC(bcantrill.dtrace.org)
189 points by joecobb | 37 comments
First screen, captured .
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Optimizers need a rethink(typesanitizer.com)
132 points by ingve | 139 comments
Let's talk about LLMs(b-list.org)
161 points by cdrnsf | 142 comments
Why Janet? (2023)(ianthehenry.com)
424 points by yacin | 231 comments
Ian Henry's 2023 blog post arguing why programmers should try Janet, a small Lisp dialect, and promoting his free book about it.
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I'm addicted to being useful(seangoedecke.com)
519 points by swah | 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.
Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes(simonwillison.net)
339 points by ulrischa | 264 comments
Simon Willison blog post arguing that LLM hallucinations in code are the least harmful kind of mistake because running the code exposes them immediately.
There's no reason for software to be slow anymore(danluu.com)
592 points by Jach | 442 comments
Dan Luu essay arguing that LLM coding agents make specialized performance optimization cheap, illustrated with optimizing a regex engine for specific workloads.
The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)
376 points by cdrnsf | 471 comments
A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.
There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)
59 points by luu | 31 comments
An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.
I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)
457 points by lemper | 209 comments
A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.