"Coding is solved" misses the point(blog.mastykarz.nl)

14 points by listless 2 months ago | 5 comments

Code is cheap now, but software isn't(chrisgregori.dev)

83 points by fs_software 9 months ago | 33 comments

The unbearable slowness of AI coding(joshuavaldez.com)

91 points by aymandfire 1 year ago | 59 comments

Better Models: Worse Tools(lucumr.pocoo.org)

193 points by leemoore 3 months ago | 66 comments

Don't mock machine learning models in unit tests(eugeneyan.com)

55 points by 7d7n 2 years ago | 50 comments

Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews(seangoedecke.com)

52 points by zdw 1 year ago | 45 comments

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf](web.mit.edu)

722 points by sam_bristow 4 months ago | 243 comments

A 2001 California Management Review paper by Nelson Repenning and John Sterman on why process improvement programs often fail and how to create and sustain them.

There is more to code review than (automatable) detection(adaptivecapacitylabs.com)

142 points by utiiiD 1 month ago | 88 comments

Adaptive Capacity Labs blog post arguing that code review involves more than defect detection that can be automated.

Coding is not solved(blog.alexewerlof.com)

458 points by firstSpeaker 28 days ago | 459 comments

Alex Ewerlöf's opinion essay arguing that AI and LLM coding tools have not solved software coding, drawing on his experience building AI systems.

When the machine boots but the reply disappears(mainbrella.com)

4 points by cs1996 18 days ago | 3 comments

Mainbrella engineering blog post on designing its backend so retries are safe when a Linux machine is created but the reply to the client is lost.

Why don't more developers “use the platform”?(nolanlawson.com)

304 points by vinhnx 22 days ago | 318 comments

Nolan Lawson blog post examining why web developers often don't "use the platform" and rely on JavaScript instead of built-in browser features.

A decade later, a decade lost (2024)(meyerweb.com)

503 points by ZeWaka 1 year ago | 151 comments

Eric Meyer's personal blog post reflecting on the tenth anniversary of his daughter Rebecca's death on what would have been her sixteenth birthday.