20.5 Years of XP and Agile (2020)(henrikwarne.com)

49 points by ingve 2 years ago | 78 comments

Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI(batsov.com)

169 points by psibi 7 months ago | 114 comments

Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold(jsnover.com)

748 points by naves 6 months ago | 529 comments

Jeffrey Snover's blog post arguing Microsoft has lacked a coherent Windows GUI development strategy for decades since the Petzold-era Win32 programming.

The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs(sean.heelan.io)

248 points by long 9 months ago | 156 comments

I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack(stevehanov.ca)

792 points by tradertef 6 months ago | 453 comments

Steve Hanov's blog post describing how he runs several $10K MRR bootstrapped software companies on a $20/month tech stack without funding.

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?(lemire.me)

466 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 190 comments

Daniel Lemire blog post examining how AMD Ryzen processors became about 50% faster over two years.

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.

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.

AI is killing B2B SaaS(nmn.gl)

462 points by namanyayg 8 months ago | 688 comments

Blog post by Namanyay Goel arguing that agentic AI is threatening the B2B SaaS business model, based on conversations with SF founders.

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale(axelk.ee)

665 points by speckx 5 months ago | 542 comments

A personal blog post arguing that AI companies train on authors' work without consent or compensation, amounting to plagiarism at scale.

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance(larsfaye.com)

490 points by larsfaye 2 months ago | 479 comments

Blog essay by Lars Faye arguing that reliance on AI coding tools removes the friction needed to develop long-term programming expertise.

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS(martinalderson.com)

343 points by jnord 10 months ago | 343 comments

Martin Alderson blog post arguing that AI coding agents are reducing demand for SaaS products as companies can cheaply build their own software.