The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models(thetypicalset.com)

140 points by remilouf 6 months ago | 43 comments

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

83 points by fs_software 9 months ago | 33 comments

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

14 points by listless 2 months ago | 5 comments

Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck(ordep.dev)

626 points by phire 1 year ago | 309 comments

Blog post arguing that writing code was never the bottleneck in software engineering; reviews, knowledge transfer, testing, and coordination are.

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.

Eight Years of GraphQL(magiroux.com)

74 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 58 comments

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up(linear.app)

300 points by julian_digital 1 month ago | 367 comments

A Linear engineering blog post explaining how AI-assisted coding increased CI load and how the team reworked its CI pipeline to keep up.

Agents.md speaks Unix, and you should too(fmind.dev)

10 points by fmind-dev 1 month ago | 2 comments

Blog post by Médéric Hurier arguing that AGENTS.md files should guide coding agents using Unix tools, with lessons from his dotfiles and human review.

Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster(minimaxir.com)

85 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 46 comments

Max Woolf blog post on using AI coding agents to iteratively optimize Rust code until it outperforms state-of-the-art libraries.

Domain expertise has always been the real moat(brethorsting.com)

774 points by aaronbrethorst 4 months ago | 484 comments

Blog post arguing that agentic AI shifts software's binding constraint from building code to judging correctness, making domain expertise the real moat.

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.

Web development is fun again(ma.ttias.be)

444 points by Mojah 9 months ago | 544 comments

Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.