AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier(robenglander.com)

73 points by birdculture 7 months ago | 43 comments

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical(seangoedecke.com)

266 points by zdw 10 months ago | 194 comments

To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't(seangoedecke.com)

36 points by gfysfm 1 year ago | 40 comments

Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering(seangoedecke.com)

23 points by dboon 7 months ago | 14 comments

Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome(colton.dev)

864 points by coltonv 1 year ago | 601 comments

Blog post by Colton Voege arguing AI is not making engineers 10x more productive and offering advice for engineers feeling imposter syndrome over such claims.

Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills(qu8n.com)

163 points by quanwinn 9 months ago | 202 comments

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.

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.

Personal software factories are a waste of time(peterp.me)

63 points by thegreatpeter 7 days ago | 64 comments

A blog post arguing software engineers should not spend time building personal AI-driven software factories and should instead build actual products.

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing(robert-glaser.de)

355 points by youngbrioche 5 months ago | 234 comments

Robert Glaser's blog essay on why companies fail to turn individual AI tool use into organizational learning and team capabilities.

The Eternal Sloptember(geohot.github.io)

347 points by razin 5 months ago | 280 comments

A blog post by George Hotz arguing that adopting AI coding agents in software development is a costly mistake because their output is subtly broken.

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.