The tools I love are made by awful people(ankursethi.com)

23 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 17 comments

ZX Spectrum Raytracer(gabrielgambetta.com)

193 points by ggambetta 2 years ago | 57 comments

Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z(luke8086.dev)

146 points by jaypatelani 1 year ago | 40 comments

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore(danluu.com)

592 points by Jach 2 months ago | 442 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing that LLM coding agents make specialized performance optimization cheap, illustrated with optimizing a regex engine for specific workloads.

AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects(simonwillison.net)

640 points by duck 3 years ago | 483 comments

Simon Willison blog post on how ChatGPT and Copilot make him more ambitious with side projects, illustrated by building a tool to archive ChatGPT conversations.

FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me(vladimir.varank.in)

387 points by varankinv 8 months ago | 311 comments

Blog post describing how the author used AI coding tools to build a FreeBSD Wi-Fi driver for the Broadcom BCM4350 chip in a 2016 MacBook Pro.