"Coding" was never the source of value(twitter.com)

20 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 2 comments

Niklaus Wirth has died(twitter.com)

1796 points by aarroyoc 2 years ago | 329 comments

A post on X by Bertrand Meyer announcing that Niklaus Wirth, pioneer of programming languages and software engineering, died on January 1, 2024.

GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz(twitter.com)

27 points by laxmena 4 months ago | 8 comments

Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill(twitter.com)

23 points by tosh 6 months ago | 8 comments

"I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"(twitter.com)

11 points by lambdaba 1 year ago | 12 comments

Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely(twitter.com)

130 points by asiergoni 3 months ago | 171 comments

Fabrice Bellard: The Ghost in the Code(zbruceli.org)

5 points by ptidhomme 19 days ago | 0 comments

A long-form blog essay profiling Fabrice Bellard, the reclusive programmer behind widely used software like FFmpeg and QEMU.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

I'm addicted to being useful(seangoedecke.com)

519 points by swah 9 months ago | 265 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog essay on loving his software engineering job because he is driven by being useful, drawing on Gogol's The Overcoat.

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation(discuss.python.org)

329 points by ayhanfuat 9 months ago | 151 comments

A Python discussion forum post from PSF staff announcing Anthropic's $1.5 million, two-year donation to the PSF focused on security work.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.