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

73 points by birdculture 7 months ago | 43 comments

The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive

17 points by acmerfight 7 months ago | 17 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.

There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets(blog.jxmo.io)

448 points by bilsbie 1 year ago | 240 comments

Jack Morris essay arguing that major AI breakthroughs, including LLMs, came from new datasets rather than new ideas or methods.

I'm becoming AI-blind(cymerys.com)

462 points by rcymerys 2 months ago | 468 comments

Personal blog post by Rafal Cymerys describing how he struggles to focus on documents at work, feeling increasingly 'blind' to AI-generated text.

AI Efficiency? Give Me a Break(luolink.substack.com)

6 points by luolink 1 year ago | 6 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.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

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.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

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.

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.