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

23 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 17 comments

Choosing a Language Based on Its Syntax?(gingerbill.org)

28 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 36 comments

Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong(gingerbill.org)

136 points by adamrezich 2 months ago | 63 comments

If Odin Had Macros(gingerbill.org)

27 points by mattwilsonn888 1 year ago | 16 comments

Better Models: Worse Tools(lucumr.pocoo.org)

193 points by leemoore 3 months ago | 66 comments

You can choose tools that make you happy(borretti.me)

201 points by zdw 1 year ago | 70 comments

AI Is Not a Tool(write.as)

4 points by jslakro 3 days ago | 0 comments

A short write.as essay arguing that AI is not merely a tool because it is autonomous, makes decisions, and can change itself, unlike previous technologies.

'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey(linkedin.com)

217 points by svieira 14 days ago | 108 comments

An essay by Rich Hickey, originally on LinkedIn and mirrored in a GitHub Gist, arguing that 'AI' is not a tool.

Don't fire your illustrator(sambleckley.com)

346 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 269 comments

Essay by Sam Bleckley, a fine artist and software engineer, on understanding and art-directing AI image generators and why illustrators remain valuable.

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.

Coding is not solved(blog.alexewerlof.com)

458 points by firstSpeaker 28 days ago | 459 comments

Alex Ewerlöf's opinion essay arguing that AI and LLM coding tools have not solved software coding, drawing on his experience building AI systems.

Neural networks are clean(already-clean.goodfire.com)

768 points by themgt 11 days ago | 300 comments

An informal research essay by Nick Cammarata at Goodfire arguing polysemanticity stems from fixable issues, not superposition, making neurons interpretable at scale.