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

73 points by birdculture 7 months ago | 43 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.

Reverse-engineering is cheap now(simonwillison.net)

23 points by edward 3 months ago | 13 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI(danielvaughn.dev)

334 points by danielvaughn 2 months ago | 178 comments

Blog post introducing Huzzah, an experimental editor where you write pseudocode that is synced to real source code by AI on save, with the pseudocode kept as intent.

Ask HN: By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer?

15 points by nomilk 10 months ago | 28 comments

Ask HN: Teams using AI – how do you prevent it from breaking your codebase?

34 points by namanyayg 1 year ago | 39 comments

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.

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.

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up(linear.app)

300 points by julian_digital 1 month ago | 367 comments

A Linear engineering blog post explaining how AI-assisted coding increased CI load and how the team reworked its CI pipeline to keep up.

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.

What AI-Native Looks Like(fagnerbrack.com)

14 points by fagnerbrack 1 month ago | 7 comments

A blog post by Fagner Brack on Medium describing what an AI-native approach to software development with stable infrastructure looks like.

AI makes tech debt more expensive(gauge.sh)

436 points by 0x63_Problems 1 year ago | 213 comments

A Gauge blog article arguing that AI coding tools make technical debt more costly rather than less relevant.