What Happened to Software Is Happening to Finance and Accounting(doempke.com)

13 points by robk 8 months ago | 5 comments

Wayland breaks your bad software(orowith2os.gitlab.io)

14 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 11 comments

What's gonna happen to software engineers?(yakko.dev)

36 points by yakkomajuri 4 months ago | 50 comments

Cold-blooded software (2023)(dubroy.com)

63 points by dgroshev 9 months ago | 12 comments

Cold-blooded software(dubroy.com)

499 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 198 comments

Patrick Dubroy's blog essay using cold-blooded animals as a metaphor for software that can sit untouched for long periods and still work when revived.

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical(seangoedecke.com)

266 points by zdw 10 months ago | 194 comments

If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?(ptrchm.com)

702 points by pchm 3 months ago | 526 comments

Blog essay arguing that despite hype about AI solving coding and an 'Agentic Era', software quality keeps getting worse.

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.

Cognitive load is what matters(github.com)

1392 points by nromiun 1 year ago | 488 comments

GitHub repository by zakirullin containing an essay arguing that reducing cognitive load is what matters most in software development, with translations.

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.

On the Nature of Time(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

326 points by iamwil 2 years ago | 221 comments

Stephen Wolfram essay arguing that time is best understood computationally, as the progressive application of computational rules by the universe.

Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets(swizec.com)

462 points by serialx 2 years ago | 218 comments

Blog post by Swizec Teller arguing that software engineering salaries come from one of three company budgets, which shapes engineers' daily work and career trajectory.