Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism(worksinprogress.news)

11 points by bensouthwood 2 months ago | 10 comments

What on Earth Is Dekton?(worksinprogress.news)

141 points by wawayanda 10 days ago | 51 comments

A Works in Progress feature by Charles C Mann exploring porcelain and the engineered stone material Dekton, prompted by a pricey kitchen stove.

Making architecture easy(worksinprogress.co)

93 points by dash2 3 years ago | 26 comments

The beauty of concrete(worksinprogress.co)

146 points by jger15 2 years ago | 78 comments

The secrets of the Shinkansen(worksinprogress.news)

127 points by WillDaSilva 6 months ago | 116 comments

More Cows, More Wives(worksinprogress.news)

74 points by oxw 8 months ago | 47 comments

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2(radical-elements.com)

150 points by lexx 23 days ago | 143 comments

Blog post by Alex Lingris, the second part of an essay arguing city-building games like Cities: Skylines 2 lack soul.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.