NTP Timelord Dies(i-programmer.info)
28 points by talonx | 3 comments
28 points by talonx | 3 comments
579 points by nalgeon | 181 comments
SQLite forum post by Richard Hipp announcing JSONB, a binary rewrite of SQLite's JSON functions that landed on trunk and can be several times faster.
466 points by ibobev | 190 comments
Daniel Lemire blog post examining how AMD Ryzen processors became about 50% faster over two years.
121 points by mondobe | 120 comments
A personal blog essay in which the author describes feeling sadness and hopelessness about new developments in AI, despite being positioned to benefit from it.
453 points by bx376 | 663 comments
An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.
46 points by alxgsv | 84 comments
Personal blog essay by Uploadcare CTO Alex Gusev reflecting that AI coding agents have removed the engineering challenge that once motivated him.
343 points by saikatsg | 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.
63 points by thegreatpeter | 64 comments
A blog post arguing software engineers should not spend time building personal AI-driven software factories and should instead build actual products.
832 points by robotswantdata | 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.