From Stonemasons to Carpenters(thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)

36 points by azhenley 1 month ago | 4 comments

AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

59 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 71 comments

Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't(normaltech.ai)

220 points by trueduke 4 months ago | 266 comments

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

73 points by birdculture 7 months ago | 43 comments

AI: Accelerated Incompetence(slater.dev)

232 points by stevekrouse 1 year ago | 219 comments

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.

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine(solarshades.club)

432 points by notarobot123 1 year ago | 601 comments

A Substack essay by a teacher about the challenges of teaching when students use AI tools like ChatGPT to complete homework.

Challenge Is Gone(blog.alxgsv.com)

46 points by alxgsv 1 day ago | 84 comments

Personal blog essay by Uploadcare CTO Alex Gusev reflecting that AI coding agents have removed the engineering challenge that once motivated him.

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 is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale(axelk.ee)

665 points by speckx 5 months ago | 542 comments

A personal blog post arguing that AI companies train on authors' work without consent or compensation, amounting to plagiarism at scale.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.