Welding and the automation frontier(construction-physics.com)

105 points by shaldengeki 2 years ago | 52 comments

How Washington DC Got Its Metro(construction-physics.com)

50 points by vwoolf 3 years ago | 30 comments

The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines(construction-physics.com)

138 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 94 comments

Where has Construction Automation been successful?(construction-physics.com)

32 points by ltononro 1 month ago | 30 comments

An engineering history of the Manhattan Project(construction-physics.com)

127 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 65 comments

How the gas turbine conquered the electric power industry(construction-physics.com)

73 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 43 comments

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.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less(charitydotwtf.substack.com)

321 points by BerislavLopac 4 months ago | 157 comments

Charity Majors' Substack essay arguing that AI-assisted development requires more engineering discipline, comparing it to the shift from pet servers to immutable infrastructure.

A Reddit bot drove me insane(posthuman.blog)

486 points by erhmmmm 1 year ago | 239 comments

A blog post recounting the author's encounter with a human-seeming Reddit post that turned out to be a bot, reflecting on AI slop online.

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 threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing(ergosphere.blog)

814 points by zaikunzhang 6 months ago | 550 comments

Blog essay arguing that the risk of AI in science is researchers, especially PhD students, drifting into not understanding their own work.

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.