Maladaptive Frugality(herbertlui.net)

195 points by herbertl 6 months ago | 222 comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours(blog.terrygodier.com)

568 points by satvikpendem 2 months ago | 255 comments

Terry Godier's blog post apologizing for problems with Dark Hours, a website he launched to show what can be seen in the night sky.

Code is cheap now, but software isn't(chrisgregori.dev)

83 points by fs_software 9 months ago | 33 comments

Let's talk about LLMs(b-list.org)

161 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 142 comments

Zed AI(zed.dev)

297 points by dahjelle 2 years ago | 202 comments

Zig builds are getting faster(mitchellh.com)

409 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 191 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post describing how Zig 0.15.1 has improved build times, using the Ghostty project's upgrade as an example.

Doing Rails Wrong(bananacurvingmachine.com)

324 points by treesenthusiast 1 year ago | 206 comments

A blog post written as a satirical dialogue about overcomplicating Rails 8 apps with Vite, Node, and npm instead of Rails' built-in tooling.

You can just say it(noperator.dev)

331 points by antirez 5 months ago | 172 comments

Personal blog essay by Caleb Gross arguing against valuing humans only for output quality that AI may eventually match, and for stating human value directly.

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance(larsfaye.com)

490 points by larsfaye 2 months ago | 479 comments

Blog essay by Lars Faye arguing that reliance on AI coding tools removes the friction needed to develop long-term programming expertise.

AI has no intent and no motivation(i-programmer.info)

37 points by aquastorm 1 month ago | 39 comments

An I Programmer opinion piece by Mike James arguing that AI has no intent or motivation, so fears of AI going rogue are misrepresentations.

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.

Using AI to write better code more slowly(nolanlawson.com)

1102 points by signa11 5 months ago | 407 comments

Blog post by Nolan Lawson arguing that LLMs can be used to write higher-quality code more slowly, such as finding bugs, rather than producing low-quality code fast.