Now might be the best time to learn software development(substack.com)

302 points by nathanfig 1 year ago | 297 comments

Design Is an Island – By Kent Beck(tidyfirst.substack.com)

25 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 1 comments

The cost YAGNI was never about(newsletter.kentbeck.com)

97 points by kiyanwang 3 months ago | 71 comments

Composable Tests(newsletter.kentbeck.com)

50 points by vinipolicena 2 months ago | 37 comments

Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks(newsletter.kentbeck.com)

165 points by rrvsh 4 months ago | 83 comments

The Next Abstraction(substack.com)

28 points by mbs348 1 year ago | 11 comments

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career(seangoedecke.com)

380 points by movis 5 months ago | 624 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog post arguing that because AI use reduces learning on the job, software engineering may no longer be a lifelong career.

Thinking will become a hobby(spinellis.gr)

277 points by pranitha_m 13 days ago | 396 comments

Diomidis Spinellis blog post arguing that AI will take over most cognitive work, leaving human thinking as more of a hobby.

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.

Programming Still Sucks(stvn.sh)

640 points by jeromechoo 5 months ago | 308 comments

A blog essay by Steven Langbroek titled "Programming Still Sucks," an 8-minute read on programming, leadership, and AI.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code(ankursethi.com)

502 points by mpweiher 2 months ago | 413 comments

A personal blog post arguing that developers should manually retype code generated by LLM coding assistants to keep understanding it and avoid cognitive debt.

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit(lesswrong.com)

474 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 375 comments

LessWrong linkpost essay arguing recent AI model improvements feel overstated, based on experience building an AI codebase security-scanning startup.