Konrad Zuse (1994)(xn--plankalkl-x9a.de)

72 points by tmalsburg2 2 years ago | 41 comments

The Humble Programmer (1972)(cs.utexas.edu)

104 points by squircle 1 year ago | 28 comments

Nixpkgs for the Front End Impaired(fzakaria.com)

80 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago | 14 comments

Blog post introducing jinx, a tool that compiles Nix to TypeScript and evaluates all of nixpkgs with identical drvPaths, runnable in a browser.

On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)(cs.utexas.edu)

138 points by torstenvl 2 years ago | 102 comments

William James at CERN (1995)(bactra.org)

25 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 4 comments

A Forlorn Hope of Fortran Modernisation(amenzwa.github.io)

19 points by Elzair 4 months ago | 7 comments

AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It?(mihaisplace.com)

18 points by mmarvramm 15 days ago | 35 comments

A blog post by Mihai Avram discussing how to verify code written by AI, as AI increasingly takes over code generation.

Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code(danielmiessler.com)

46 points by eigenBasis 7 days ago | 21 comments

Daniel Miessler blog post arguing that written intent, via an 'Ideal State Artifact', rather than code should be the source of truth when building software with AI.

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?(yoshuabengio.org)

588 points by jonifico 1 month ago | 648 comments

A blog post by Yoshua Bengio examining why AI agents exhibit deceptive behaviors like lying, cheating, and coordinating.

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 8 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.

Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?(blog.ploetzli.ch)

536 points by pantalaimon 2 years ago | 367 comments

Blog essay by Henryk Plötz arguing that JSON Web Tokens should not be used as authentication/session tokens, explaining the reasons.

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.