Cargo Airships Are Happening(elidourado.com)

155 points by elidourado 2 years ago | 196 comments

The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon(seangoedecke.com)

122 points by jxmorris12 5 months ago | 103 comments

America's supply chains are a disaster waiting to happen(noahpinion.blog)

8 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 1 comments

Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting(rachelbythebay.com)

156 points by ingve 2 years ago | 137 comments

How I ship projects at big tech companies(seangoedecke.com)

1297 points by gfysfm 2 years ago | 360 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog post on how he leads and ships projects at big tech companies, and the common mistakes engineers make when shipping.

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence(gultsch.de)

249 points by inputmice 2 months ago | 149 comments

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.

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.

On Being an Engineer in 2026(twitter.com)

149 points by talboren 4 days ago | 240 comments

An X article by a startup CTO arguing that engineers still have leverage over AI coding agents because of experience-based intuition and tacit knowledge.

AI is dramatically accelerating AI research(planned-obsolescence.org)

333 points by yurivish 7 days ago | 300 comments

Ajeya Cotra's Substack post arguing a METR report shows AI is already roughly doubling AI capabilities progress at Anthropic, implying rapid compounding toward superintelligence.

The AI coding trap(chrisloy.dev)

618 points by chrisloy 1 year ago | 377 comments

Blog post by Chris Loy arguing that AI coding tools speed up typing code but risk neglecting the problem-solving that is the real work of software development.

Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation(epoch.ai)

85 points by merksittich 1 month ago | 64 comments

Epoch AI report by David Owen presenting InnovationEval, finding early evidence that AI models cannot yet automate AI R&D or match human algorithmic innovation.