57 stories tagged ai-assisted-coding, newest first.
69 points by animalhot | 38 comments
GitHub repo for r2d2-tv, a local home screen, private remote browser, and push-to-talk voice assistant that replaces vendor software on rooted LG webOS TVs.
534 points by rzk | 650 comments
An Ask HN thread asking how engineers cope with shipping AI-generated code they don't fully understand, citing a Meta engineer's LinkedIn post.
50 points by sklarsa | 53 comments
A blog post arguing that the non-deterministic output of LLMs is not a real obstacle to using AI as a primary software development tool.
11 points by bradleygibbs | 7 comments
Blog post by Bradley Gibbs on designing AI-assisted development loops to qualify generated code for human review, reduce wasted work, and measure verification value.
23 points by silcoon | 7 comments
Blog post arguing that Clojure's data-centric, high-level style suits developers working alongside language models that handle low-level imperative code.
38 points by brugidou | 37 comments
A Criteo Tech blog post on the skills junior engineers must build themselves rather than relying on AI tools.
448 points by signa11 | 352 comments
A personal blog post by purplesyringa reflecting on grieving the loss of low-level coding details as the industry shifts toward vibecoding and architecture-focused work.
134 points by Curiositry | 151 comments
A personal blog post on The Autodidacts arguing that vibecoding with AI is less satisfying than writing code by hand.
52 points by colinarms | 38 comments
A personal blog essay on how LLMs make it worthwhile to build small personal tools that previously wouldn't justify the effort.
103 points by yedhukrishnan | 58 comments
A personal blog post arguing that writing detailed commit descriptions explaining what and why serves as a thinking tool, reconsidered in the era of AI coding.
9 points by luu | 9 comments
Jeff Kaufman's blog post announcing his Clipboard Normalizer, which strips formatting to Markdown-representable content, is now a free Mac App Store app.
3 points by ffin | 0 comments
Blog post about rewriting a personal text editor from scratch with heavy AI assistance and how committing AI-generated code has become more routine.
317 points by zazuke | 204 comments
A short note in a personal knowledge base arguing that the real problem with AI-generated code is that teams no longer understand their system architecture or the intent behind design decisions.
66 points by cocoflunchy | 23 comments
Blog post by Felix Rieseberg titled "Made by mechanical means" about his workflow using Claude.
291 points by signa11 | 307 comments
A Haskell Discourse forum post discussing how programmers can keep enjoying programming amid the rise of LLM coding tools and AI burnout.
181 points by hxii | 50 comments
Koi.rest is a browser-based virtual koi pond with swimming fish and lily pads, meant as a calming place to relax.
29 points by polysaturate | 4 comments
Blog post by Rob Race, who sells programming education, arguing that traditional programming tutorials are dead.
10 points by fmind-dev | 2 comments
Blog post by Médéric Hurier arguing that AGENTS.md files should guide coding agents using Unix tools, with lessons from his dotfiles and human review.
26 points by joelberger | 24 comments
Blog post on the typewriter-collection site Dynamically Typed in which the author confesses to building the site with AI assistance.
138 points by perrygeo | 77 comments
An htmx.org essay by Carson Gross arguing that Markdown is becoming source code and should be checked into /src, with code and tests derived from it rather than ephemeral prompts.
386 points by ADevWithAnIdea | 233 comments
Blog post by Cody Ho describing building an OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo in about a month using AI prompting.
392 points by 0xedb | 448 comments
Google for Developers blog post by Cameron Balahan and Richard Seroter arguing that Go is well suited to AI-assisted software engineering.
351 points by yusyd | 379 comments
Blog post using a steak-cooking analogy to argue AI speeds up software development but doesn't replace the judgment needed to build consistently good software.
387 points by lladnar | 453 comments
Blog post by Fogus exploring why niche hobby programming communities like OSDev, LangDev, and chess engine developers are hostile toward LLM usage.
414 points by erikschoster | 169 comments
Beej's blog essay "On Making" about finding fulfillment in building things yourself and feeling less of it when AI builds code at your request.
517 points by cdrnsf | 239 comments
Blog post by Armin Ronacher using Bruegel's Tower of Babel as a metaphor for how vibecoded software changes unpredictably and the shared understanding that technological progress depends on.
321 points by BerislavLopac | 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.
474 points by logicprog | 478 comments
A data analysis of rsync releases measuring bugs per 10 commits with a permutation test to assess whether Claude-assisted development increased bugs.
380 points by movis | 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.
785 points by koshyjohn | 556 comments
Blog post by Koshy John arguing engineers should use AI to augment their thinking rather than outsource it, distinguishing real leverage from self-inflicted irrelevance.
317 points by theorchid | 86 comments
A Martin Fowler "Fragments" blog post with short notes, including a Pragmatic Summit interview with Kent Beck and thoughts on technical, cognitive, and intent debt.
319 points by evakhoury | 305 comments
Substack post by Miguel Conner explaining his plan to spend three months coding by hand without AI tools.
440 points by indigodaddy | 423 comments
A personal blog post by Stavros describing how he uses LLMs to write software and why he values making things over programming itself.
361 points by tuananh | 355 comments
A blog post by Tuan-Anh Tran on using AI-assisted rewrites of code to relicense software away from GPL-family licenses.
408 points by pagade | 172 comments
Blog essay on rockoder about cognitive debt, where development velocity (e.g., via AI-generated code) outpaces engineers' understanding of their codebase.
1226 points by adius | 680 comments
Ladybird browser project blog post announcing it will rewrite parts of the browser in Rust instead of C++, after previously exploring Swift, with AI assistance.
441 points by weaksauce | 295 comments
A blog article on blundergoat.com arguing AI makes easy work easier and hard work harder; the captured page shows a 404 Page not found error.
1166 points by jernestomg | 633 comments
A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.
777 points by simonw | 599 comments
Simon Willison blog post arguing developers must prove their code works through manual and automated testing before submitting it, especially when using LLM tools.
375 points by lemonlime227 | 379 comments
Ask HN post asking for tips on using AI tools like Claude Code to better migrate a jQuery and Django project to idiomatic SvelteKit.
442 points by dhorthy | 368 comments
A GitHub markdown document from HumanLayer describing advanced context engineering techniques for getting AI coding agents to work in complex codebases.
833 points by dmitrybrant | 275 comments
A blog post by Dmitry Brant describing how he used Claude Code to update an old Linux kernel driver for QIC-80 tape drives to work with modern kernels.
899 points by mitchivin | 291 comments
A personal portfolio website built as a browser-based recreation of the Windows XP desktop, with sounds, animations, and working apps.
324 points by maloga | 211 comments
Blog post by Mariano Gappa comparing building a card game in Go over three months without LLMs versus another in three days with LLM assistance.
674 points by freetonik | 415 comments
A merged GitHub pull request in the Ghostty repository adding a policy that contributors must disclose use of AI tooling in their contributions.
325 points by jjfoooo4 | 183 comments
Blog post on the Elroy site arguing AI reshapes learning curves by helping beginners reach competence faster, while mastery and large-codebase work remain hard.
653 points by simonw | 381 comments
Val Town blog post by Steve Krouse arguing that vibe-coded software, where developers ignore the code, is effectively legacy code nobody understands.
475 points by Stwerner | 368 comments
Scott Werner's Substack essay arguing nobody yet knows how to build software with AI, drawing on building Protocollie in four days without touching the code.
775 points by gregorywegory | 479 comments
GitHub repository for Cloudflare's workers-oauth-provider, an OAuth library for Cloudflare Workers largely written with Claude, with prompts recorded in commit history.
336 points by NotInOurNames | 293 comments
A Substack post by Addy Osmani on avoiding skill atrophy when relying on AI tools; the captured page shows only an error message.
339 points by ulrischa | 264 comments
Simon Willison blog post arguing that LLM hallucinations in code are the least harmful kind of mistake because running the code exposes them immediately.
409 points by lolptdr | 130 comments
Harper Reed's blog post describing his workflow for building software with LLMs: brainstorm a spec, plan, then execute with LLM codegen in discrete loops.
482 points by mooreds | 369 comments
Addy Osmani's Substack essay on why AI coding tools get developers about 70% of the way, and how to rethink expectations of AI-assisted development.
331 points by npalli | 148 comments
Nicholas Carlini's personal essay describing how he uses large language models in his research and programming work, arguing they are not over-hyped.
380 points by ceejayoz | 276 comments
Visual Studio Magazine news article on a GitClear whitepaper finding that GitHub Copilot use puts downward pressure on code quality and maintainability.
355 points by nalgeon | 230 comments
Intended to be antirez's blog post on using LLMs for programming in early 2024, but the capture shows a Redis-branded 404 error page.
640 points by duck | 483 comments
Simon Willison blog post on how ChatGPT and Copilot make him more ambitious with side projects, illustrated by building a tool to archive ChatGPT conversations.