90 stories tagged ai-coding, newest first.
40 points by eigenBasis | 14 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.
182 points by hmokiguess | 145 comments
GitHub repository for JetBrains Thinkrail, an open-source lightweight IDE for vibe coding with the pi agent that customises itself to the user's workflow.
68 points by tom2026hn | 52 comments
A Substack essay arguing that cheap AI coding tools from OpenAI and Anthropic undermine the software companies that were meant to be their paying customers.
67 points by scrambled | 27 comments
An X post by Robbie Tilton showing a video of his TV home screen redesigned as a Game Boy Color-style Pokemon town, built with Claude Opus 5.5.
39 points by stanislavb | 12 comments
Hacker News discussion post noting SaaSHub's product graveyard data shows median software product lifespan dropping from about 4 years to 1.5 years in 2026.
44 points by sanketsaurav | 39 comments
Blog essay arguing that AI coding tools like Claude Code have ended the rationing of engineering effort, and software makers haven't yet adapted.
63 points by thegreatpeter | 64 comments
A blog post arguing software engineers should not spend time building personal AI-driven software factories and should instead build actual products.
9 points by ghuntley | 5 comments
Geoffrey Huntley blog post proposing an open source model where projects reject pull requests but invite others to fork and remix the code.
64 points by popcar2 | 54 comments
A personal blog post arguing that AI tools are enabling mass decompilation of video games, which the author sees as both exciting and worrying.
50 points by fagnerbrack | 38 comments
A blog post asking whether web frameworks still matter, and whether new ones should be built, in an era of AI-assisted and agentic programming where React dominates.
26 points by ingve | 36 comments
Blog post by Nate Meyvis offering conjectural answers to why AI coding hasn't visibly produced more new, good software.
105 points by riffraff | 118 comments
Shokunin Studio blog post examining attempts by AI enthusiasts to create vibe-coded clones of popular apps, especially Adobe Photoshop.
177 points by ghuntley | 89 comments
Geoffrey Huntley blog post recounting a conversation with Justin Cormack about why unikernels are becoming practical again and their security benefits.
10 points by edmorley | 4 comments
A YouTube music video titled "LGTM (Looks Good to Me)" about AI coding agents and code review, labeled as AI-generated and credited to Claude Opus 5.5.
23 points by speckx | 29 comments
Tedium article examining ArtCraft's vibe-coded remakes of creative apps and what they suggest about Adobe and Creative Cloud.
728 points by Michelangelo11 | 285 comments
An essay by htmx creator Carson Gross answering whether people should still become computer programmers given AI, with his response "Yes, and...".
30 points by signa11 | 32 comments
A blog post on the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers blog listing reasons to dislike AI-assisted coding.
51 points by samtheDamned | 65 comments
Blog post on andreklein.net about vibecoding a Photoshop-like app and dealing with time and pressure; captured page shows a Cloudflare verification screen.
15 points by cliffclimber | 0 comments
Chain of Thought newsletter post featuring npm co-founder Laurie Voss on how AI-cheapened coding shifts value from software engineering to product engineering and context.
211 points by ThibWeb | 165 comments
Wagtail blog post by Thibaud Colas recounting a month of using only the open GLM 5.3 Flash model for coding, consuming 2B tokens.
223 points by b-man | 47 comments
Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post on the limits of what TLA+ can verify, pushing back on claims that TLA+ with AI models will make AI-written code reliable.
458 points by firstSpeaker | 459 comments
Alex Ewerlöf's opinion essay arguing that AI and LLM coding tools have not solved software coding, drawing on his experience building AI systems.
18 points by JumpCrisscross | 8 comments
A personal blog post by Jake Goldsborough titled "Goodbye to the Hard Parts That Never Mattered," reflecting on software development work.
7 points by altras | 0 comments
Camplight blog post explaining what an AI software factory is and sharing lessons learned from three client deployments.
41 points by fagnerbrack | 29 comments
A Manager.dev newsletter post by Anton Zaides recounting a hackathon built with Lovable to explain to business people why building software is still hard.
311 points by dimonomid | 438 comments
Blog post by Alexandru Nedelcu arguing that AI lacks wisdom and that relying on it for coding, skipping code reviews and reading code, erodes developers' own judgment.
300 points by julian_digital | 367 comments
A Linear engineering blog post explaining how AI-assisted coding increased CI load and how the team reworked its CI pipeline to keep up.
342 points by manojbajaj95 | 245 comments
Armin Ronacher blog post arguing that AI engineering resembles Neijuan (involution), demanding ever more effort without improving output.
670 points by bvaldivielso | 435 comments
Meta developer product page for Muse Spark 1.3, an AI model trained for agentic workflows and optimized for coding performance and reliable tool calling.
386 points by gpi | 93 comments
Engineering Leadership newsletter post by Gregor Ojstersek arguing that good team culture boosts productivity more than AI, which helps only when culture is right.
490 points by larsfaye | 479 comments
Blog essay by Lars Faye arguing that reliance on AI coding tools removes the friction needed to develop long-term programming expertise.
877 points by florianherrengt | 785 comments
Blog post arguing that AI-generated code floods senior engineers with huge PRs and is hollowing out the middle tier of software engineering roles.
761 points by senko | 446 comments
Blog post by Senko Rašić arguing that the claim "code was never the hard part" amid LLM coding hype is an insult to programmers.
1023 points by ai2027 | 544 comments
Qwen team blog post announcing Qwen3.8-Max, a new large language model aimed at coding and collaborative work tasks.
571 points by delichon | 389 comments
Andrej Karpathy's X post describing Claude Opus 5 writing 5,500 lines of three.js code over two hours to procedurally render the opening of Lord of the Rings.
438 points by tomlockwood | 333 comments
A developer blog post examining the progress and claims around Bun's AI-assisted rewrite from Zig to Rust, framed as a showcase for Anthropic's AI.
702 points by pchm | 526 comments
Blog essay arguing that despite hype about AI solving coding and an 'Agentic Era', software quality keeps getting worse.
381 points by rexledesma | 70 comments
Poolside blog post announcing Laguna S 2.1, a new AI model from the company.
1264 points by crowdhailer | 634 comments
Ray Myers blog post contrasting the Zig creator's stance on AI with Anthropic's campaign to replace software engineering.
417 points by RyeCombinator | 288 comments
A blog post by David Curlewis arguing that AI-era productivity metrics are repackaging lines of code as a measure of developer output.
407 points by BrunoBernardino | 303 comments
A blog post by Jesse Skinner about cleaning up messy code left behind by AI-assisted 'rockstar' developers.
368 points by aryamaan | 589 comments
An Ask HN thread asking users what personal tools they have built since AI coding assistants became available, with early replies describing their projects.
1029 points by poisonfountain | 967 comments
A personal blog post by a software engineer with 10 years of experience reflecting on how LLMs are eroding their career and their uncertainty about what to do.
387 points by Ekami | 645 comments
An Ask HN post asking why Hacker News commenters are skeptical of AI coding tools, arguing that shipping speed matters more than code elegance.
646 points by andrehacker | 1029 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking users to describe the moment they realized generative AI models were more capable than they had assumed.
774 points by aaronbrethorst | 484 comments
Blog post arguing that agentic AI shifts software's binding constraint from building code to judging correctness, making domain expertise the real moat.
388 points by xyzal | 318 comments
Blog post by Mauro Bieg on the Mastro site comparing AI's effect on programming jobs to frontend development's earlier deskilling and "lost decade."
1102 points by signa11 | 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.
826 points by indigodaddy | 877 comments
A Medium essay by Noah Mitchem questioning whether Python remains the best language choice when AI tools write most of the code.
890 points by dropbox_miner | 558 comments
A developer's devlog post explaining why they are returning to writing code by hand after experimenting with fully AI-driven vibe-coding of a project.
640 points by jeromechoo | 308 comments
A blog essay by Steven Langbroek titled "Programming Still Sucks," an 8-minute read on programming, leadership, and AI.
332 points by kmdupree | 172 comments
OpenAI research post explaining that SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and no longer measures frontier coding ability, recommending SWE-bench Pro instead.
1039 points by milkglass | 713 comments
Substack essay comparing the West's loss of defense manufacturing capacity to declining junior software engineer hiring and the erosion of coding skills.
613 points by meetpateltech | 322 comments
Kimi blog post announcing Kimi K2.6, an open-source large language model focused on improved coding capabilities.
541 points by drob518 | 454 comments
Bram Cohen blog post arguing that the leaked Claude source code's poor quality reflects vibe coding dogfooding taken to cult-like extremes.
330 points by tanelpoder | 305 comments
Answer.AI blog post examining PyPI package creation and update data to look for evidence that AI coding tools have increased software output.
566 points by stevekrouse | 419 comments
Steve Krouse blog post arguing that code will not be replaced by AI-written specs, since a sufficiently detailed spec is itself code.
452 points by merksittich | 678 comments
Financial Times article reporting that Elon Musk has pushed out more xAI co-founders as the company's AI coding effort struggles.
357 points by itunpredictable | 354 comments
A Technically newsletter essay comparing vibe coding with the maker movement, asking whether vibe-coded apps are throwaway projects or lasting value.
397 points by ghostwriternr | 151 comments
Cloudflare blog post by Steve Faulkner describing how the team used AI to rebuild Next.js as a new framework, vinext, in one week.
387 points by varankinv | 311 comments
Blog post describing how the author used AI coding tools to build a FreeBSD Wi-Fi driver for the Broadcom BCM4350 chip in a 2016 MacBook Pro.
870 points by meetpateltech | 373 comments
OpenAI announcement introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, an ultra-fast model for real-time coding in Codex.
705 points by jamesrandall | 556 comments
Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.
634 points by ColinWright | 737 comments
Nolan Lawson's blog post lamenting how AI coding tools are reducing programmers to code reviewers and mourning the loss of the programming craft.
864 points by bigwheels | 773 comments
An X post by Andrej Karpathy sharing notes from several weeks of coding with Anthropic's Claude.
747 points by mobitar | 544 comments
A Substack essay by Mo explaining why, after two years of relying on AI-assisted vibecoding, the author returned to writing code by hand.
501 points by robteix | 345 comments
Blog post by Roberto Selbach about replacing paid app subscriptions like Wispr Flow by vibecoding his own tools, such as a dictation app called Jabber.
544 points by glimshe | 428 comments
Blog post by Stephan Schwab on why businesses have tried to replace software developers every decade since 1969, from COBOL to AI.
1090 points by todsacerdoti | 1334 comments
Blog post by antirez arguing that, despite his reservations, LLMs are going to change programming forever and people shouldn't dismiss AI out of hand.
444 points by Mojah | 544 comments
Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.
376 points by cdrnsf | 471 comments
A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.
474 points by rishabhaiover | 511 comments
An X (Twitter) post by Andrej Karpathy reflecting on feeling behind as a programmer amid rapid AI-driven changes; the post content did not load.
782 points by evankhoury | 394 comments
Martin Kleppmann blog post predicting that AI will bring formal verification with proof assistants like Rocq, Isabelle and Lean into mainstream software engineering.
343 points by jnord | 343 comments
Martin Alderson blog post arguing that AI coding agents are reducing demand for SaaS products as companies can cheaply build their own software.
526 points by dbalatero | 319 comments
A Substack essay by Mike Judge arguing that claims of massive AI coding productivity gains aren't supported by evidence such as a surge in new software releases.
321 points by srid | 196 comments
A Zed blog post by Conrad Irwin arguing that LLMs cannot really build software, drawing on his experience of what effective software engineers do.
642 points by indigodaddy | 219 comments
A blog post describing how the author codes with AI tools cheaply or for free, using browser tabs with free tiers of models like OpenAI Playground.
320 points by meetpateltech | 218 comments
Google Keyword blog post announcing that Jules, its asynchronous AI coding agent powered by Gemini 2.5, is out of beta and publicly available.
423 points by d3vr | 165 comments
Cerebras blog post announcing Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month) and Code Max ($200/month) plans offering fast Qwen3-Coder inference at up to 2,000 tokens per second.
568 points by rfurmani | 388 comments
X post by Windsurf's employee #2 saying he joined Cognition and received only 1% of his shares' value after the Google DeepMind deal.
979 points by rcchen | 628 comments
The Verge reports OpenAI's planned acquisition of AI coding startup Windsurf fell through, with Windsurf's CEO and key researchers joining Google.
526 points by longwave | 604 comments
Blog post by antirez arguing human programmers still outperform LLMs, illustrated by debugging a Redis Vector Sets corruption issue.
396 points by hoakiet98 | 79 comments
GitHub repository for Onlook, an open-source visual editor for building and styling React apps with AI on an infinite canvas, now rewritten to run in the browser.
666 points by meetpateltech | 637 comments
Google for Developers blog post announcing an updated Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview model with improved coding performance, by Logan Kilpatrick.
515 points by rahimnathwani | 209 comments
Edward Yang's site cataloging blindspots and failure patterns he has observed in LLMs when using them for AI-assisted coding.
672 points by frag | 773 comments
A Substack essay arguing that replacing programmers with AI is a mistake; the captured page shows a Substack error message instead of the article.
926 points by k__ | 689 comments
Simon Willison blog post on a llama.cpp PR doubling WASM speed via SIMD, mostly written by DeepSeek R1, plus his own results using R1 for code.
342 points by neural_thing | 322 comments
Cognition's blog post introducing Devin, which the company bills as the first AI software engineer, with an embedded intro video featuring CEO Scott Wu.
618 points by jsomers | 930 comments
A New Yorker personal essay by James Somers reflecting on how AI tools are changing programming and whether coding as a craft is ending.