15 stories tagged code-quality, newest first.
67 points by lasu | 13 comments
Parsimony is an open-source benchmark and leaderboard measuring how much net code AI models add when solving tasks, counting syntax-level coding units from published benchmark patches.
407 points by BrunoBernardino | 303 comments
A blog post by Jesse Skinner about cleaning up messy code left behind by AI-assisted 'rockstar' developers.
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.
603 points by Gricha | 371 comments
Blog post by Greg Pstrucha describing an experiment in which Claude repeatedly reworked an app's codebase to make it the "highest quality", and what happened.
348 points by gfysfm | 236 comments
Sean Goedecke blog post explaining why competent engineers at big tech companies produce sloppy code, citing short tenures and engineers working outside their expertise.
380 points by todsacerdoti | 218 comments
A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.
375 points by homarp | 334 comments
A 2023 seeinglogic blog post examining visual patterns in source code that make it harder to read and understand.
404 points by recursivedoubts | 411 comments
GitHub README transcribing a series of discussions between Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin and John Ousterhout comparing Clean Code with A Philosophy of Software Design.
436 points by 0x63_Problems | 213 comments
A Gauge blog article arguing that AI coding tools make technical debt more costly rather than less relevant.
1145 points by thunderbong | 565 comments
Blog post arguing that greppability, how easily code can be found with text search, is an underrated code quality metric.
418 points by BitWiseVibe | 275 comments
A Medium post by Tate Smith about frustration with fixing customers' AI-generated code, partially covered by a Medium sign-up modal.
465 points by pcatach | 390 comments
Ask HN discussion thread where users describe the best codebases they have worked on and what made them good.
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.
338 points by todsacerdoti | 300 comments
Blog post by Jesse Duffield arguing that developers' lack of motivation ("can't be fucked") is an underrated cause of technical debt.
323 points by dfcowell | 185 comments
A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.