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Really interesting article I just came across. Automating part of programming isn't new, and it has never removed a phase - the work gets absorbed and moves. It's about the 1950s, but the authors draw the line straight to AI coding today.
The Myth of the Coder – Communications of the ACM
cacm.acm.org
September 7, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Really interesting article I just came across. Automating part of programming isn't new, and it has never removed a phase - the work gets absorbed and moves. It's about the 1950s, but the authors draw the line straight to AI coding today.
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Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate.
It's so good, I had to make a video.
It's so good, I had to make a video.
June 7, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate.
It's so good, I had to make a video.
It's so good, I had to make a video.
Great episode of the Book Overflow podcast covering The Mythical Man Month. Still a timeless read, even in the age of LLMs. podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/h...
Has AI changed everything about software development? - The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
Podcast Episode · Book Overflow · 18 May · 1hr 24min
podcasts.apple.com
May 19, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Great episode of the Book Overflow podcast covering The Mythical Man Month. Still a timeless read, even in the age of LLMs. podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/h...
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NEW POST
Will there be source code in the future? To wrestle with this, we have to understand what code is. Unmesh Joshi sees code as having two distinct but intertwined purposes: instructions to a machine and a conceptual model of the problem domain.
martinfowler.com/articles/wha...
Will there be source code in the future? To wrestle with this, we have to understand what code is. Unmesh Joshi sees code as having two distinct but intertwined purposes: instructions to a machine and a conceptual model of the problem domain.
martinfowler.com/articles/wha...
What Is Code?
What is code actually for in the era of LLMs.
martinfowler.com
May 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
NEW POST
Will there be source code in the future? To wrestle with this, we have to understand what code is. Unmesh Joshi sees code as having two distinct but intertwined purposes: instructions to a machine and a conceptual model of the problem domain.
martinfowler.com/articles/wha...
Will there be source code in the future? To wrestle with this, we have to understand what code is. Unmesh Joshi sees code as having two distinct but intertwined purposes: instructions to a machine and a conceptual model of the problem domain.
martinfowler.com/articles/wha...
This episode of The Daily from NYT explains to a non-tech audience how AI is reshaping software development. Really well explained, and a refreshing perspective. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/p...
The Workers Letting A.I. Do Their Jobs
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2026 at 9:53 PM
This episode of The Daily from NYT explains to a non-tech audience how AI is reshaping software development. Really well explained, and a refreshing perspective. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/p...
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The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive.
In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!
In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!
April 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive.
In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!
In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!
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Some thoughts about AI-assisted coding and how it affects my brain. I'm more productive and more exhausted at the same time.
marvinh.dev/blog/ddosing...
marvinh.dev/blog/ddosing...
DDoS'ing the human brain
AI made us mass produce code at a scale we never could before. More code, more problems, same brain. Somehow I'm more productive and more exhausted at the same time.
marvinh.dev
April 3, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Some thoughts about AI-assisted coding and how it affects my brain. I'm more productive and more exhausted at the same time.
marvinh.dev/blog/ddosing...
marvinh.dev/blog/ddosing...
Interesting article on a hidden cost of AI development: comprehension debt. “no one on the team could explain why design decisions had been made or how different parts of the system were supposed to work together. The theory of the system had evaporated.” addyosmani.com/blog/compreh...
Comprehension Debt - the hidden cost of AI generated code.
addyosmani.com
March 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Interesting article on a hidden cost of AI development: comprehension debt. “no one on the team could explain why design decisions had been made or how different parts of the system were supposed to work together. The theory of the system had evaporated.” addyosmani.com/blog/compreh...
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This is a fantastic lecture given recently at the Royal Society on how LLMs work and their fundamental flaws. Well worth watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyyL...
This is not the AI we were promised | The Royal Society
YouTube video by The Royal Society
www.youtube.com
March 1, 2026 at 7:57 AM
This is a fantastic lecture given recently at the Royal Society on how LLMs work and their fundamental flaws. Well worth watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyyL...
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Gift link (hope it works) for the @ftrain.bsky.social NY Times piece on the impact of post-November-2025 coding agents (like Claude Code) on the cost of developing software - it's very worth a read www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Gift link (hope it works) for the @ftrain.bsky.social NY Times piece on the impact of post-November-2025 coding agents (like Claude Code) on the cost of developing software - it's very worth a read www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Highly recommend this podcast with @booch.com. A tour of the history of software engineering, similar to some of my recent articles and posts. Plus, at least he has a positive outlook for the profession
What if we're actually in the middle of the third golden age of software engineering? This is what Grady Booch (@booch.com) sees happening. If you are anxious about the state of the industry, you want to watch/listen to Grady's longer-term perspective:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMA...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMA...
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February 8, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Highly recommend this podcast with @booch.com. A tour of the history of software engineering, similar to some of my recent articles and posts. Plus, at least he has a positive outlook for the profession
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A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:47 PM
A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
This is a great talk from an Engineer at Netflix. Easy is not the same as simple. Taking the easy path and relying on AI to generate code without understanding it can result in a codebase full of accidental complexity that is difficult to understand and reason about.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIoo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIoo...
"I shipped code I don't understand and I bet you have too" – Jake Nations, Netflix
YouTube video by AI Engineer
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:13 AM
This is a great talk from an Engineer at Netflix. Easy is not the same as simple. Taking the easy path and relying on AI to generate code without understanding it can result in a codebase full of accidental complexity that is difficult to understand and reason about.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIoo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIoo...
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I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
simonwillison.net
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
There should be a word for that feeling of disappointment after using an LLM to solve a tricky problem, and it sounding completely confident… only to find out it really has no clue.
October 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
There should be a word for that feeling of disappointment after using an LLM to solve a tricky problem, and it sounding completely confident… only to find out it really has no clue.
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We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299
Home | Commodore
www.commodore.net
July 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299
A couple of years ago I gave a talk at the Christchurch Ruby meetup on the fundamentals of computer science. I’ve finally turned that talk into a blog post. Better late than never! Read it here: timross.info/fundamentals... Any feedback is welcome 😊
The Fundamentals of Computer Science
Introduction The year was 1998. Google had just been founded, offering a significantly better search experience. Microsoft had become the biggest company in the world, and the web was rapidly becoming a part of everyday life. It was also my first yea...
timross.info
July 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A couple of years ago I gave a talk at the Christchurch Ruby meetup on the fundamentals of computer science. I’ve finally turned that talk into a blog post. Better late than never! Read it here: timross.info/fundamentals... Any feedback is welcome 😊
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We're buying *Commodore* and bringing it back! (you KNOW I'm gonna get involved somehow!) Check out the announce! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-A...
Wait… Who’s the New CEO of Commodore?! • Let's Buy Commodore Part 2
YouTube video by Retro Recipes x Commodore
www.youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
We're buying *Commodore* and bringing it back! (you KNOW I'm gonna get involved somehow!) Check out the announce! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-A...
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People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated
June 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated
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@kentbeck.com is a legend in software engineering: and after coding for 52 years, he's never had more fun than now, he told me. Why? AI agents brought back the joy of creating software without the stuff that he's started to hate about coding.
Watch/listen:
• YouTube: youtu.be/aSXaxOdVtAQ (cont'd)
Watch/listen:
• YouTube: youtu.be/aSXaxOdVtAQ (cont'd)
June 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
@kentbeck.com is a legend in software engineering: and after coding for 52 years, he's never had more fun than now, he told me. Why? AI agents brought back the joy of creating software without the stuff that he's started to hate about coding.
Watch/listen:
• YouTube: youtu.be/aSXaxOdVtAQ (cont'd)
Watch/listen:
• YouTube: youtu.be/aSXaxOdVtAQ (cont'd)
Apple Liquid Glass feels very gimicky. Just because devices can now handle advanced lens effects doesn’t mean it should be used everywhere. Does it improve the usability? Remember skeuomorphic stitched leather? 😄
June 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Apple Liquid Glass feels very gimicky. Just because devices can now handle advanced lens effects doesn’t mean it should be used everywhere. Does it improve the usability? Remember skeuomorphic stitched leather? 😄
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I wrote up some thoughts about the effect of AI on programmer salaries: seldo.com/posts/ai-eff...
March 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I wrote up some thoughts about the effect of AI on programmer salaries: seldo.com/posts/ai-eff...
Excited to see what the future looks like in the year 2000 and beyond. Peace and prosperity for all, surely 😅
December 24, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Excited to see what the future looks like in the year 2000 and beyond. Peace and prosperity for all, surely 😅