doing some software engineering
September 25, 2026 at 10:28 AM
doing some software engineering
Too many people still confuse Software Engineering with writing code. Code is the artifact. Software Engineering is understanding the problem, making tradeoffs, designing the system, reducing complexity, and deciding what shouldn't be built. No amount of 'vibe coding' can help you with this.
May 27, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Too many people still confuse Software Engineering with writing code. Code is the artifact. Software Engineering is understanding the problem, making tradeoffs, designing the system, reducing complexity, and deciding what shouldn't be built. No amount of 'vibe coding' can help you with this.
By the way, bad software engineering does regularly kill people, just not in an easily traceable way.
approximately one industry in our civilization has figured out "systematically keep track of things that go wrong, and then systematically try to prevent them from happening again", and this is the result
September 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM
By the way, bad software engineering does regularly kill people, just not in an easily traceable way.
agentic software engineering (claude does the software engineering, I play 007 first light)
July 25, 2026 at 6:56 AM
agentic software engineering (claude does the software engineering, I play 007 first light)
Are Emotions relevant in Software Engineering?
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Emotions in Software Engineering, with Nicole Novielli (Uniba) by Professor Adolfo Neto
In this episode, Professor Adolfo Neto interviews Nicole Novielli, Associate Professor at the University of Bari, about the role of emotions in software engineering.
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August 30, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Are Emotions relevant in Software Engineering?
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I’m also offended by competent software engineering
Anthropic using regex instead of their actual *language model* to detect negative sentiment in prompts.
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from @sushee@ohai.social [over here](https://ohai.social/@sushee/116325702070975973), (can't attach images in quotes) and apparently discussed on HN so i'm late, but...
They REALLY...
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April 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I’m also offended by competent software engineering
“we’ll deal with that when it happens” a time honored method of software engineering
November 17, 2024 at 5:27 PM
“we’ll deal with that when it happens” a time honored method of software engineering
the hard part of software engineering was never the code
April 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
the hard part of software engineering was never the code
5. Edward Coristine, another 2022 high school graduate and former software engineering intern at Musk’s Neuralink, has also been given access to the databases.
February 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
5. Edward Coristine, another 2022 high school graduate and former software engineering intern at Musk’s Neuralink, has also been given access to the databases.
Because LLMs are standard software engineering tools in 2026.
September 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Because LLMs are standard software engineering tools in 2026.
I know the meme is that software engineering isn't like real engineering, but (1) you can start taking your job seriously today! and (2) engineers in most other fields would KILL for the kinds of advanced version control we take for granted
September 21, 2026 at 4:36 AM
I know the meme is that software engineering isn't like real engineering, but (1) you can start taking your job seriously today! and (2) engineers in most other fields would KILL for the kinds of advanced version control we take for granted
as someone with an anxiety disorder who gets bad brain fog during very anxious periods, choosing software engineering and then writing as careers was certainly a series of decisions
April 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
as someone with an anxiety disorder who gets bad brain fog during very anxious periods, choosing software engineering and then writing as careers was certainly a series of decisions
Just a *reminder*
Juni is looking for a software engineering job!
You can fire your head of T&S and hire a new developer!
Juni is looking for a software engineering job!
You can fire your head of T&S and hire a new developer!
December 20, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Just a *reminder*
Juni is looking for a software engineering job!
You can fire your head of T&S and hire a new developer!
Juni is looking for a software engineering job!
You can fire your head of T&S and hire a new developer!
It feels wrong that software engineering was solved before IKEA furniture assembly, and yet it's so, so relatable
I propose this as the official replacement for the famous (and now saturated) METR Long Task Horizon chart that used to be in every AI presentation.
September 24, 2026 at 5:53 PM
It feels wrong that software engineering was solved before IKEA furniture assembly, and yet it's so, so relatable
Software engineering is so easy.
November 28, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Software engineering is so easy.
the people cry out for no-budget variety shows led by transsexual polymaths who majored in political science, software engineering, and Applied Muppet Fucking
September 19, 2026 at 9:32 PM
the people cry out for no-budget variety shows led by transsexual polymaths who majored in political science, software engineering, and Applied Muppet Fucking
software engineering is going to become wildlife management and forestry
September 7, 2026 at 8:15 AM
software engineering is going to become wildlife management and forestry
not even software works like software
otherwise all those software engineering practices would produce good software, which they demonstrably do not
otherwise all those software engineering practices would produce good software, which they demonstrably do not
April 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
not even software works like software
otherwise all those software engineering practices would produce good software, which they demonstrably do not
otherwise all those software engineering practices would produce good software, which they demonstrably do not
How software engineering feels
March 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
How software engineering feels
I don't care what anyone says,
But software engineering is creative work.
That's it
But software engineering is creative work.
That's it
November 20, 2024 at 9:39 AM
I don't care what anyone says,
But software engineering is creative work.
That's it
But software engineering is creative work.
That's it
“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any.
“.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.”
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“.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.”
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July 15, 2026 at 9:51 AM
“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any.
“.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.”
@theatlantic.com
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“.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.”
@theatlantic.com
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Senior software engineer at Anthropic (former engineering director at Meta & VP of engineering at Robinhood) declares software engineering a solved problem by Claude Code.
It’s going to be ironic if the first job truly replaced by AI is software engineering.
It’s going to be ironic if the first job truly replaced by AI is software engineering.
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Senior software engineer at Anthropic (former engineering director at Meta & VP of engineering at Robinhood) declares software engineering a solved problem by Claude Code.
It’s going to be ironic if the first job truly replaced by AI is software engineering.
It’s going to be ironic if the first job truly replaced by AI is software engineering.
Some software engineering team is doing the math on odometer acceleration and sending out updates to trigger it on faulty cars
People are getting raises and promotions for kicking defective Teslas off warranty
People are getting raises and promotions for kicking defective Teslas off warranty
April 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Some software engineering team is doing the math on odometer acceleration and sending out updates to trigger it on faulty cars
People are getting raises and promotions for kicking defective Teslas off warranty
People are getting raises and promotions for kicking defective Teslas off warranty
The upcoming death of software engineering has been greatly exaggerated by people who never built software themselves
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Yep this. The bottleneck has never been typing speed; it's always been human understanding and intent. There's some benefit to making that intent translate faster in iteration loops, but software engineering as a discipline ain't going anywhere.
People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated
June 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The upcoming death of software engineering has been greatly exaggerated by people who never built software themselves
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