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AI Will Create More Engineering Work, Not Less
In How GenAI Is Transforming Software Engineering, But Not Replacing It, Sr. Director of Global Business Innovation at Syntax, Matthias Steiner offers a comforting perspective for software engineers.
The AI Disruption Has Arrived
It was always a helpful coding assistant, but in November it suddenly got much better, and ever since I’ve been knocking off side projects that had sat in folders for a decade or longer.
Software is Dead
The simplest refutation of the “death of software” argument is this: AI is still software. And application-layer AI delivered in the cloud is still Software-as-a-Service.
The Software Industrial Revolution
Andy Coenen explains how we’re living through another Industrial Revolution - the Software Industrial Revolution. In the first Industrial Revolution, they revolutionized textile production. In this one, it's software.
A Senior Engineer’s Guide to Learning a New Codebase
My manager challenged me to learn a new part of the codebase that I've never worked on before. I figured I would use it as an opportunity to jot down...
Matteo Collina on the Future of Software Engineering
Matteo has some good points about The Future of the Software Engineering Career. For one, valuable engineers will have to rely on fundamentals to wor...
Matthew Hansen on the Hard Parts of Software Development
In AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder, Matthew shares a lesson that has taken me more than 20 years to learn: Writing code is...
The Shift From Programming to Engineering
Speaking of everything bagels, Hampton Lintorn-Catlin has an interesting perspective about the role of engineers versus programmers in the AI age. AI...
Satya Nadella’s Architecture for Executive Success
Jeffrey Snover invites us behind the scenes of his promotion to Technical Fellow, when he joined Microsoft’s other Senior Executives. Satya Nadella g...
The Future of Programming Looks a Lot Like an Everything Bagel
What does the future of programming look like? Swizec Teller says it's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Addy Osmani thinks it will be "Agen...
How Software Will Survive with AI
In Software Survival 3.0 Steve Yegge lays out a model for software survivability that states, roughly: AI is advancing exponentially, and in a world ...
AGENTS.md outperforms skills
Interesting research from Vercel about the performance of AGENTS.md vs skills. Their pragmatic suggestion is to create an index of docs in your AGENT...
AI is not Inevitable
I got nerd-sniped right before work and just had to write this post. In AI code and software craft, Alex looks at AI through the lens of Jacques ...
Watermark Your Writing to Prove You're Human
I've got a sick kid and I couldn't sleep. My brain was going, so I'm up reading articles in the wee hours of the morning. By chance I came across...
The Most Extreme CSS Reset Ever Created: 10,000 Lines of Failure
"Free fire explosion image"/ CC0 1.0 I appreciate the intentionality of Vale's CSS reset - everything has a reason. But what I found the most eye-...
Chris Coyier on CSS Module Imports
Wow! You can now import CSS modules in Firefox. This means that it works in every browser except for Safari. Via Frontend Masters Blog ...
Anthropic on AI-Resistant Interviews
It's ironic that Anthropic is looking to beat AI in their interviews, but aren't we all? Here is a list of key principles from Designing AI-resistant...
Anil Dash on Codeless
The next meaningful breakthrough that has emerged in AI‑assisted software development is orchestrating fleets of coding bots that can build entire fe...
Raphael Amorim on Monozukuri and Software Development
[AI prioritizes] time over quality. To achieve quality, a programmer needs to have experienced what is being built. Software development follows the...
Details Make the Design
I was poking around on Detail, getting some inspiration when it occurred to me that the small details really do make a big difference. I know that's ...