The dev who asks too many questions is the one you need in your team
https://leadthroughmistakes.substack.com/p/the-teammate-who-asks-too-many-questions

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Thoughts? Software companies that went extreme into AI coding are not enjoying what they are getting - show reports from 2024-2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0nH_pSAdM

https://redd.it/1qqob17
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Your AI diagram looks great and nobody will read it
https://jpcaparas.medium.com/your-ai-diagram-looks-great-and-nobody-will-read-it-f1e34fe9c8f1?sk=46e2e66a39bc97190a554caad187c88d

https://redd.it/1qqizxa
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How Replacing Developers With AI is Going Horribly Wrong
https://youtu.be/ts0nH_pSAdM?si=Kn2m9MqmWmdL6739

https://redd.it/1qr43mp
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You can code only 4 hours per day. Here’s why.
https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/you-can-code-only-4-hours-per-day

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The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding | Addy Osmani
https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-80-problem-in-agentic-coding

https://redd.it/1qsexgr
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Quality is a hard sell in big tech
https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/big-tech-quality/

https://redd.it/1qskrh4
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The dumbest performance fix ever
https://computergoblin.com/blog/the-story-of-a-5-minute-endpoint/

https://redd.it/1qrysmp
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In Praise of –dry-run
https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/

https://redd.it/1qse1g5
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[IntelliJ] Wayland By Default in 2026.1 EAP
https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2026/02/wayland-by-default-in-2026-1-eap/

https://redd.it/1qw5o6z
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Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back.
https://xakpc.dev/windows-widgets/history/

https://redd.it/1qvjvk4
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I Am Not a Functional Programmer
https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2026-01-28-i-am-not-a-functional-programmer

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Striking a Balance: Working Fully Remote for Nearly a Decade
https://rion.io/2025/12/30/striking-a-balance-working-fully-remote-for-nearly-a-decade/

https://redd.it/1qw3kj5
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Postman: From API Client to “Everything App”
https://codingismycraft.blog/index.php/2026/02/05/postman-from-api-client-to-everything-app/

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Why AI-Generated Code Will Hurt Both Customers and Companies
https://beastx.ro/why-ai-generated-code-will-hurt-both-customers-and-companies

https://redd.it/1qwo8ld
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Anthropic built a C compiler using a "team of parallel agents", has problems compiling hello world.
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

https://redd.it/1qwzyu4
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Sudo's maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/sudo_maintainer_asks_for_help/

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I'm tired of trying to make vibe coding work for me
https://youtu.be/ly-GM3aYgfQ?si=QRuDvEuzlfIRENfX

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Our Agile coach's answer to every technical problem was let's break it into smaller stories
https://agilelie.com/blog/agile-coach-never-wrote-code?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=post3_agile_coach

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State of the Subreddit (January 2027): Mods applications and rules updates

tl;dr: mods applications and minor rules changes. Also it's 2026, lol.

Hello fellow programs!

It's been a while since I've [checked in](https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1chs4ib/the_state_of_the_subreddit_may_2024/) and I wanted to give an update on the state of affairs. I won't be able to reply to every single thing but I'll do my best.

# Mods applications

I know there's been some [frustration about moderation resources](https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qni22q/meta_mods_when_will_you_get_on_top_of_the/) so first things first, I want to open up applications for new mods for r/programming. If you're interested please start by reading the [State of the Subreddit (May 2024)](https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1chs4ib/the_state_of_the_subreddit_may_2024/) post for the reasoning behind the current rulesets, then leave a comment below with the word "application" somewhere in it so that I can tell it apart from the memes. In there please give at least:

- Why you want to be a mod
- Your favourite/least favourite kinds of programming content here or anywhere else
- What you'd change about the subreddit if you had a magic wand, ignoring feasibility
- Reddit experience (new user, 10 year veteran, spez himself) and moderation experience if any

I'm looking to pick up 10-20 new mods if possible, and then I'll be looking to them to first help clean the place up (mainly just keeping the new page free of rule-breaking content) and then for feedback on changes that we could start making to the rules and content mix. I've been procrastinating this for a while so wish me luck. We'll probably make some mistakes at first so try to give us the benefit of the doubt.

# Rules update

Not much is changing about the rules since [last time](https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1chs4ib/the_state_of_the_subreddit_may_2024/) except for a few things, most of which I said last time I was keeping an eye on

- 🚫 **Generic AI content** that has nothing to do with programming. It's gotten out of hand and our users hate it. I thought it was a brief fad but it's been 2 years and it's still going.
- 🚫 **Newsletters** I tried to work with the frequent fliers for these and literally zero of them even responded to me so we're just going to do away with the category
- 🚫 "**I made this**", previously called demos with code. These are generally either a blatant ad for a product or are just a bare link to a GitHub repo. It was previously allowed when it was at least a GitHub link because sometimes people discussed the technical details of the code on display but these days even the code dumps are just people showing off something they worked on. That's cool, but it's not programming content.

## The rules!

With all of that, here is the current set of the rules with the above changes included so I can link to them all in one place.

✅ means that it's currently allowed, 🚫 means that it's not currently allowed, ⚠️ means that we leave it up if it is already popular but if we catch it young in its life we do try to remove it early, 👀 means that I'm not making a ruling on it today but it's a category we're keeping an eye on

* ✅ Actual programming content. They probably have actual code in them. Language or library writeups, papers, technology denoscriptions. How an allocator works. How my new fancy allocator I just wrote works. How our startup built our Frobnicator. For many years this was the only category of allowed content.
* ✅ Academic CS or programming papers
* ✅ Programming news. ChatGPT can write code. A big new CVE just dropped. Curl 8.01 released now with Coffee over IP support.
* ✅ Programmer career content. How to become a Staff engineer in 30 days. Habits of the best engineering managers. These must be related or specific to programming/software engineering careers in some way
* ✅ Articles/news interesting *to* programmers but not about programming. Work from home is bullshit. Return to office is bullshit. There's a Steam sale on

programming games. Terry Davis has died. How to SCRUMM. App Store commissions are going up. How to hire a more diverse development team. Interviewing programmers is broken.
* ⚠️ General technology news. Google buys its last competitor. A self driving car hit a pedestrian. Twitter is collapsing. Oculus accidentally showed your grandmother a penis. Github sued when Copilot produces the complete works of Harry Potter in a code comment. Meta cancels work from home. Gnome dropped a feature I like. How to run Stable Diffusion to generate pictures of, uh, cats, yeah it's definitely just for cats. A bitcoin VR metaversed my AI and now my app store is mobile social local.
* 🚫 Anything clearly written mostly by an LLM. If you don't want to write it, we don't want to read it.
* 🚫 Politics. The Pirate Party is winning in Sweden. Please vote for net neutrality. Big Tech is being sued in Europe for *gestures broadly*. Grace Hopper Conference is now 60% male.
* 🚫 Gossip. Richard Stallman switches to Windows. Elon Musk farted. Linus Torvalds was a poopy-head on a mailing list. The People's Rust Foundation is arguing with the Rust Foundation For The People. Terraform has been forked into Terra and Form. Stack Overflow sucks now. Stack Overflow is good actually.
* 🚫 Generic AI content that has nothing to do with programming. It's gotten out of hand and our users hate it.
* 🚫 Newsletters, Listicles or anything else that just aggregates other content. If you found 15 open source projects that will blow my mind, post those 15 projects instead and we'll be the judge of that.
* 🚫 Demos without code. I wrote a game, come buy it! Please give me feedback on my startup (totally not an ad nosirree). I stayed up all night writing a commercial text editor, here's the pricing page. I made a DALL-E image generator. I made the fifteenth animation of A* this week, here's a GIF.
* 🚫 Project demos, "I made this". Previously called demos with code. These are generally either a blatant ad for a product or are just a bare link to a GitHub repo.
* ✅ Project technical writups. "I made this _and here's how_". As said above, true technical writeups of a codebase or demonstrations of a technique or samples of interesting code in the wild are absolutely welcome and encouraged. All links to projects must include what makes them technically interesting, not just what they do or a feature list or that you spent all night making it. The technical writeup must be the _focus_ of the post, not just a tickbox checking exercise to get us to allow it. This is a technical subreddit, not Product Hunt. We don't care what you built, we care _how_ you build it.
* 🚫 AskReddit type forum questions. What's your favourite programming language? Tabs or spaces? Does anyone else hate it when.
* 🚫 Support questions. How do I write a web crawler? How do I get into programming? Where's my missing semicolon? Please do this obvious homework problem for me. Personally I feel very strongly about not allowing these because they'd quickly drown out all of the actual content I come to see, and there are already much more effective places to get them answered anyway. In real life the quality of the ones that we see is also universally very low.
* 🚫 Surveys and 🚫 Job postings and anything else that is looking to extract value from a place a lot of programmers hang out without contributing anything itself.
* 🚫 Meta posts. DAE think r/programming sucks? Why did you remove my post? Why did you ban this user that is totes not me I swear I'm just asking questions. Except this meta post. This one is okay because I'm a tyrant that the rules don't apply to (I assume you are saying about me to yourself right now).
* 🚫 Images, memes, anything low-effort or low-content. Thankfully we very rarely see any of this so there's not much to remove but like support questions once you have a few of these they tend to totally take over because it's easier to make a meme than to write a paper and also easier to vote on a meme than to read a paper.
* ⚠️ Posts that we'd normally allow but that are obviously,