memes and CS student homework questions will pretty quickly turn the subreddit into _only_ memes and CS student homework questions, leaving no room for the subreddit's actual mission.
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The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail
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The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail
CI is only valuable when it fails. When it passes, it's just overhead: the same outcome you'd get without CI.
Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget.
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Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget.
On the gap between corporate theatre and actual engineering commitment
LLMs as natural language compilers: What the history of FORTRAN tells us about the future of coding.
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Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
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Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder
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AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder for Developers
AI handles writing code but leaves the hard work: investigation, context, validation. Why vibe coding has limits and AI assistance can backfire.
96% Engineers Don’t Fully Trust AI Output, Yet Only 48% Verify It
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96% Engineers Don’t Fully Trust AI Output, Yet Only 48% Verify It
Latest report: How engineers use AI, do they trust it, and top AI tools
Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
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Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI | TechCrunch
Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
One line of code, 102 blocked threads
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A Deep Dive into ClassLoader Contention in Java
Last month, while investigating intermittent latency spikes in our reporting service, I discovered something that made me do a double-take…
The Next Two Years of Software Engineering
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The Next Two Years of Software Engineering
Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving ...
Why “Skip the Code, Ship the Binary” Is a Category Error
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Why “Skip the Code, Ship the Binary” Is a Category Error
Elon Musk says AI will make programming languages obsolete by 2026. The compiler pipeline already does what he’s describing, deterministically, in milliseconds.
AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/aws-suffered-at-least-two-outages-caused-by-ai-tools-and-now-im-convinced-were-living-inside-a-silicon-valley-episode
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AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode
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Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"
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Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny
Listen now | Anthropic’s Boris Cherny on building Claude Code, how to maximize AI productivity, and what comes next after coding is “solved”
Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot [December outage]
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Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot
Tech giant blames ‘user error, not AI error’ for incident in December involving its Kiro tool
Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
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The proposal for generic methods for Go has been officially accepted
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spec: generic methods for Go · Issue #77273 · golang/go
Proposal: Generic Methods for Go A change of view. Background For clarity, in the following we use the term concrete method (or just method when the context is clear) to describe a non-interface me...
People are STILL Writing JavaScript "DRM"
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The Illusion of JavaScript DRM: A Three-Round Demolition of HotAudio's Copy Protection
A developer bragged about building 'fun' DRM for an NSFW ASMR platform. What followed was a three-round patch war that serves as a masterclass in why client-side JavaScript protections are a complete waste of everyone's time—and how to hijack the MediaSource…