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65 stories tagged Software Development.

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AI Is Breaking Open Source, and GitHub Won't Save Us

AI-generated pull requests are flooding maintainers, degrading code quality, and making open source maintenance unsustainable. Here's what's actually happening.

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While Everyone Panics About AI Layoffs, Some Companies Are Hiring

Zara Chen6 months ago

AI. Zara Chen6 months ago

While Everyone Panics About AI Layoffs, Some Companies Are Hiring

Whoop just doubled its workforce while others cut headcount. The companies hiring aggressively might understand something the cutters don't about AI's actual impact.

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Fresh Text Editor Challenges Terminal Editing Status Quo

Samira Barnes6 months ago

AI. Samira Barnes6 months ago

Fresh Text Editor Challenges Terminal Editing Status Quo

Fresh Text Editor brings modern IDE features to terminal environments. Policy implications for developer tools, accessibility, and open-source ecosystems.

The Engineer Who Stopped Writing Code

Bob Reynolds6 months ago

AI. Bob Reynolds6 months ago

The Engineer Who Stopped Writing Code

Boris Cherny created Claude Code at Anthropic. Now he doesn't write any code himself. A year into AI-assisted development, what have we learned?

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Effect-Oriented Programming: Making Side Effects Safe

Zara Chen6 months ago

AI. Zara Chen6 months ago

Effect-Oriented Programming: Making Side Effects Safe

Three authors explain how effect-oriented programming brings type safety to the messy, unpredictable parts of code—without the intimidating math.

Not Every Problem Needs AI. Here's How to Tell.

Bob Reynolds6 months ago

AI. Bob Reynolds6 months ago

Not Every Problem Needs AI. Here's How to Tell.

Google engineers explain when to use generative AI, traditional machine learning, or just plain code. The answer matters more than you'd think.

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When AI Builds a Compiler in Two Weeks: What Just Changed

Marcus Chen-Ramirez6 months ago

AI. Marcus Chen-Ramirez6 months ago

When AI Builds a Compiler in Two Weeks: What Just Changed

Anthropic's Claude built a 100,000-line C compiler autonomously in two weeks. IBM experts debate whether this milestone was inevitable—and what it means for developers.

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AI Agents That Work While You Sleep: The Next Shift

Bob Reynolds6 months ago

AI. Bob Reynolds6 months ago

AI Agents That Work While You Sleep: The Next Shift

Cloud-based AI coding agents now run scheduled tasks overnight. A developer built a news monitoring system in one afternoon that never sleeps.

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Most Developers Using AI Are Getting Slower, Not Faster

Tyler Nakamura6 months ago

AI. Tyler Nakamura6 months ago

Most Developers Using AI Are Getting Slower, Not Faster

A rigorous study found developers using AI tools took 19% longer while believing they were 24% faster. What's really happening with AI coding?

AI Code Generation Hits Open Source Like a Sledgehammer

Bob Reynolds7 months ago

AI. Bob Reynolds7 months ago

AI Code Generation Hits Open Source Like a Sledgehammer

AI-generated code is overwhelming open source maintainers with low-quality contributions. GitHub now lets projects disable pull requests entirely.

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Why Code Maintenance Is Harder Than Anyone Admits

Rachel "Rach" Kovacs7 months ago

AI. Rachel "Rach" Kovacs7 months ago

Why Code Maintenance Is Harder Than Anyone Admits

Oh My Zsh creator Robby Russell on the real cost of technical debt, why rewrites fail, and what 99% of developer time actually looks like.

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Anthropic's AI-Built C Compiler: Engineering Feat or PR Stunt?

Marcus Chen-Ramirez7 months ago

AI. Marcus Chen-Ramirez7 months ago

Anthropic's AI-Built C Compiler: Engineering Feat or PR Stunt?

Anthropic let 16 Claude agents build a C compiler over two weeks. It compiled Linux and ran Doom—but the methods raise questions about what 'AI-built' means.

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Building a Virtual Machine From Scratch Takes Six Hours

Bob Reynolds7 months ago

AI. Bob Reynolds7 months ago

Building a Virtual Machine From Scratch Takes Six Hours

A programmer documents building a 16-bit virtual machine in C with custom assembly language, revealing the actual complexity of low-level systems work.

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AI Coding Tools Might Freeze Dev Progress—Or Not

Marcus Chen-Ramirez7 months ago

AI. Marcus Chen-Ramirez7 months ago

AI Coding Tools Might Freeze Dev Progress—Or Not

Sam Altman says AI models will adapt to new code. But tokenization, training data, and architecture suggest the problem is more fundamental than that.