We recently sped up our integration tests by a factor of ten by running many of them in parallel. There were several flaky tests in the new test suite. Claude was really useful in getting rid of al…

I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.

We are producing more with AI. What we’re producing less of, apparently, is honest reflection on what that actually means. The internet is full of frameworks, prompt guides, and tutorials promising yo...

Having used Claude Code for a few months now, I have noticed how software development has changed for me. I write a lot less code, but I spend more time understanding and testing the code Claude ha…

Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too. PLUS: the Pope's AI encyclical, and Trump abandons an AI executive order

Agentic coding collapses the timeline of software decisions. What we gain in speed, we pay for in decision density and mental energy. Here's a deep dive into the trade-offs and how to work with them.

New research confirms that LLMs often perform better when you encourage them. But why?

Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny on building AI-powered coding tools, parallel agents, and how the engineer's role is evolving in an AI-first world.

This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons. I don't actually mind A...

What happens when your AI assistant (the one with access to your email, your calendar, your code, basically your whole life) can’t tell the…

For the last few months, I have been developing a new reporting application. Early on, I decided to add a –dry-run option to the run command. This turned out to be quite useful – I have…

Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders gro...

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

Author: Adam Mastroianni

Released in 2024, uv is hands-down the best tool for managing Python installations and dependencies. Here's why.

A thorough review of a major cloud outage.

At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to go along with what looked like fraud. They obliged in two out of three cases, landed in hot water, a...

🧠 Cognitive load is what matters. Contribute to zakirullin/cognitive-load development by creating an account on GitHub.

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, de...

Some historical documents from WWII have a notice on them stating This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone. The documents I've found were received by the United

We think we see the world as it is, but in fact we see it through a thick fog of received knowledge and ideas, some of which are right and some of which are

From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.

Aman's AI Journal | Course notes and learning material for Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Stanford classes.

LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.

I thought it’d be worth posting an example of a bigger task I did the other day - just to show what can be done, without crazy vibe-coding, on a non-greenfields app, using ASP.Net Core not some simpli...

How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

A few weeks ago, I had a conversation that’s stayed with me. A colleague from another department said: “I’ve always been able to read and understand code, even debug it, but I could never write it.” S...

Shopify's Head of Engineering, Farhan Thawar, shares how the company is using internal LLMs, unlimited AI tokens, and custom tooling to figure out how to use AI tools more efficiently - faster