#software engineering
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AI Breaks Intellectual Communities
AI dissolves human intellectual communities, making private intellectual activity rarer.
Fernando Borretti · 1m
Margaret Hamilton, Apollo software pioneer, dies at 90
The computer scientist who led the team creating Apollo's onboard flight software has died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ABC News · 1m
Margaret Hamilton, Apollo's code pioneer, dies at 90
The software engineer who coined her field and saved the Apollo 11 landing with a failsafe she designed.
Ars Technica · 2m
Margaret Hamilton Dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, software engineer who helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90.
BBC News · 1m
Margaret Hamilton Dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, NASA Apollo software pioneer, dies at 90.
The Straits Times · 1m
Margaret Hamilton Dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer behind Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90.
the Guardian · 1m
Margaret Hamilton Dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, Apollo software pioneer, dies at 90 after shaping lunar missions.
MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2m
Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage
AI is eating junior engineering roles, but senior engineers are the next scarce resource, build your own to avoid price spikes.
Greg Herlein · 2m
Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap
A new programming language designed for AI-assisted formal verification may have reinvented the wheel by missing decades of existing research.
Liampwll · 2m · 5 views
How to build better coding agents
Researchers break down the components that make AI coding agents work, revealing what actually matters for performance.
arXiv · 1m
AI coding tools are turning engineers into button-pushers
Programmers warn that over-reliance on AI assistants is eroding coding skills and creating a crisis of meaning in software development.
Futurism · 1m · 7 views
Stop calling yourself an artisanal programmer
A word swap turned careful, hand-written code into a hobby, and the people who care lost the title of engineer.
Purplesyringa · 2m
Your agent is safe in the ways you can see
An engineer who knows slop when he sees it explains why you cannot trust a model in the fields you cannot check.
hyperbola · 1m
AI coding agents keep failing on real company code
A new benchmark ran eight frontier models against real tasks from private production codebases, and the best one solved under 40%.
Withspecific · 4m
Coding is solved, but the slop isn't
An Earendil researcher tried to measure how sloppy AI-written code really is, and found agents produce twice the mess humans do.
Earendil · 2m · 6 views
Astra writes code no human wants to read
Armin Ronacher burned 4 billion tokens on a weekend software factory and got 75k lines of unreadable slop.
Armin Ronacher · 3m
How Windows XP Picked Your Initial Profile Picture
A peek inside the clever single-pass algorithm that chose your default Windows XP user picture without slowing down your system.
The Old New Thing · 1m · 5 views
Version Control's Second Explosion
AI coding agents and giant monorepos are triggering the biggest shift in version control since Git launched in 2005.
Pablo Santos Luaces · 3m · 8 views
How AI Coding Agents Choose Their Tools
A study of 16,893 sessions reveals how Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor evaluate and choose developer tools.
Armature · 2m
How to Fix Any Bug: A Systematic Framework
Learn the step-by-step reduction process Dan Abramov uses to solve frustrating software bugs when AI and guessing fail.
Overreacted · 3m · 5 views
Dan Abramov Is Looking for a Software Role in Japan
React co-creator Dan Abramov is ending his sabbatical and seeking an English-speaking engineering role in Japan with visa sponsorship.
Overreacted · 2m · 5 views
Google Unveils Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber
Google's newest AI models bring advanced agentic reasoning and automated cyber defense at low-cost Flash pricing.
Google · 1m
