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Depends on what we categorize as a coding agent. Devin was released two years ago. Cursor was about the same, and it released agent mode around 1.5 years ago. Aider has been around…

How exactly would they become "unflushable"? Also, surely if they were excellent candidates then you'd be doing your absolute best to keep them around?

Are the companies running the various AI systems going to release all of their source code and internal research to benefit society too?

He sits on the U.S. Supreme Court and is one of those responsible for this ruling.

"While it is true that pigs are less compatible with humans than monkeys, they can be genetically manipulated to produce organs less likely to be rejected on transplantation. Pigs …

Funnily enough, I recently had to help with an issue where a company's payment screen was not loading correctly and instead displaying "Invalid session". They use a third-party ven…

> "You post an article about a new programming language, you'll get 10 replies." A quick search pulls up results that would contradict that statement. https://news.ycombinator.com/…

I think their scouting team has definitely played a huge part, bringing in relative unknowns like Vardy, Mahrez and Kante. Most teams in the premier league track all sorts of stati…

Well in a browser extension, you wouldn't necessarily have a lot of people grabbing the comment history. The program could still run as it does, calling the HN API every ten minute…

I had a conversation about this exact thing while on a business trip with some colleagues recently. I'm from Ireland while my colleagues were from Finland, Italy and France. In Iri…

Not entirely true though. Yes the advertisers are their customers, but their customers need a large supply of the product (the users). In order to keep a consistently large supply …

My first car cost me €1000. My latest car that I bought in November cost just north of €3000.

It'll be very interesting to see if she can manage to get out of the deal. It'd also take a monumental effort in recruitment and research to make a move like this a success, in my …

I agree with you on a certain level, since there are so many outside factors influencing how quickly you can become a good programmer. It's not as if you are an average programmer …

Yes, of course this isn't something everyone would want. However, I for one know of lots of people that this would suit down to the ground. People who solely use their phones for c…

The higher cost of living factors into that majorly though. I know where I am (Dublin) it's very expensive to live in the city and I imagine London is the same. That's why employer…

"Personally, I know that my productivity takes a dip at 3pm every day. This is exactly where I place my nap, and it has been one of the most powerful ways to bring my productivity …

My first job in the development industry was working as a PHP developer for a nine month internship. Now that I'm graduating I received several job offers, most of them involved wo…

I wholeheartedly agree. I've noticed it a lot over the last while where many people in the software industry who write blog posts or contribute to forums just have an air of negati…

Very well put and it hits home. I always find that once I cut the first corner, I care less and less about each future shortcut or badly coded feature I implement. However, if I tr…

I read "JavaScript: The Good Parts" after having been using JavaScript for a couple of months and still found it overwhelming. Douglas Crockford moves through the topics at a very …

This is an excellent post. I'm soon-to-be fresh out of university and the company I'm joining had a hiring process very similar to what you've described. They were in constant cont…

Unfortunately for you, you can't pick and choose what you want when Google are providing you with a free email service. Generating personalized ads is how they make money from this…

Copying and pasting is fine if you're copying code you've written yourself. However, as you said, it's a lot more beneficial when you type out code because you'll make mistakes and…

I'm not a very experienced Node.js developer, but I have taken the time over the last couple of months to learn how to use it. I find working without CoffeeScript to be much more p…