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Github's Octoverse report kind of gives you that evidence, no? Pull requests landed in 2025 were up 30% over 2024. This year it's going to be much higher.

> Why do only the poor quality LLM code generation users make PRs to open source projects, and never the engineers that know how to really use it correctly? It could be that the en…

Your compiler created the bytecode that the CPU runs. How can you take pride in writing your Rust code?

When I'm building, and get approached by large customers who have specific needs for them, those needs go at the end of our backlog. There's a hard and fast rule that unless it's a…

Toothpaste making did not completely take over the world's supply of plastic for caps.

Where were the shoes that you are currently wearing manufactured?

"If a local district starts losing funding, then it would have to close / shrink schools, and people from outside the educational system would be allowed to establish independent (…

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If "we will opt everyone in because otherwise we won't get enough data because we know users won't opt in" is your business model, maybe it's time for a rethink.

Except you kind of do -- understanding data structures, understanding software engineering concepts, all of the things that you learn as a good engineer, those are ways that you he…

> Another way to look at this is that AI coding agents take the fun out of a software engineer's job. Completely backwards - the fun in the job should be to solve problems and come…

I love that "The Grandfathered In" section. Here's just one sample of a place that presumably this stupid website wants to keep up and running: https://www.latimes.com/environment/…

Title clickbait for sure, but the process has radically changed in the past 6 months due to this new generation of models. "Perfect code from the agent everytime" isn't really what…

I would argue that it's going to be the opposite. At re:Invent, one of the popular sessions was in creating a trio of SRE agents, one of which did nothing but read logs and report …

Many years ago, java compilers, though billed out as a multiple-platform write-once-run-anywhere solution, those compilers would output different bytecode that would behave in inte…

Someone who makes horseshoes then learns how to make carburetors, because the demand is 10x. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

"You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI." That is just such a wildly cynical point of view, and it is incredibly depressing. There is a whole huge coho…

11% success rate for what is effectively a spear-phishing attempt isn't that terrible and tbh it'll be easier to train Claude not to get tricked than it is to train eg my parents.

Go get yourself some home insurance on a single-family house in Miami.

Roam has always felt like a bit of a chore -- while it's easy enough to set up backlinks, having to do that one step has always been like a waste of time to me. This is the kind of…

And what happens to these datacenters when the underlying GPU tech becomes obsolete within 2-3 years?

Tesla is only in business today because it was able to sell carbon credits to other automakers. Take that government subsidy away and Tesla would have died in 2009.

The bespoke UK/EU models are not the priority, again because they aren't being made in the US, so yes the quality drops. You cannot get, for example, a new Focus in the US market. …

The real problem is that American consumers are demanding these gigantic monstrosity SUVs and trucks which literally cannot fit on European streets. When Ford et al were making hot…

This is absolutely spot on. What do you mean, I can't scale up because I've used my hardware capex budget for the year?