The most exciting part of Programming Languages (PL) research for me| kirancodes.me
As someone who works in tech, you can barely go a full day without getting confronted with debates about how generative AI is going to affect the industry. The predictions vary wildly in terms of the expected scope and impact, with arguments constantly shifting and evolving with every new release...| Vivian Qu
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot. There's been a lot written about this (former Chicago Reader editor Martha Bayne's is the best), and I don't need to rehash it all. But the thing that is most disheartening to me is how at every step along the way, nobody cared.| dansinker.com
In my early twenties I had a cohort of friends and coworkers, all Silicon Valley engineers, all quite good at their jobs, all college dropouts. We developed a shared conviction that only losers got…| charity.wtf
How to use AI coding assistants without letting your hard-earned engineering skills wither away.| addyo.substack.com
understand + work backwards from the root goal • don’t rely too much on permission or encouragement • make success inevitable • find your angle • think real hard • reflect on your thinking| benkuhn.net
Home| www.scottantipa.com
A field guide to responsible AI-assisted development| Elevate
Yesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for more background read one of these two articles). Watching the infrastructure and security engineering teams at Carta respond, it highlighted to me just how much LLMs can’t meaningfully replace many essential roles of software professionals. However, I’m also reading Jennifer Palkha’s Recoding America, which makes an important point: decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can...| lethain.com
UPDATE: I’ve added a short section on the topic of sponsorship. I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially| Kitchen Soap
Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended| hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
A field guide and why we need to rethink our expectations| addyo.substack.com
Introduction| liw.fi
Eric Lippert notes the perils of programming in C++: I often think of C++ as my own personal Pit of Despair Programming Language. Unmanaged C++ makes it so easy to fall into traps. Think buffer overruns, memory leaks, double frees, mismatch between allocator and deallocator, using freed memory, umpteen dozen| Coding Horror
