Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.| substack.com
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.| substack.com
I wrote a small tool for myself as my biannual routine check of where llms are currently at. I think I've learned a bunch from this exercise. This is frustrating! I don't want to learn by trial and error, I'd rather read someone's blog post with lessons learned. Sadly, most of the writing on the topic that percolates to me tends to be high-level --- easy to nod along while reading, but hard to extract actionable lessons. So this is what I want to do here, list specific tricks learned.| matklad.github.io
I’ve been apartment hunting here in the Tokyo-area with my girlfriend. We’ve been sending links to various rental property listings back and forth in LINE (messaging app) and emailing with brokers. In a chat interface, it was hard keeping up with the status of each of the properties we’d seen, we wanted to see, we’d inquired about, etc. Classic project management problem.| twocentstudios.com
So it’s pretty public that for about a month now I’ve had 32 processes setup on one of the 64 core 128gb RAM servers to just ssh in, tmux to a window, and tell it to slam on some things non-stop. And it has been really successful!.. with the right definition of success. Let me explain. I think the first will answer the others. Basically, Claude is really not smart at all. There is no extensive algorithm implementation that has come from AI. I know some GSoCers and SciML Small Grants appli...| Julia Programming Language
Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency. There are so many (hype/boring) posts about AI coming out every day. It’s OK to use it, and everyone does it, but still learn your craft, and try to think.| www.ssp.sh
Chat with open-source models privately| synthetic.new
Andy Bell had heard companies were forcing employees to use AI tools so spoke to developers to determine if that was the case and learned some horrors in the process.| Piccalilli
Malicious websites can embed invisible commands that AI agents will follow blindly.| Ars Technica
Can AI truly collaborate with human coders? Researchers highlight the hurdles and potential solutions in AI-driven software engineering.| IEEE Spectrum
Tweezers are cool, but Claude Code feels like a machete.| taylor.town
On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions| maggieappleton.com
By some appearances, at least, the kernel community has been relatively insulated from the onsl [...]| LWN.net
What the hell is going on right now?| catskull.net
This project is dedicated to analyzing security vulnerabilities in AI systems, focusing on agentic coding agents. Our goal is to raise awareness around critical risks like prompt injection and the dangers of over-reliance on LLM output.| monthofaibugs.com
Earlier this summer, Sean Heelan published a great blog post detailing his use of o3 to find a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel. The internet lit up in response, and for good reason. Since the initial release of ChatGPT in late 2022, we’ve all been wondering: Can LLMs really find complex vulnerabilities in widely used production codebases? The Linux kernel is a great research target to help answer that question.| noperator.dev
GPT-5 writes a Zig EVTX parser from scratch.| www.omerba.dev
I got a massage recently. And as I was lying there and relaxing, my attention came to the music softly playing in the background. It was R&B-flavored, chill, slightly lo-fi and distinctly generic.| blog.lyall.co
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.| blog.glyph.im
From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.| zed.dev
Nexus serves as a central hub that aggregates MCP servers while providing intelligent LLM routing capabilities.| Nexus
What we’ll do is set a low-ish turn limit and see how much they manage to| entropicthoughts.com
ai reviews my mini webserver. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.| Gist
A census of LLM coding assistants with instructions in the top 100,000 repos on GitHub| aleyan.com
Imagine being in a department store that sells clothes from multiple brands and having a personal shopping assistant to help you select the clothes you want to buy. As a blind person, that's about the only way it's possible to go clothes shopping, independently at least, but few stores offer such a service, so you resort to shopping online.| TetraLogical
Wassette is a secure, open-source Model Context Protocol server that leverages WebAssembly to provide a trusted execution environment for untrusted tools.| Microsoft Open Source Blog
When AI-driven speed meets open source ecosystems, we get 'vibe packages'—libraries published fast but maintained poorly. Here's the impact.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
I haven't invested much time in LLM tools yet, but I don't have big loud reasons for that, more a jumbled drawerful of impressions and priorities.| www.scattered-thoughts.net
Every day I seem to run into yet another post with someone solemnly opining that “writing code has never been the hardest part of software engineering. And hey, that’s smashing.| Honeycomb
OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?| www.experimental-history.com
Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome| colton.dev
When vibe coding, isn't the source code the prompt?| boston.conman.org
You heard it here first: my guess is that Rust, Python, and TypeScript are going to become the dominant languages going forward (excluding the mobile market, which has extra wrinkles). The argument is simple. Increasing use of AI coding is going to weaken people’s loyalty to programming languages, moving it from what is often a tribal decision to one based on fundamentals. And the fundamentals for those 3 languages look pretty strong to me: Rust targets system software or places where effic...| smallcultfollowing.com
Exploring how to track and analyze changes in Claude Code's system prompts and tools to understand AI assistant evolution| mariozechner.at
If creators of documentation are prepared to sacrifice its human purpose in order that LLMs can more effectively slurp it up and regurgitate it on demand, then they have meekly accepted values that more properly belong in a dystopian horror story.| vurt.org
Application Security for the AI Era | Veracode| Veracode
Postmortem of our first service outage caused by LLMs.| sketch.dev
It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled myself from writing every line of code, I still consider myself fully responsible for everything I ship to Puzzmo, but the ability to instantly create a whole scene instead of goi...| blog.puzzmo.com
Some of my attempts to make agents work better that just didn’t work.| Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
I have wanted to write this blog post for quite some time, but been unsure about the exact angle of it. I think I found that angle now where I will root the post in a very tangible concrete example. So the reason I wanted to write this was because I do feel there is...| Christian F.K. Schaller
notes.billmill.org /| notes.billmill.org
With the rise of vibe coding, you can (and should) open a merge request without reading it. What's missing is being able to *approve* it without reading it either — or even opening your eyes.| blog.jse.li
Renting is for Suckers| andrewkelley.me
This post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC.| Recurse Center
From the Zed Blog: If you don’t want AI in your workflow, it won’t be there.| zed.dev
How to automatically clean up trailing whitespace that AI assistants leave behind| writeaheadblogg.ing
Frontier LLMs such as Gemini 2.5 PRO, with their vast understanding of many topics and their ability to grasp thousands of lines of code in a few seconds, are able to extend and amplify the programmer capabilities. If you are able to describe problems in a clear way and, if you are able to accept the back and forth needed in order to work with LLMs, you can reach incredible results such as:| antirez.com
One of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out,...| newsletter.vickiboykis.com
Summary: I extracted a load of old blog content from the feeds archived on the Wayback Machine and converted it into markdown files suitable for posting on my blog, and got AI to write all the code for me. The generated code is all here in github.| philwilson.org
In the 1950s and 1960s, there was an explosion of innovation in programming languages. Programmers went from programming in assembly language and machine code, to writing programs in higher-level, portable, languages. Pioneers like John Backus, Jean Sammet, and Grace Hopper had the foresight to see what is now common knowledge: software is at the core of technology, and improving the speed and cost of software development would accelerate the rise of computing, and rise of the world’s economy.| kiro.dev
An unobtrusive method of estimating a user's geographic location.| docs.getlost.gg
Have you ever considered improving your coding productivity by freeing your hands from mundane tasks like accepting code autocompletion? Imagine leveraging your feet to accept code suggestions and streamlining your coding sessions. Well, vibe coding just got a bit more interesting thanks to USB foot pedals.| On Coding
In late 2022 and early 2023 I published a pair of articles: one outlining my| tratt.net
Out of multiple conversations with people at BSD conferences, I noticed that many would love to see a chatbot that provides precise information on FreeBSD—for users, admins, and developers. I strongly believe that there should not be an official chat.freebsd.org. Local chatbots work well and can be tweaked to fit personal needs. This documentation is written for macOS with Apple Silicon (because of the GPU support), but should work on other OSes as well.| hackacad.net
Vibe Coding Casino| evrim.zone
We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower. We view this result as a snapshot of early-2025 AI capabilities in one relevant setting; as these systems continue to rapidly evolve, we plan on continuing to use this methodology to help estimate AI ...| metr.org
To build effective LLM-powered apps, the key is grounding models with clear, tight specifications—without it, their eagerness to help can derail your goals and lead to unintended results.| Unstract.com →
No code edits, only complete rewrites| www.gibney.org
Jul 06, 2025 . 10 min | blog.meain.io
Atharva Raykar ...| blog.nilenso.com
From: D (Jul 06 2025, at 15:09)| ongoing by Tim Bray
If you asked me where I fall in the AI camp, I’m in the skeptical-but-curious quadrant (example). Notwithstanding the various legitimate critiques of what everyone is calling AI and doing with it, I have been finding some interesting utility with it in my — I don’t want to say every day but in — my week to week. This is particularly in the space of large language models (LLM)s. Places and Niches for Use How and where I’ve found utility with LLM is not quite as proponents have framed...| matttproud.com (blog)
The making of a diamond is a repeatable, but naturally non-reproducible process. The exact same input of carbon subject to the exact same configuration of pressure, temperature, forge, time, process control will never produce the exact same diamond twice. Once made, a diamond is unique. And once made, a diamond is forever.| www.evalapply.org
I’ve always found meaning, and a lot of strength, in building things. Now, with AI coding agents changing the way we work, it’s easy to feel threatened, like something essential might get taken away. But honestly, that creative urge can’t be replaced by any tool. In this episode, I talk about what it’s like when your identity is tied to... […]| CoRecursive Podcast
Treating LLMs as shitty general purpose computers we program with natural language. Because throwing shit at the wall wasn't working anymore.| mariozechner.at
LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.| ordep.dev
From the Zed Blog: Alberto Fortin shares his honest reflection on the reality of using LLMs in production code and why he's taking a more measured approach.| zed.dev
So my journey with these earbuds started after I saw them on this Mrwhosetheboss video about pointless tech. This device seems to be also popular on TikTok. My suspicions were confirmed, this runs android. So of course i went ahead and bought them. 245 euros later... and they finally arrived!| MGD Blog
Running AI on the edge or at home made easy with a NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, Nomad and Ollama| atodorov.me
Alex Gaynor maintains rust-asn1, and recently spotted a missing LLVM compiler optimization while hacking on it, with the assistance of Claude (Alex works for Anthropic). He describes how he confirmed …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
Sun 22 June 2025| www.danmcquillan.org
Replace traditional managers with intelligent managers powered by LLMs. Streamline operations, reduce costs, and boost productivity with AI-powered management.| aimanagers.app
Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementations are becoming increasingly prevalent, enabling developers and systems to interact with multiple services using...| Techdecline's Blog
Docs for AI agents§| technicalwriting.dev
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.| Google
I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.| George Mandis
Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.| developers.googleblog.com
So you want to serialize some DER?| alexgaynor.net
Welcome back! Come one, come all, friends, foes, fart connoisseurs, all are welcome here at Camel Central.| sourcegraph.com
If you are a programmer in 2025 you have likely been pressured into| agentultra.com
Ingrid's personal site and blog| ingrids.space
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic. — Steve Jobs| Omar Abid - Personal Blog
I use AI a lot for work, pretty much all day every day. I use coding assistants and custom agents I’ve built. I use AI to help code review changes, dig into bugs, and keep track of my projects. I’ve found lots of things it’s very helpful with, and lots of things it’s terrible at. If there’s one thing I have definitely learned: it does not work the way I imagined.| cocoaphony.micro.blog
If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
This new paper by 11 authors from organizations including IBM, Invariant Labs, ETH Zurich, Google and Microsoft is an excellent addition to the literature on prompt injection and LLM security. …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
Hi everyone - as a previous context I’m an AI Program Manager at J&J and have been using Cursor for personal projects since March. Yesterday I was migrating some of my back-end configuration from Express.js to Next.js and Cursor bugged hard after the migration - it tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself. I had to use EaseUS to try to recover the data, but didn’t work very well also. Luck...| Cursor - Community Forum
From the Zed Blog: Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.| zed.dev
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland| www.baldurbjarnason.com
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.| huggingface.co
A lot of people think LLMs are expensive to operate. That was true a couple of years ago, but these people haven't updated their views after an approximately 1000x reduction in prices over two years.| www.snellman.net
My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether| ongoing by Tim Bray
How I program with Agents| crawshaw.io
tools.simonwillison.net colophon| tools.simonwillison.net
MCP is a wire protocol that standardizes how AI agents interact with external services, enforcing single JSON schemas and deterministic execution, while traditional APIs are documentation formats describing the chaos of HTTP endpoints where data can live in paths, headers, query params, or bodies.| Glama – MCP Hosting Platform
Another bloody AI commit generator, born from pure spite but stays local| wimpysworld.com
