The Workers Letting A.I. Do Their Jobs

This episode of The Daily from NYT explains to a non-tech audience how AI is reshaping software development. Really well explained, and a refreshing perspective. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/p...

The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive.

In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!

DDoS'ing the human brain AI made us mass produce code at a scale we never could before. More code, more problems, same brain. Somehow I'm more productive and more exhausted at the same time.

Some thoughts about AI-assisted coding and how it affects my brain. I'm more productive and more exhausted at the same time.

marvinh.dev/blog/ddosing...

Comprehension Debt - the hidden cost of AI generated code.

Interesting article on a hidden cost of AI development: comprehension debt. “no one on the team could explain why design decisions had been made or how different parts of the system were supposed to work together. The theory of the system had evaporated.” addyosmani.com/blog/compreh...

This is not the AI we were promised | The Royal Society YouTube video by The Royal Society

This is a fantastic lecture given recently at the Royal Society on how LLMs work and their fundamental flaws. Well worth watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyyL...

Opinion | The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived

Gift link (hope it works) for the @ftrain.bsky.social NY Times piece on the impact of post-November-2025 coding agents (like Claude Code) on the cost of developing software - it's very worth a read www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Highly recommend this podcast with @booch.com. A tour of the history of software engineering, similar to some of my recent articles and posts. Plus, at least he has a positive outlook for the profession

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

"I shipped code I don't understand and I bet you have too" – Jake Nations, Netflix YouTube video by AI Engineer

This is a great talk from an Engineer at Netflix. Easy is not the same as simple. Taking the easy path and relying on AI to generate code without understanding it can result in a codebase full of accidental complexity that is difficult to understand and reason about.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIoo...

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

“dishallucinment” maybe? 😄

There should be a word for that feeling of disappointment after using an LLM to solve a tricky problem, and it sounding completely confident… only to find out it really has no clue.

Home | Commodore

We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299

The Fundamentals of Computer Science Introduction The year was 1998. Google had just been founded, offering a significantly better search experience. Microsoft had become the biggest company in the world, and the web was rapidly becoming a part of everyday life. It was also my first yea...

A couple of years ago I gave a talk at the Christchurch Ruby meetup on the fundamentals of computer science. I’ve finally turned that talk into a blog post. Better late than never! Read it here: timross.info/fundamentals... Any feedback is welcome 😊

Wait… Who’s the New CEO of Commodore?! • Let's Buy Commodore Part 2 YouTube video by Retro Recipes x Commodore

We're buying *Commodore* and bringing it back! (you KNOW I'm gonna get involved somehow!) Check out the announce! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-A...

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

Awesome! Congrats on the new role. Would be great to finally meet you in person 😄 There’s a nice dev community up here.

@kentbeck.com is a legend in software engineering: and after coding for 52 years, he's never had more fun than now, he told me. Why? AI agents brought back the joy of creating software without the stuff that he's started to hate about coding.

Watch/listen:

• YouTube: youtu.be/aSXaxOdVtAQ (cont'd)

Apple Liquid Glass feels very gimicky. Just because devices can now handle advanced lens effects doesn’t mean it should be used everywhere. Does it improve the usability? Remember skeuomorphic stitched leather? 😄

Yeah, cabin-fever quickly sets in for me. 😄 Love the flexibility of split co-working and WFH tho.

A hastily sketched graph of programmer salaries on the X axis, and # of programmers on the Y axis, with two lines: a "before" distribution and an "after" distribution. The "before" distribution has a higher average salary, but there are less of them. The "after" distribution includes the entire "before" but is much larger, although with a lower average.

I wrote up some thoughts about the effect of AI on programmer salaries: seldo.com/posts/ai-eff...

A photo of the cover of the re-issued Usborne Book of The Future, first published in 1979.

Excited to see what the future looks like in the year 2000 and beyond. Peace and prosperity for all, surely 😅