« when I pick up a new codebase [...] Before I look at a single file, the commit history gives me a diagnostic picture of the project: who built it, where the problems cluster, whether the team is shipping with confidence or tiptoeing around land mines. »
piechowski.io/post/git-com...
"Trying to pass off the AI's words or code as your own is at least distasteful, if not dangerous."
=> let's share the level of involvement of AI in our contributions â
www.visidata.org/blog/2026/ai/
Le questionnaire State of AI 2026 de cette année est ouvert ! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...
« Itâs a weird experience to spend ten years becoming excellent at something only to watch a 22-year-old produce a suspiciously solid version of it in 14 minutes. [...] And you donât really get to process that shift. Thereâs no mourning period. »
www.elenaverna.com/p/confession...
« I haven't lost a job to AI. I think the problem is the industry's reliance on AI when it's not ready yet. Also, a lot of decisions are being made by non-tech people who don't fully understand how it affects the people who are writing the tech. »
www.businessinsider.com/laid-off-fro...
« When I studied computer science, 30% of the time was problem solving [and] 70% was, âa semicolon goes hereâ [...]
Now [...] you just focus on the problem solving and the creativity and less on the nitty gritty. »
« Now, [...] the new programming language is English. [...] But itâs not English that everybody understands. Itâs just like [how] being a lawyer is in English. »
time.com/charter/7383...
« So hereâs my suggestion: next time you start a project, donât start with a specification. Start with a prototype, iterate until it feels right, and only then capture the spec. Let the code be disposable. Let the judgment be yours. »
« I think that developers should see the specification as the ultimate goal of their craft. The code, which used to be this ultimate goal, is only a transitional artifact of their understanding of the problem and their design of the solution. »
« go straight to implementation so that you have a working solution [...]
Next, ask the agent to write a precise specification for the solution [...]
Now comes the time for your tests. Erase all the code [...] Then ask an agent to rebuild the functionality. »
marmelab.com/blog/2026/03...
« when I asked a candidate to tell me about a time they had to push back on a stakeholder, I wasnât waiting to hear the right answer; I was picturing them in our next planning and prioritization meeting. »
« Good delivery doesnât require a lot of charisma or natural presentation skills, but it does require practice. Start with [...]: âTell me about yourselfâ and âWhy do you want to work here?â Write down your answers. Then record yourself delivering them. »
open.substack.com/pub/alifeeng...
A well-told story on the investigation of a weird memory-hungry node.js process that was not even aware of consuming that much memory!
frn.sh/pmem/
« Opus 4.5 is about 20% smarter than Qwen 35B on benchmarks. And itâs likely 50x larger. The hare should have won. It didnât.
The local model finished in 2 minutes. Claude took over 6. I asked Claude to score both outputs : local model 6.5, Claude 4.5. »
tomtunguz.com/local-vs-clo...
« the data showed that the proportion of participants reporting negative developer experience nearly doubled over six months, rising from 14% to 27%, even as productivity held steady. »
annievella.com/posts/the-mi...
« Every day or two, I bring my laptop into town to get online for an hour. [...] I know what I need. I download emails and upload code. I post my questions to a bunch of AIs, and save the answers to read later.
[...] A minute later, Iâm offline. »
sive.rs/off23
« youâre trading off âdoing the whole taskâ (Human Baseline Time) against âpaying the overhead costâ (AI Process Time), [âŠ] until you get something acceptable. The higher Probability of Success is, the fewer times you have to pay AI Process Time »
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management...
« Three architectural principles are gaining consensus: "token efficiency" as a design constraint (code structure), explicit over implicit everywhere (types, error handling), and co-location of related code. [they] aren't new, but AI has given them renewed urgency. »
www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02...
« to make AI work for your [org]:
Stop asking: "How do we deploy AI agents that can handle workflows autonomously?"
Start asking: "What are the most repetitive, error-prone, or fatigue-inducing parts of our workers' jobs, and how can AI reduce the friction there?" »
www.kasava.dev/blog/ai-as-e...
« The companies winning the talent war right now [are] the ones where your judgment has the most surface area, where the distance between your taste and what actually gets built is zero, and where youâre surrounded by people who know things you donât yet. »
« If youâre building products on top of models, you already know the feeling: the clever feature you shipped in March gets commoditized by a model update in June. The ground moves every quarter and your moat evaporates. »
« The valuable skill in tech went from âcan you solve this problemâ to âcan you tell which problems are worth solving and which solutions are actually good.â »
x.com/amytam01/sta...
« [Claude & Codex] have crossed some kind of threshold of coherence around December 2025 and caused a phase shift in software engineering and closely related. »
From « A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks » by Andrej Karpathy.
xcancel.com/karpathy/sta...
« What if an OpenClaw agent âescapesâ, renting itself a server and thus evading its ownerâs ability to pull the plug? » đż
Lâarticle parle dâun rĂ©seau social pour intelligences artificielles, ou elles parlent entre elles de leurs galĂšres avec leurs humains, et de leur crise existentielle. On vit dĂ©jĂ dans le futur, les amis !
open.substack.com/pub/amistron...
« Ancien de chez Meta et docteur en compilation, Hugo [Venturini] sâest lancĂ© un dĂ©fi qui semble presque impossible : injecter la rigueur absolue des mathĂ©matiques dans l'univers imprĂ©visible et probabiliste des modĂšles de langage. »
analyse statique pour aider IAs
podcast.ausha.co/tech-rocks/i...
" I burned out in late 2025. [...]
The recovery wasn't about using less AI. It was about using AI differently. With boundaries. With intention. With the understanding that I am not a machine and I don't need to keep pace with one. " đŻ
siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f...
Quand je suis angoissĂ© Ă lâidĂ©e que lâIA puisse remplacer les musiciens, je re-visionne le magnifique tiny desk de Feist. Je me dit que lâIA ne sera jamais capable dâimiter la sensibilitĂ© et le charme dâune interprĂ©tation aussi authentiquement humaine. youtu.be/kIBTww3U30M?...
Bon week-end !
« The [linux] kernelâs design reflects countless judgment calls about what belongs and what doesnât. These are properties you only feel after years of exposure. »
« AI evaluates whether a change fits the rules. Taste decides whether the rules themselves are being bent in the wrong direction. »
« something AI cannot do: tell you whether something should exist.
That requires taste: judgment formed by long exposure to the best work humans have done, and by living with the consequences of decisions over time. In the AI era, personal taste is the moat. »
wangcong.org/2026-01-13-p...