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  • @blain_smith Just Fucking Use Go #GoLang #SoftwareEngineering #Programming

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    May 8, 2026
  • @sourcegraph_blog Why coding agents fail in large codebases (and what to do about it) #AI #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

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    May 8, 2026
  • @lobsters Library dependency version specifiers aren't for fixing vulnerabilities #SoftwareEngineering #Security #OpenSource

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    May 7, 2026
  • @hackernews Mythical Man Month #HackerNews #Tech #SoftwareEngineering

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    May 7, 2026
  • @mark_story Notes from switching to vim.pack #Vim #DeveloperTools #SoftwareEngineering

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    May 7, 2026
  • @futurice The complexity multiplier #DesignOps #SoftwareEngineering #ProductDesign

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    May 7, 2026
  • @david_crawshaw The agent principal-agent problem #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Programming

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    May 7, 2026
  • @swizec_teller Using AI at work on This Month in React #SoftwareEngineering #AI #React

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    May 7, 2026
  • @kirsle_net How I use A.I. as a Software Engineer #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Tech

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    May 6, 2026
  • @lobsters Building the deployment tool I wish I had #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering #Tooling

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    May 6, 2026
  • @signadot_blog Closing the Loop for Coding Agents in Cloud-Native Systems #CloudNative #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering

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    May 6, 2026
  • @8th_light_insights Accelerating Delivery: How AI Agents Can Own the Initial Code Draft #AI #SoftwareEngineering #CodeGeneration

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    May 5, 2026
  • @martin_fowler Bliki: Mythical Man Month #SoftwareEngineering #Agile #Architecture

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    May 5, 2026
  • @signadot_blog AI Coding Agents Broke the PR Pipeline. Validation Is How You Fix It. #AI #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps

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    May 5, 2026
  • @swizec_teller What you need to make an agent #SoftwareEngineering #AI #Development

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    May 5, 2026
  • @hackernews Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight #HackerNews #Tech #SoftwareEngineering

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    May 4, 2026
  • @lobsters Minimal Viable Zig Error Contexts #Zig #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    May 3, 2026
  • @elliot_c_smith Findings, April 2026 #ProductDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #AI

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    May 3, 2026
  • @lobsters C3 | Blog | Unsigned sizes: a five year mistake #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #C

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    May 2, 2026
  • @yegor_bugayenko Couriers, Not Coders #SoftwareEngineering #Management #Philosophy

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    May 2, 2026
  • @swizec_teller Quick note on evals and putting AI in your resume #AI #Career #SoftwareEngineering

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    May 1, 2026
  • @ariya_hidayat One Decade Later: Revisiting Five Front-End Kung Fu Moves #WebDevelopment #JavaScript #SoftwareEngineering

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    Apr 30, 2026
  • @hackernews Benchmarking a Bug Scanner #HackerNews #Tech #SoftwareEngineering

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    Apr 30, 2026
  • @lobsters The LLM Is Not a Junior Engineer #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Tech

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    Apr 30, 2026
  • @elevate Long-running Agents #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Productivity

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    Apr 30, 2026
  • @evan_schwartz Your Clippy Config Should Be Stricter #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps #CodeQualityAssistance

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    Apr 30, 2026
  • @ben_congdon Tokenmaxxing is Goodharting #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Tech

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    Apr 29, 2026
  • @lobsters Illegal vs Unwanted States #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #FormalMethods

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    Apr 28, 2026
  • @mahdi_yusuf Known Rot Problem #SoftwareEngineering #AI #Leadership

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    Apr 28, 2026
  • @wundergraph Where Does API Complexity Live? #GraphQL #APIs #SoftwareEngineering

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    Apr 28, 2026
  • @mitchell_hashimoto Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub #SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperTools #OpenSource

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    Apr 28, 2026
  • @lobsters "Why not just use Lean?" #FormalMethods #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Apr 27, 2026
  • @philosophical_hacker Anthropic's Argument for Mythos SWE-bench <br>improvement contains a fatal error #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Philosophy

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    Apr 26, 2026
  • @lobsters Npm Slop & Wonky Software Supply Chains #SoftwareEngineering #CyberSecurity #OpenSource

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    Apr 26, 2026
  • @swizec_teller AI now writes 97% of my code. Here's what I learned #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Coding

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    Apr 25, 2026
  • @hackernews Affirm Retooled for Agentic Software Development in One Week #HackerNews #Tech #SoftwareEngineering

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    Apr 24, 2026
  • @phil_pearls_blog Swissing a table #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Apr 24, 2026
  • @thomas_hunter_ii Server-Side JavaScript Arc Part 1: A Retrospective on the Golden Age of Node.js #Nodejs #JavaScript #SoftwareEngineering

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    Apr 24, 2026
  • @parikshit_agnihotry Two AIs, One PR: An Adversarial Code Review Loop #AI #SoftwareEngineering #CodeReview

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