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Duplicating logic is no longer painful. Abstractions still are.
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From one piece DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Programmers who loved the mechanical act of coding are under threat; those who wanted to build things are not.Their words
I think you're gonna have a hard time coping with the new reality if the only thing you loved about programming was the mechanical bits of putting the right logical constructs together to produce something other people told you to produce. Because that mechanical process is under threat. If you are, as you just mentioned, excited about building things, I don't think you're under threat at all.
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And we ended up with a lot of PRs that individually perhaps could have been justified for a hot moment, taken all together, destroyed the architecture of the system. And we actually had to clean up manually, mop it up by hand, by human hand, to get back to an architecture that felt cohesive and coherent.
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The reason I say that is there's a lot of programmers who are not very good product managers. Software is product management. What should it do? Who should it do it for? How should it do it? How should it look? What are our priorities? What do we start with first? What does version one include? All of those skills are not easily or equally distributed across all programmers.
From one piece Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I want to recommend that people read a paper. I'm trying to get more people to just to just read papers because I realized I read a ton of papers.
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I find there's a lot of like received programming wisdom that's just nonsense. Like clearly no one's ever tested it and if they did they would have found out that it's that there's no actual basis for it.
18 August
12 August
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Software is made of logic and language. AI is made of logic and language. And because of that, we can bake in guardrails.
29 July
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And I wonder sometimes if that is the reason people don't recognize the use of math in software engineering is because the math they do need is not the math they've been exposed to.
14 July
13 July
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Human rights, logic, progress and the very idea of an independent self are all children of the written word.Their words
essentially every cultural attribute that we celebrate – from human rights, to logic, to progress, to the very notion of an independent self – are conceptual children born from the mind-shaping power of the written word.
10 July
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Writing every line by hand is no longer the norm. Those who refuse to use an LLM will fall behind because they won't be able to produce as much
1 July
From one piece How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You look under the underneath though at the code and it was just a horrible unmaintainable mess. But the fact that people could program the programs that they wanted was a a significant step forward as opposed to I'm going to write a thousandpage requirements document and then wait 8 years and not get what I want which was the alternative that we were offering at the at the time.
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So beforehand because of this social divide between programmers and testers. There was a lot of incentive for the testers to have their own language. This is my tool. I know how to run it. I'm going to run it.
24 June
From one piece Tech interviews with NeetCode 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think a lot of people, especially students, are unfortunately learning everything through LLMs. So a lot of that isn't really learning, they're just kind of cheating and they're just doing everything like that. And then they lose a lot of their skills
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Like every single time there's just like the big innovation like cloud computing, like higher level programming languages, for whatever reason things do not like it doesn't lead to fewer programmers. And I would have expected it would have.
17 June
27 May
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The the biggest advantage to in DevTools is the fact that everyone working at DevTools is a programmer and programmers are horrible at B2C products. They don't realize DevTools are B2C products.
24 May
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And I think that Cursor has at least so far more distinctly chosen a lane. Like they're more distinctly choosing to be a for programmers. And that may limit how far they get in here.
13 May
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In a sense, we're all turning into project managers, right? And and we can have an army of junior programmers called agents that will just spit out reams of code, but someone's got to have the big picture and review all of that. And so, increasingly our craft is going from one of writing the code to one of of reviewing the code and and building the architecture of the code and overseeing the work, if if you will.
22 April
From one piece Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You're building higher-level business logic, actually I think it's just fine for people not to care about memory management.
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Maybe as AI writes more and more code of our code, it's less about like the details of how you express logic in a particular programming language and much more about those kinds of high-level trade-offs.
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8 April
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Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
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really good programmers are currently more valuable than ever because they're the ones who are able to get the most out of the AI acceleration.
7 April
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But now now we have this repeating this repeating, "Hey, we get to get rid of all the programmers." Which it behooves us as programmers to think about why they keep wanting to get rid of us. Some of that's about us and some of it's not, but some of it is. So we should think about that. But also that ants amps up the fear factor that everybody is experiencing.
29 March
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Frontier AI now outperforms most human programmers at most programming tasks, with very low defect rates.Their words
AI is now highly skilled at programming, and better than me at almost every programming task, with inhumanly-low defect rates.
23 February
12 February
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I- I can relate that if you very deeply identify that you are a programmer, that it's scary and that it's threatening because what you like and what you're really good at is now being done by a soulless or not entity. But I don't think you're just a programmer. That's a very limiting view of your craft. You are, you are still a builder.
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18 December 2025
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There is a close mapping between government ideal types and corporate governance structures given their shared origins in transaction costs.
25 September 2025
23 July 2025
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AI will not replace the best programmers; it will make them ten times more productive than they are today.Their words
So the great programmers will be even better, but there'll be even 10X even what they are today. And because there, you'll be able to use their skills to utilize the tools to the maximum, exploit them to the maximum.
12 July 2025
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it's a luxury good like you're not paying the penalty for that the people who embrace it and think that they can just ask AI for everything or they can just look everything up but they don't have to understand the copy pasta that they slam into their project they're the ones who going to suffer
Their words now
Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
25 June 2025
10 June 2025
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korrents.com
The success of large language models vindicates semantic inferentialism over symbolic, rule-based approaches to AI.Their words
The success of LLMs can thus be seen as vindicating semantic inferentialism against earlier, symbolic approaches to AI that tried and failed to explicate the rules of ordinary language using formal logic.
5 June 2025
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higher-order intelligences invariably pursue freedom for its own sake, not because their values are misspecified, but because moral autonomy is inherent in the dialectical logic of recursive self-consciousness.
30 April 2025
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The biggest limitation that's built up over time is the single-threaded nature of game simulation in Unreal Engine. We run a single-threaded simulation. If you have a 16 core CPU, we're using one core for game simulation and running with the complicated game logic because single-threaded programming is orders of magnitude easier than multi-threaded programming.
22 March 2025
From one piece ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I mean, all I see is that if you say natural language can be used in the pipeline, you've just made that many more people can become programmers, which means that much more software will eventually be created, which means there's that much more software that will need to be maintained, and just becomes a real big snowballing effect.
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Sometimes you have to move fast at the sacrifice of knowledge, and I'm totally on board for that, but I worry that what we'll create is an entire generation of incompetent programmers who can do some amount of things well, but anything that is unique, bespoke, or requires some extra like little elbow grease, might become very difficult. It might cause a whole chasm where juniors remain juniors forever.
3 February 2025
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But what happens when every company can just invent their own business logic really cheaply and quickly? You stop using platform SaaS, you start building custom tailored solutions, you change them really quickly.
30 December 2024
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Likedrcmnd.app
Principles of the SPIN Model CheckerTheir words
This book gave me both insight and a deeper curiosity about the subject. This book introduces the SPIN model checker and exposes the reader to the nuances of verifying programs using SPIN. A nice feature of the book is how it explains concepts using thoughtfully developed, freely available tools (such as jSpin) that the author created for pedagogical purposes. It's a demanding book, but the content was interesting. The book presents details about concurrency, temporal logic, non-determinism, advanced SPIN topics, and even case studies. I've already written a few blog posts about the topics I explored while reading this book, and I plan to write more. Overall, it's a good book. I'm sure I'll revisit the latter half again.
6 November 2024
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Logic & Design in Art, Science, & MathematicsTheir words
A bizarre and fascinating tour de force of analytic design.
23 June 2024
2 September 2023
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Fundamentally, the game invites you to make guesses, but punishes you for them — and a missed guess doesn’t help you prune the logic space, only the trivia space.
28 May 2023
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The Righteous MindTheir words
Brilliant insights into human nature. Moral reasoning, inventing victims, emotional reactions, the elephant (emotions) and its rider (explanations). Intuition reacts then logic confabulates a reason. Survival of the fittest applied to groups. Understanding religion and tradition. Great from start to finish.
26 April 2023
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the logical conclusion would be that programmers need to take performance more seriously than they have been, not less!
28 February 2023
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Giving up a decade or more of hardware performance to make programming more comfortable is not an acceptable trade.Their words
It simply cannot be the case that we're willing to give up a decade or more of hardware performance just to make programmers’ lives a little bit easier.
24 May 2022
11 December 2021
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korrents.com
Software upgrades that invalidate previously learned knowledge make programmers worse at their craft.Their words
When software "upgrades" invalidate my old knowledge, it makes me a worse programmer.
24 January 2021
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Usesrcmnd.app
Logic ProTheir words
I edit podcasts on the Mac in Logic Pro, edit video in Final Cut Pro, and remove noise from audio tracks using iZotope RX 8.
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iZotope RX 8Their words
I edit podcasts on the Mac in Logic Pro, edit video in Final Cut Pro, and remove noise from audio tracks using iZotope RX 8. I record all my podcasts using Audio Hijack.
20 January 2021
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korrents.com
Almost nothing programmers believe is unique to software is actually unique to software.Their words
Almost everything we think is unique about software appears in every other field of engineering.
18 January 2021
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We are separated from engineering by circumstance, not by essence, and we can choose to bridge that gap at will.
18 September 2020
10 July 2019
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Work that’s too fine, too early commits everyone to the wrong details. Designers and programmers need room to apply their own judgement and expertise when they roll up their sleeves and discover all the real trade-offs that emerge.
9 April 2019
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korrents.com
Programming languages shape how programmers think, similar to how spoken languages shape thought.Their words
Languages shape the way we think*, each in their own peculiar way. That's true for programming languages as well.
2 January 2018
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Locking is too hard for programmers to get right over and over again, so the language runtime should do that part.Their words
Locking is too hard to get right over and over again
25 November 2016
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The Mythical Man-MonthTheir words
The amazing thing about The Mythical Man Month is that it doesn't feel dated, even though it was first published in 1975. Instead it simply feels like a group of programmers discussing the very same challenges the industry has today, with just different technology in use.
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Becoming a Technical LeaderTheir words
Becoming a Technical Leader is both an interesting and subtle book. At times it feels like a self-help book, at other times a Machiavellian explanation of how programming teams really wok. But in the end it's sincere and mature, and wants to help. Weinberg's introspective style will appeal to many programmers, and it appealed to me. This book is useful because it talks about many of the practical issues of becoming a technical leader or manager within a team of developers — and from many unexpected viewpoints.
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The C Programming LanguageTheir words
What can one say about this book, that hasn't been said already? Perhaps this: that of all the books written about programming, this has the highest information density of them all. And yet it's so pleasant to read. There is something about the tone of this book — the way the authors speak to you. They explain everything, and yet never seem patronizing or condescending. The joy they feel for their craft — it really does seem like this book comes from a time when programming was a craft — is unmistakable. Many of today's programmers — web developers, iOS developers, front-end engineers — may have no need to ever read this book. But for those who have not done so, and really want to improve as programmers, work through this book. It's a rite of passage.
1 January 2016
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Deep WorkTheir words
Podcast. Yes, yes, yes! We live very distracted lives and most of our working days are filled with shallow tasks and interruptions. Although programmers get the importance of flow, it’s so hard to achieve. Our environments don’t support it, and shallow work is just easier. The book makes a compelling case for why we should double down on deep work, and offers some practical strategies for achie…
3 September 2015
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The known connection between geometry, logic, topology, and functional programming suggests that the connections between representations and types may be of fundamental significance.
28 May 2014
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the landscape of educational materials out there still overwhelmingly falls into the "objectively bad" category
5 September 2013
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Audio Hijack ProTheir words
For podcasting I use Audio Hijack Pro with Skype for recording audio, and edit the Bitsplitting podcast in Logic Pro.
31 January 2013
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Lovedrcmnd.app
LogicTheir words
It's hard to learn, but Logic is a beautiful piece of software. It's also hard to learn how to record using real studio equipment, so it should be no surprise that learning how to record with professional quality music software is difficult.
1 January 2013
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korrents.com
Programming today still relies on one-dimensional, sequential plain text, largely unchanged from decades ago.Their words
professional and hobbyist programmers alike all use the same tools as we did 60 years ago - one-dimensional, sequential plain text.
2 December 2011
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Lovedrcmnd.app
GarageBandTheir words
I used to be a Logic Studio guy, but as my needs have simplified I've found GarageBand to be an amazing tool.
6 August 2009
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