by gergely-orosz
Programming language choice matters more in the AI era, not less — AI code generation quality varies dramatically by target language, and the runtime tradeoffs a language imposes don't disappear just because a machine writes the code.
by lenny-rachitsky
Coding is a solved problem — the bottleneck shifts to taste, product sense, and deciding what to build. Boris Cherny makes the case that underfunding teams, betting on general models, and building for the model six months out is how you win.
by alistair-gray
The competitive moat in coding agents isn't the model — it's the orchestration layer. Stripe's Blueprints prove that mixing deterministic workflows with agentic flexibility, backed by 500 MCP tools, scales autonomous coding to 1,300+ PRs per week.
by sarah-perez
Spotify's best engineers stopped writing code entirely — their internal 'Honk' system built on Claude Code lets them ship features from Slack on their phones, signaling that AI coding has crossed from experiment to default workflow at scale.
by alistair-gray
Stripe's coding agents produce 1,000+ merged PRs per week by combining isolated devboxes, a customized Goose fork, MCP with 400+ internal tools, and aggressive feedback-left testing — proving that enterprise-scale autonomous coding demands custom infrastructure, not off-the-shelf solutions.
by gergely-orosz
Every major abstraction shift in software engineering has triggered the same existential crisis among developers, and each time the industry expanded rather than contracted — the current AI shift is no different.
by mia-heidenstedt
Developers who treat AI as an autonomous coder lose control of their codebase—effective AI collaboration requires explicit architectural decisions, layered verification systems, and human-written specification tests that resist shortcuts.
by claire-vo, john-lindquist
Pre-loaded context via mermaid diagrams and automated stop hooks are the two highest-leverage investments senior engineers can make to get reliable output from AI coding tools.
by lewis-metcalf
Effective human-agent collaboration requires making problems feedback-loopable: build playgrounds for shared exploration, parameterize experiments for reproducibility, and provide headless CLI tools so agents can iterate in text rather than pixels.
by ryan-lopopolo
When AI agents write all the code, engineering shifts from authoring to harness design—crafting navigable documentation, mechanical enforcement, and feedback loops that keep autonomous agents productive across thousands of pull requests.
by alexander-opalic
A curated learning path for developers who want to master AI-assisted coding, from basic autocomplete to autonomous agents.
by steve-yegge, gene-kim
IDEs and single-agent tools like Claude Code are transitional—the future belongs to swarms of specialized agents, CNC-style automation, and leaders who code their own solutions.
by github
GitHub's official collection of community-contributed customizations—agents, prompts, instructions, and skills—for extending Copilot's capabilities across domains and workflows.
A collection of notes on AI-assisted coding in VS Code, covering GitHub Copilot, Agent Skills, context engineering, and development environments.
by mattpocockuk
AI coding agents working autonomously need feedback loops to verify their own work—TypeScript for type errors, Vitest for logic bugs, and Husky to enforce both before every commit.
by joao-moreno
A client-side search engine built entirely in Rust and WebAssembly can deliver sub-millisecond queries without external dependencies—Copilot made the unfamiliar stack approachable.
Normalized Distance from Main Sequence (D) identifies structurally poor code by measuring how far components deviate from the ideal balance of abstractness and stability—making it the single best metric for detecting AI-generated code that compiles but rots.
by simon-willison
Reasoning models have made LLM-generated code undeniably good, and 2026 will bring both a major security incident from coding agents and the resolution of the sandboxing problem.
by antonio-erdeljac
A complete project walkthrough for building a Cursor-like AI code editor using Next.js 16, React, and Convex as the backend—demonstrating how to combine modern web technologies with AI capabilities.
by burke-holland
AI coding agents can replace developers for many tasks—Claude Opus 4.5's self-correction capabilities make human code review increasingly optional.
by alexander-opalic
AI accelerates routine tasks but lacks architectural judgment—the future belongs to high-agency generalists who identify problems and drive solutions without waiting for direction.
by geoffrey-huntley
Open-source sustainability is the real crisis, not AI code generation—companies benefit from free software but rarely compensate maintainers, and reframing sponsorship as marketing could fund the infrastructure everything depends on.
by simon-willison
Effective LLM-assisted programming demands deliberate skills—context management, authoritarian specifications, and rigorous testing—that amplify expertise rather than replace it.