--no-rollback (Reflections on technology and software development in an era dominated by artificial intelligence.)

Reflections on technology and software development in an era dominated by artificial intelligence.

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  • Programming with agents: what to learn, and in what order

    Rubén S.

    A study guide in eight levels. It starts with reading someone else's code and ends with deciding what you don't delegate.

  • How we ended up programming without writing code

    Rubén S.

    From autocomplete to agents: seven years of tooling told through what we gave up rather than what shipped. Every new name for the craft announced a task the human would stop doing.

  • The cost of writing was quality control

    Rubén S.

    For decades, how expensive software was to produce is what kept software reviewable. Agents have removed that limit from every artifact at once, including the ones we invented to keep the previous ones in check.

  • Bun rewrote a million lines from Zig to Rust in eleven days

    Rubén S.

    At a moment when nobody yet knows how to review that much AI-generated code, Bun's answer — automate the review too — collides head-on with Zig's, which had banned exactly that kind of contribution months earlier as "invariably garbage."

  • Agent harness, or everything that is not the model

    Rubén S.

    In six months, "harness" has gone from internal jargon to the word that organises the whole sector. Behind the rebrand sits a number that is hard to ignore: the environment around the model explains more variance in the outcome than the model itself.