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Python’s new t-strings davepeck.org/2025/04/11/pyth… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://davepeck.… #programming #python

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Dave Peck's home on the web. Dave is an independent software developer, investor, and civic technologist.

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The false productivity promise of AI-assisted development paelladoc.com/blog/your-ai-p… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://paelladoc… #programming

Why AI-generated code becomes hard to maintain

Why AI-generated code becomes difficult to maintain, and which review, security and context practices reduce that risk.

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Clever code is probably the worst code you could write read.engineerscodex.com/p/cl… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://read.engi… #programming

Clever code is probably the worst code you could write

And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write

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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years zdnet.com/article/linus-torv… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://www.zdnet… #programming by @ZDNET

Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years - ZDNET

Git is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Here's why Torvalds never intended for it to stick around.

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AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink leaddev.com/culture/ai-codin… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://leaddev.c… #programming by @theleaddev

AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink

Under pressure to embrace AI, developers are growing frustrated by misguided mandates and are left to clean up any collateral damage inflicted on their codebase.

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The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer 0x1.pt/2025/04/06/the-insani… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://0x1.pt/20… #culture #practices #programming

The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer

Is something I think about often because I can’t help but wonder if most other jobs are like this.

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Sam Altman says AI will make coders 10x more productive, not replace them — Even Bill Gates claims the field is too complex windowscentral.com/software-… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://www.windo… #programming by @windowscentral

Sam Altman says AI will make coders 10x more productive, not replace them — Even Bill Gates claims...

OpenAI CEO says he plans to use artificial intelligence to make software engineers more productive, rather than replacing them.

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Rust Language (@rustlang) left Twitter, joined Bluesky archive.is/bYwYz Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://archive.i… #programming #rustlang

Rust Language on X: "You can now find us on both M​ast​o​don and Bl​u…

archived 5 Apr 2025 14:43:46 UTC

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Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcrip… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://www.cs.ut… #programming
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Quantum Computer Generates Truly Random Number in Scientific First sciencealert.com/quantum-com… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://www.scien… #programming #quantumcomputing #science by @ScienceAlert

Quantum Computer Generates Truly Random Number in Scientific First

"A pivotal milestone."

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Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/03… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://elixir-la… #elixir #programming

Cyanview: Coordinating Super Bowl's visual fidelity with Elixir

A case study of how Elixir is being used at Cyanview.

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Good-bye core types; Hello Go as we know and love it go.dev/blog/coretypes Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://go.dev/bl… #golang #programming
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Writing your own C++ standard library from scratch nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://nibbleste… #cpp #programming
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Thoughts on Quantum Computing - from a Physicist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-com… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://en.wikipe… #programming #quantumcomputing #wallstreetbets

No-communication theorem - Wikipedia

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Harvard study: Open source has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars heise.de/en/news/Harvard-stu… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://www.heise… #economy #github #opensource #programming

Harvard study: Open source has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars

Open source software is worth trillions to the economy. However, researchers warn that companies contribute too little to the development of open source tools.

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Software Development recap for week 12/2025 discu.eu/weekly/programming/… #programming Get RSS feeds and support this bot with the premium plan: discu.eu/premium
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IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol github.com/Devolutions/IronR… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://github.co… #programming #rustlang

GitHub - Devolutions/IronRDP: Rust implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

Rust implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) - Devolutions/IronRDP

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Why AI will never replace human code review graphite.dev/blog/ai-wont-re… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://graphite.… #programming by @withgraphite
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Vibe Coding is a Dangerous Fantasy nmn.gl/blog/vibe-coding-fant… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://nmn.gl/bl… #programming

Vibe Coding is a Dangerous Fantasy

Last week, X exploded when a “vibe coder” announced his SaaS was under attack.His business, built entirely with AI assistance and “zero hand-written code,” w...

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Bjarne Stroustrup: Note to the C++ standards committee members open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://www.open-… #cpp #programming
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