The Reality of AI Coding Tools: A Staff Engineer’s Honest Assessment of Claude Code Senior developers share candid experiences with AI coding assistants, revealing both productivity gains and significant …
Building an iOS Podcast Player with Racket: A Functional Programming Approach to Mobile Development A developer has created a fully-featured iOS podcast app using Racket, proving that functional programming languages can …
MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline A claimed MIT study on AI’s cognitive effects sparks debate about whether AI tools represent genuine abstraction or create dependency that …
How I Use My Terminal A developer’s terminal workflow sparks debate about the value of custom configurations versus embracing software defaults and their historical reasoning. The discussion reveals deep …
Functions Are Vectors (2023) Exploring how functions can be understood as infinite-dimensional vectors enables the application of linear algebra tools to functional analysis problems. This mathematical insight reveals …
Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data (2024) Modeling polymorphic data in relational databases presents fundamental challenges that reveal the limitations of traditional SQL approaches. The classic example of …
Gemini 2.0 Disrupts PDF Processing: From 12 Minutes to 6 Seconds Fintech company replaces specialized OCR vendor with Gemini, achieving dramatic speed improvements and cost savings while sparking debate about AI’s …
AI Personality Quirks: From Claude’s Cheerfulness to Gemini’s Brutal Honesty Discussion of Gemini CLI file deletion incident reveals fascinating differences in AI personality traits and their unexpected …
The Great Vibecoding Debate: Do Typed Languages Really Help AI Programming? Article claiming typed languages are better for AI-assisted coding sparks heated debate about developer competence and LLM effectiveness. …
Claude Code Experimentation Sparks Debate Over AI’s Accessibility Barriers Enthusiastic article about letting Claude Code run wild on a VPS triggers discussion about whether AI coding creates new economic barriers …
