Programming

A good test of engineering team maturity is how well you can absorb junior talent https://thoughtfuleng.substack.com/p/junior-developers-in-the-age-of-ai https://redd.it/1qcw37d @programmingreddit

Ken Thompson rewrote his code in real-time. A federal court said he co-created MP3. So why has no one heard of James D. Johnston? https://substack.com/home/post/p-184599371 https://redd.it/1qd3mko @programmingreddit

How a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap https://questdb.com/blog/jvm-current-thread-user-time/ https://redd.it/1qcjd0w @programmingreddit

LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick https://tomrenner.com/posts/400-year-confidence-trick/ https://redd.it/1qci8z5 @programmingreddit

I let the internet vote on what code gets merged. Here's what happened in Week 1. https://blog.openchaos.dev/posts/week-1-the-first-merge https://redd.it/1qbwc7t @programmingreddit

Your estimates take longer than expected, even when you account for them taking longer — Parkinson's & Hofstadter's Laws https://l.perspectiveship.com/re-plla https://redd.it/1qbpqbo @programmingreddit

YAML? That’s Norway problem https://lab174.com/blog/202601-yaml-norway/ https://redd.it/1qaroyn @programmingreddit

AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/ https://redd.it/1qa4tl6 @programmingreddit

Thanks AI! - Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure, about AI https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f https://redd.it/1qa0ujk @programmingreddit

Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t. https://www.chrisgregori.dev/opinion/code-is-cheap-now-software-isnt https://redd.it/1q9adyo @programmingreddit

Vibe coding needs git blame https://quesma.com/blog/vibe-code-git-blame/ https://redd.it/1q9cyxz @programmingreddit

I got tired of “TODO: remove later” turning into permanent production code, so I built this https://github.com/jobin-404/debtbomb https://redd.it/1q96nar @programmingreddit

LLMs have burned Billions but couldn't build another Tailwind https://omarabid.com/tailwind-ai https://redd.it/1q93k2q @programmingreddit

The 1MB Password: Crashing Backends via Hashing Exhaustion https://instatunnel.my/blog/the-1mb-password-crashing-backends-via-hashing-exhaustion https://redd.it/1q8vptv @programmingreddit

Replit boss: CEOs can vibe code their own prototypes and don't have to beg engineers for help anymore https://share.google/CPwNzKaB0G5UADxXN https://redd.it/1q8vm5v @programmingreddit

You probably don't need Oh My Zsh https://rushter.com/blog/zsh-shell/ https://redd.it/1q88buy @programmingreddit

A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/02/a-new-worst-coder-has-entered-the-chat-vibe-coding-without-code-knowledge/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter&lid=pbpw8ug89ujl https://redd.it/1q76au3 @programmingreddit

IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ibm-ai-(-bob-)-downloads-and-executes-malware https://redd.it/1q7kf5w @programmingreddit

Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades https://redd.it/1q7im8l @programmingreddit

Linus Torvalds: "The AI slop issue is *NOT* going to be solved with documentation" https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Linux-Kernel-AI-Slop https://redd.it/1q79w2u @programmingreddit