Programming

LLVM considering an AI tool policy, AI bot for fixing build system breakage proposed https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-AI-Tool-Policy-RFC https://redd.it/1ptwvch @programmingreddit

How 12 comparisons can make integer sorting 30x faster https://github.com/Cranot/tieredsort https://redd.it/1pu5bxm @programmingreddit

Lua 5.5 released with declarations for global variables, garbage collection improvements https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lua-5.5-Released https://redd.it/1pt5gc0 @programmingreddit

Programming Books I'll be reading in 2026. https://sushantdhiman.substack.com/p/cs-books-ill-be-reading-in-2026 https://redd.it/1pswvem @programmingreddit

Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/clever-code/ https://redd.it/1psp399 @programmingreddit

PatchworkOS Is a From-Scratch OS That Follows 'Everything Is a File' More Strictly than UNIX: An Overview of Sockets, Spawning Processes, and Notes (Signals) https://github.com/KaiNorberg/PatchworkOS https://redd.it/1ps3he5 @programmingreddit

Jeff and Sanjay's code performance tips https://abseil.io/fast/hints.html https://redd.it/1prvhfl @programmingreddit

i wrote a code editor in C and now i'm a changed man https://github.com/thisismars-x/light https://redd.it/1pre7mw @programmingreddit

Google's boomerang year: 20% of AI software engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/google-boomerang-year-20percent-ai-software-devs-hired-2025-ex-employees.html https://redd.it/1prgwty @programmingreddit

Microsoft to move away from C/C++ to Rust using AI assisted coding https://www.linkedin.com/posts/galenh_principal-software-engineer-coreai-microsoft-activity-7407863239289729024-WTzf https://redd.it/1pqulm0 @programmingreddit

AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html https://redd.it/1pqodkn @programmingreddit

I found the stupidest take on Vibe Coding https://www.designgurus.io/blog/vibe-coding-guide?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23163907085&gbraid=0AAAAADME9yrwhh3Pn4emui6N9e6TSIGXY&gclid=Cj0KCQiAjJTKBhCjARIsAIMC4496p8jeDlvlPl7NzYAKygn6pb3Uu8ETEcUnO-OXzcajV4U6-B0Ec9IaAi2FEALw_wcB https://redd.it/1pql7bw @programmingreddit

How Apollo 11’s onboard software handled overloads in real time lessons from Margaret Hamilton’s work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_%28software_engineer%29 https://redd.it/1pq2sdq @programmingreddit

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/ https://redd.it/1ppzixe @programmingreddit

GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/github_charge_dev_own_hardware/?td=rt-3a https://redd.it/1ppzbqx @programmingreddit

AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-generation-report https://redd.it/1ppm5vd @programmingreddit

Security vulnerability found in Rust Linux kernel code. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=3e0ae02ba831da2b707905f4e602e43f8507b8cc https://redd.it/1ppai1u @programmingreddit

MI6 (British Intelligence equivalent to the CIA) will be requiring new agents to learn how to code in Python. Not only that, but they're widely publicizing it. https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/mi6_chief_well_be_as/ https://redd.it/1poqn8v @programmingreddit

AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers https://redd.it/1pou327 @programmingreddit

ty, a fast Python type checker by the uv devs, is now in beta https://astral.sh/blog/ty https://redd.it/1pokx5j @programmingreddit