Understanding is the new bottleneck

Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.

Understanding is the new bottleneck

Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.

Understanding is the new bottleneck

Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.

Using AI to write better code more slowly

A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But t…

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

AI vs human code gen report: AI code creates 1.7x more issues

We analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, using CodeRabbit’s structured issue taxonomy and found that AI generated code creates 1.7x more issues.

AI Coding Agent Benchmarks & Leaderboard | Artificial Analysis

We measure real-world performance of coding agents on software engineering tasks, including cost, token usage, and execution time. We compare how performance changes across agents, models, and execution settings.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly. We're not quite at the point where we want to write everything in assembly, but some variant of what Nolan Lawson said about testing, you can choose how many bugs you want now, which I less eloquently noted here, is becoming more true for performance.

AI Makes Better Software

Don't use AI to ship software faster. Use it to ship better software.

The Biggest Advance in AI Since the LLM

Claude Code isn’t AGI or even close, but it is an impressive and possibly game-changing “coding agent” for programmers to write code faster that is arguably the single biggest advance in AI since the LLM.

What AI coding costs you | Tom Wojcik

What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

Amir Zandieh, Research Scientist, and Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research

Rust Is Winning the AI Code Generation Race

I’ve been generating a lot of code with AI agents lately. Most of it in Rust, and nice about it is that it consistently better than what I…