We’re finally writing code in plain english, understandable to maybe half the population (at some level).. but apparently that code doesn’t belong in the version-controlled record of work, nor in the group chat? thankfully @maggieappleton.com has solutions
Maggie Appleton
It's multiplayer chats, plus agents, and everyone working in sandboxed vms so you're all sharing the same code and context. Prompt and code together, in real time. You're all connected to the same computer. You can all see the same outputs. No one is stashing work and switching git branches.
Apr 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Why Can’t Programmers... Program?
I was incredulous when I read this observation from Reginald Braithwaite: Like me, the author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can’t write code at all. I repeat: they can’t write any code whatsoever. The author he’s
Gergely Orosz on Twitter / X
This is either brilliant or scary:Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA.BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down! pic.twitter.com/uSrCDgGCAZ— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) March 31, 2026
Code Is Cheap Now, And That Changes Everything | Pere Villega
AI coding agents have made code production nearly free. Drawing on insights from Kent Beck, Paul Ford, and Simon Willison, this post argues that the value has shifted from writing code to defining systems — contracts, invariants, SLAs, and verification.
Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities
Opinion: Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code.
Stay away from my trash!
If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file
512,000 lines of code that competitors and hobbyists will be studying for weeks.
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee
This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more
Pluralistic: It’s extremely good that Claude’s source-code leaked (02 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code – the company's flagship coding assistant product – has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties:
Is all code becoming the same? On one hand, 95% of Kaggle submissions that set a random seed now use 42 (a Hitchhiker's Guide joke LLMs love). But, it turns out that while coding syntax is converging, approaches to problems are not converging. Human prompters drive real variety in solutions.
