Throw away code
What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This
The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.
What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This
The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.
Stay away from my trash!
If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?
Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.
“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.
Coding Is Dead, Long Live Programming — Ian Cooper - Staccato Signals
Summary In this post, we argue that the role of a coder now belongs to a coding agent, but that the distinct role of a programmer define...
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - …
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Provisional Guidance for Users of LLM-Based Code Generators
available intuition for avoiding big risks
The Best Code is No Code At All
Rich Skrenta writes that code is our enemy. Code is bad. It rots. It requires periodic maintenance. It has bugs that need to be found. New features mean old code has to be adapted. The more code you have, the more places there are for bugs to hide. The longer
Software development is a losers game
Great code doesn’t save you, but bad code will kill you #HoskWisdom
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.
How to Kill the Code Review
Human-written code died in 2025. Code reviews will die in 2026.
Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
A sufficiently detailed spec is code begins with this lovely comic:
