The Return of Language-Oriented Programming | Middle of Nowhere
I’ve been wondering what LLMs mean for language design and implementation. Some believe that, because language models are obviously trained on existing content, they are inherently less capable of assisting users with new programming languages. Intuitively this makes sense. However:
The Myth of Deterministic Software
How I've come to terms with LLM non-determinism in software and abandoned the comforting lies we've been telling ourselves about traditional software.
If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms
I think this recent post by AI industry CEO Matt Shumer is worth a read. In it, he basically explains how quickly LLMs (large language models) are evolving to supplant many developers and prog…
Why craft-lovers are losing their craft
Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
LLMs Are Accelerating the Open Source Sustainability Crisis
Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS, has been speaking about how LLMs have made his project more popular than ever…while also making it fall apart financially, causing him to fire 75% of his engineers. “I think AI is a huge reason why our business is struggling, even though it’s making Tailwind more popular than ever.” — Adam Wathan (12:03) How is this possible? A major cause is that LLMs are blocking Tailwind’s creators and users from forming a relationship with each other.
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
LLMs as Collaborators in Language Specification and Design (PLSS 2026) - SPLASH/ISSTA 2026
Workshop on Programming Language Standardization and Specification This workshop aims to foster cross-pollination between researchers and industry professionals with experience in programming language specification and standardization. It provides a forum where participants can share insights, case studies, and best practices, and collaboratively explore solutions to current challenges. The goal of the workshop is to improve the collective understanding of how programming languages are specified, standardized, and evolved in practice. The workshop examines specifications as the foundation ...
One year as an AI Engineer: The 5 biggest misconceptions about LLM reliability I've encountered
535 votes, 59 comments. After spending a year building evaluation frameworks and debugging production LLM systems, I've noticed the same…
Compiling knowledge, not retrieving it: a hands-on deep dive into llm-wiki-compiler
The thesis of this piece is simple and uncomfortable: the problem of making an LLM “remember” what you’ve read isn’t solved with more…
Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors
LLMs have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in reasoning, insights, and tool use, but chaining these abilities into extended processes at the scale of those routinely executed by humans,...
A small matter of programming: perspectives on end user computing
A Small Matter of Programming asks why it has been so d…
chad/whichlang
What programming language do LLMs default to when you don't tell them? A small benchmark.
Meet the Pirates of the RAG: Adaptively Attacking LLMs to Leak Knowledge Bases
Meet the Pirates of the RAG: Adaptively Attacking LLMs to Leak Knowledge Bases
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