Joel Spolsky

A Hacker News front-page essay argues that AI coding models produce better output when working with conventional, consistent codebases, making codebase clarity a capital asset that lowers the marginal…

A developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project was blocked after generating 750-800 lines of code when the AI refused to continue, citing the need for the developer to understand and maintain t…

The article distinguishes between two types of abstraction in system design: modularity abstraction, which hides internal details behind interfaces to simplify usage, and modeling abstraction, which r…