The Mythical Man-Month

Simon Willison, a software engineer and creator of Datasette, argued on the Talking Postgres podcast that lines of code can be a meaningful productivity metric for coding agents, noting that while a s…

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.'s 1975 essay 'The Tar Pit' from 'The Mythical Man-Month' remains relevant today as AI coding tools lower programming barriers, capturing the dual nature of programming as both …

A generation of Factorio players has been inadvertently trained to manage autonomous production systems, a skill now directly applicable to AI agent orchestration. The game's iterative rebuild mechani…