{"slug": "russ-cox-has-left-google", "title": "Russ Cox Has Left Google", "summary": "Russ Cox, a prominent software engineer and former leader of the Go programming language project at Google, announced he has left Google. In a post on his personal blog, Cox stated that frontier large language models are 'much better and dramatically faster' than he is at finding and fixing bugs, and urged developers to use them for debugging and code review. He shared a thread of examples where Claude, an AI assistant by Anthropic, successfully fixed bugs, highlighting the growing role of AI in software development.", "body_md": "This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is.\n\n### Post\n\nRuss Cox\n\nswtch.com\n\ndid:plc:a4slcmeql3w6vsdbjbcgxd3m\n\nFrontier LLMs are much better and dramatically faster than I am at finding and fixing bugs. If you are not asking them to debug your code and review your bugs, you are doing it wrong.\nA thread of Claude wins.\n(No longer at Google, btw.)\n[contains quote post or other embedded content]\n\n2026-08-25T20:26:06.369Z", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/russ-cox-has-left-google", "canonical_source": "https://bsky.app/profile/swtch.com/post/3mtwnosklvk2v", "published_at": "2026-08-25 22:35:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-25 22:44:36.484926+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Russ Cox", "Google", "Claude", "Anthropic"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/russ-cox-has-left-google", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/russ-cox-has-left-google.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/russ-cox-has-left-google.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/russ-cox-has-left-google.jsonld"}}