The volume of poorly made software, or 'slop', has increased as more people create software for the first time, according to an essay by an unnamed author. The author argues that the cure for slop is …
Elliot C. Smith, a software engineer and blogger, outlines five archetypes of AI product development in a new essay, ranging from long-running chat conversations with agents to building standard softw…
A blog post argues that artificial intelligence has made it easier for individuals to act on their ideas, expanding both permission and capability. The author, writing on a personal blog, encourages r…
A developer reflects that AI coding agents like Claude have broken the link between output and improvement, making it easy to produce large amounts of code without the deep learning that comes from ma…
A hobbyist game developer reports that after two weeks using Claude Code on two small game projects, the AI tool adds excessive text to screens, wastes tokens on screenshot verification, and struggles…
As AI accelerates code writing, engineering teams are discovering that shipping code is no longer the primary bottleneck. Instead, blockers like deciding what to build, onboarding customers to new fea…
A developer built an AI agent system using Claude Code to solve file compression as a constrained optimization problem, testing whether AI can autonomously improve a quantifiable metric under real-wor…