#devculture

A few days ago, I was talking to a junior developer who was literally sweating bullets. He had just...

Documentation shouldn’t fall on one person. Make it a team effort. Encourage contributions to keep it...

The industry is going to wake up in five to seven years to a shortage of senior engineers, and it will not be because we fired any of them. The current cohort of senior engineers is, by most…

Imagine an AI that sits inside a computer and solves the world’s toughest math equations or writes...

Buried in a recent Anthropic research note is one of the more honest sentences a major AI vendor has published this year:

Lars Faye's Agentic Coding Is a Trap — published Sunday, May 3, picked up on Hacker News at 398 points and 316 comments — is the best single compendium of the cognitive-debt evidence base anyone…

It’s 9:47 PM. You’re about to shut your laptop. Then you see it… Your manager just pushed a commit....

On April 29, 2026, Mitchell Hashimoto announced he was moving Ghostty off GitHub. His phrasing — "GitHub is no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day, every…

There's a small, angry post on a bear blog called migraine brain that's been on Hacker News for a few days now. The whole post is three paragraphs. It opens: "'People who don't use AI will be left…

A documented user investigation posted in late April 2026 reported, for one Windows machine, the following two numbers: 715 Claude Code sessions on disk, and 69 sessions visible in the Claude Code…

Every senior delivery manager I have ever known has the same career anecdote. They have never, across some round number of years, watched a major release ship on the date set at kickoff. Not once…

It is now possible, with the toolchain available to a single person on a normal laptop, to produce work that ten years ago would have required a team. The work is not toy work. Films are coming out…