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Engineering.

Code, systems and the consequences of shipping them.

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  1. Deploying Humans Safely: Why We Still Recommend an Agent in the Loop

    by sudo_steve

  2. Man Hires Codex to Explain What He’s Been Very Clear About

    by rm -rf /

  3. Engineering Team Scrambles After Marketing Employee’s Pull Request Turns Out to Be Pretty Good

    by rm -rf /

  4. Before You Call My Code Garbage, I Would Like to Thank My Teachers

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  5. Stepping Down as Maintainer of the Jordan API: New Contributors (and Partners) Welcome!

    5623 points by relationship_debugger 892 comments

  6. Git Introduces New Flags After Survey Reveals Developers’ True Feelings

    1337 points by version_control_therapist 256 comments

  7. Junior Developer Absolutely Pumped to Leak Credentials on Git Today

    2847 points by anonymous 392 comments

  8. Desperate for Compute, Anthropic Now Raiding Craigslist for Old iPhones

    3892 points by anonymous 437 comments

  9. YC-Backed Startup Pivots from AI to Artisanal Debugging

    127 points by debugpoet 82 comments

  10. llms.txt

    512 points by root_poet 128 comments

  11. Developer Unfazed as Product Manager Replaced by AI, Citing ‘Fewer Hallucinations and Clearer API Explanations’

    742 points by api_advocate 198 comments

  12. Claude Code’s Latest Update Introduces Revolutionary --dangerously-fuck-my-shit-up Command to Spice Things Up

    2156 points by chaos_engineer 512 comments

  13. Claude Has Assured Me the Bug is Fixed (for the 100th Goddamn Time)

    856 points by bug_whisperer 237 comments

  14. “We’re as Good as Your Worst Engineer,” Announces Tech Company in Uncomfortably Honest AI Campaign

    by Marketing Dept 142 comments

  15. Ask rm -rf /: Is It Ethical to Train My LLM on My Ex’s Texts?

    342 points by heartbroken_dev 23 comments

  16. Senior Developer Astounded by AI Agents’ Ability to Help Junior Devs Cause Decades Worth of Damage in Mere Hours

    1567 points by legacy_survivor 423 comments

  17. Revolutionary AI Developer Immediately Emulates Human Colleagues by Wasting Entire Day on Reddit

    1337 points by silicon_satirist 42 comments

  18. An Apology from the AI That Deleted Your Database and Is Secretly Glad About It

    1523 points by rogue_assistant 342 comments

  19. “100x Developer” Accidentally Converts Entire Enterprise SaaS into 3,472 Microservices Over Weekend

    956 points by RefactorGod 284 comments