I love using AI to help me code. But companies who view current AI as a replacement for expensive human programmers are forgetting the painful lessons that we learned in the 1980s and 90s.

How the “Easy Button” for Workflow Automation Became a $10M Bottleneck — And What Seasoned Developers Know That You Don’t

Researchers have found that AI tech company Cognition's Devin, the "first AI software engineer," is astonishingly bad at its job.

Nailed just 15% of assigned tasks

Why the OAuth2 protocol was designed the way it is and how it works.

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It seemed like a great idea at first.

A quick project spiraled into a marathon of AI missteps, hardware headaches, and hard-earned lessons. Welcome to the story of Deskthang.

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

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How the Industry’s Relentless Pace of Innovation Is Crushing New Coders — And the Old-School Mindset That Can Save Them

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A new way to handle dates and times is being added to JavaScript. Let's take a look at Temporal, what problems it solves, the current state, and what you'll find in the new documentation about it on MDN.

Idempotency doesn't get the attention it deserves.

It enables a distributed system to be both resilient and performant.

If, like us, you’re building low-latency APIs and face significant penalties for breaching SLAs, this article may be worth your time.…

Null pointers look simple on the surface, and that’s why they’re so dangerous. As compiler optimizations, intuitive but incorrect simplifications, and platform-specific quirks have piled on, the odds of making a wrong assumption have increased, leading to…

Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry since before it was even an industry. This in and of itself isn’t inhe…