Jerf

The effect of AI on PRs has gotten a lot of press. Slop PRs, untested PRs, just the profusion of PRs. Slop bugs, slop security reports, all sorts of slop problems. Definitely a problem. But I would also propose that something else happening in the open so

One of the recurring hobbies of the programming community is to self-righteously self-flagellate about how we don't do Real Engineering TM like those other engineering disciplines do, with their blueprints, and licensing processes for Real Engineers, and

As with many programmers, as my career has progressed I've come to appreciate the utility of "compile time checking". I don't ever want to go back to a language where it is hard to verify constraints are checked at compile time. Followers of this blog may

Two strands are making me ponder the "value" of code in our new AI era. One is the increasing cheapness of producing a line of code, trending toward zero. As a professional who produces lines of code, among other things, this trend is something I need to

Every field of human activity has its unique characteristics, and programming is no exception. One of the unique aspects of software is how it spans such a large number of orders of magnitude. A software engineer may be slicing and dicing nanoseconds, or