Links tagged “opinion”
30 links, newest first.
queue.acm.org
After twenty years, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote his last Bikeshed column. The bikeshed is dead, long live the bikeshed.
antirez.com
Control the Ideas, Not the Code - antirez on where the leverage actually sits when you work with agents.
andrewkelley.me
Andrew Kelley's response to the Bun rewrite - and the Zig side of that same argument, from the creator of the language.
lore.kernel.org
"Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects" - Torvalds settles kernel LLM policy on the mailing list: it is a tool, and anyone who disagrees can fork or walk away.
raymyers.org
Reads the Bun rewrite announcements against each other and argues the Zig-to-Rust move was told as a story rather than justified as engineering.
jchri.st
In praise of memcached - an unkillable cache, and a quiet case against chasing the new thing.
newsletter.kentbeck.com
Kent Beck: the point was never the typing, it was keeping options open and moving cost later in time.
marble.onl
Argues open-weight models have closed the gap far enough that choosing one is no longer a professional risk.
antirez.com
A new era for software testing: antirez uses an LLM agent as a QA engineer, instructions in a markdown file, regressions checked commit by commit.
world.hey.com
DHH against projects that bar assisted contributions, arguing the programmers using these tools have the same claim to participate as anyone.
newsletter.kentbeck.com
Trust Factory: Kent Beck on the new bottleneck. We’re accumulating code faster than we are accumulating trust.
tbray.org
XML and JSON in 2026: a state of both formats by Tim Bray, who co-created one of them and is unsentimental about it.
etsd.tech
Even if you're vibe-coding (and especially if), don't forget to read your code!
fluxus.io
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble
tomdalling.com
Leprechauns, root causes, and other fairy tales
norvig.com
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
varunraghu.com
I'm rebelling against the algorithm: a statement to fight about time-hungry algorithmic «news» feeds.
bitecode.dev
The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes: Europe has become dangerously dependent on American technology infrastructure, from cloud services and SaaS platforms to operating systems and chips.
