Software

• Cheaper code won’t kill software development, but it’s already reshaping it (Chris Ford) "Code is one of the most expensive and most important inputs in our industry, and when an input like that changes price, everything built around it shifts too."
• The Art of Learning (Liam Cleary) "Learning how to accomplish something is not always the same as understanding why it works."
• Trends #12: We ship 3x more code and review it the same way (Dr Milan Milanovic) "Teams with agents went from 21 to 65 PRs a week, teams without from 8 to 10"
• The Vanishing Engineering Signal in AI Hackathons (Christina Lin) "the traditional hackathon has largely lost its signal as a test of great engineering."
• TBM 445: The Feature Factory: A 10-Year Retrospective (John Cutler) Who doesn't work for a feature factory?
• The geometric model of maintenance (~kqr) "James Shore posits that each person-month spent writing code results in 10 days of maintenance in the first year, then 5 days every year after that.