Decades ago, we abandoned the practice of measuring developers for the number of lines of code they developed. We realized it was too easy to game the system by writing bloated code that reduced value ...

AI-driven coding promised speed, but its code often fractures under pressure, leaving teams to carry the weight of failures that slow products and raise real costs. Buoyed by the rise of AI, many ...

Cursor says the biggest productivity gains in AI coding are being made by developers who can orchestrate autonomous agents, not just prompt chatbots. But there’s a downside to the genuine leap: ...

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...

Boris Cherny is the creator of Anthropic’s Claude Code tool, which writes code on behalf of developers based on a text prompt. Cherny hasn’t handwritten code in eight months; instead, he manages ...

There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring. Software engineers have debated productivity metrics for decades, starting with ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Coders who don't write code have never been as productive as they are now. Spotify CEO Gustav ...

In a fascinating glimpse into the immediate future of software development, Anthropic recently revealed that its AI model, Claude, is now writing the vast majority of the company’s production code.

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...

We love a good ol’ social media roast, and Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan found himself on the business end of a doozie Wednesday. Absolutely insane week for agentic ...