Gemini 3.5 Pro delayed: Google admits that the frontier release is now stuck on the code
Google differs Gemini 3.5 Pro to improve coding. The metric that blocks a frontier release is no longer knowledge, it's tool-use.
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The archaeologist and his copilot: Malykhin disciplines the LLM on Java 1.5
Nik Malykhin had to run a Java 1.5 base on modern hardware. The first answers from his LLM were plausible, but did not hold up to scrutiny. The breakthrough: stop believing it at face value, force it to rely on evidence.
yesterday 9 8
Fowler: DSLs are not dead, they are what makes LLM usable
A Martin Fowler article brings DSLs back into focus: not to impress the experts, but to give the LLM a narrow target where it can make recoverable mistakes.
Jul 15, 2026 at 19:29 9 6
Ronacher: the tower doesn't fall, and that's exactly the problem
Babel stopped when men stopped understanding each other. With the agents, construction continues after the collapse of shared understanding. No one notices anything.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:30 9 6
"Poor and overconfident": developers are poor judges of LLM assertions
New arXiv paper: programmers are not only bad judges of LLM-generated assertions - they are overconfident in their judgment. The combo that derails AI code review.
Jul 13, 2026 at 09:13 11 8
Why code in 2026? The real job after AI
A post is making the rounds on HN: coding in 2026 is less about producing lines of code and more about arbitrating context, data, and structure. The discipline is shifting.
Jul 12, 2026 at 11:15 11 7
pgrust passes 100% of the Postgres regression suite - Rust arrives at the heart of data
A Rust port of PostgreSQL now passes all official regression tests. This is not a toy - it's a signal.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:19 12 10
"Your code is fast - if you're lucky": why your micro-benchmarks lie
A viral post questions the reliability of micro-benchmarks: the same code can vary by 30% depending on the order of symbols, memory position, or username. What this means for craft.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:14 9 7