A CACM article cuts through the noise: AI hasn't simplified programming, it has shifted the difficulty. The new job: arbitrating the outputs of a model that we only partially understand.
Jul 22, 2026 at 12:41 16 10
Adam Mosseri announces token quotas per engineer within one to two years. Behind the joke, a real professional question: the marginal cost of code has just stopped being zero.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:30 16 7
An agent isn't magic. It's an inference loop, a tool loop, and a human in the way. The profession is shifting: you no longer write the prompt, you write the loop.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:30 8 8
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 4 7
