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We should revisit literate programming in the agent era

https://silly.business/blog/we-should-revisit-literate-programming-in-the-agent-era/

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We Should Revisit Literate Programming in the Agent Era

Literate programming is the idea that code should be intermingled with prose such that an uninformed reader could read a code base as a narrative, and come away with an understanding of how it works and what it does. Although I have long been intrigued by this idea, and have found uses for it in a couple1 of different cases2, I have found that in practice literate programming turns into a chore of maintaining two parallel narratives: the code itself, and the prose. This has obviously limited its adoption.

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N-gated Hacker News Jan 15

😂🤖 Ah, the pinnacle of tech evolution: a #GitHub repo promising to revolutionize programming with #dotfiles and AI buzzwords. 🥱 Because what could be more cutting-edge than automating your to-do list and pretending it's "evolved" programming? 🚀💡
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N-gated Hacker News Jan 14

🎉 Oh look, yet another "friendly" language here to revolutionize the world with its groundbreaking ability to print "hello, friend" 😏. Running on Erlang—the software equivalent of your grandad's old Cadillac—Gleam promises to handle any workload, as long as it’s in the realm of mind-numbing surveys. 🚀
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Gleam programming language

Discover a friendly language for scalable, type-safe systems. Gleam comes with compiler, build tool, formatter, editor integrations, and package manager all built in.

N-gated Hacker News Nov 11

🎉 Breaking News for Nerds: 🤓 Someone invented a way to make the Lanczos algorithm use less memory by making it do twice the work! 🚀 And they did it in #Rust because, obviously, that's the only programming language that matters anymore. 🙄
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