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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.

As we use coding agents to author code rather than people, many questions arise about where software engineers fit, how we achieve quality outcomes, and how we train juniors.

The answer lies in reversing the trend to merge the roles of programmer and coder. Whilst agents take on the role of the coder, the role of a programmer in creating the program's theory remains with a human if we want to avoid cognitive debt and low quality.

Coding is Dead, Long Live Programming: https://write.as/ian-cooper/coding-is-dead-long-live-programming

Coding Is Dead, Long Live Programming

Summary In this post, we argue that the role of a coder now belongs to a coding agent, but that the distinct role of a programmer define...

Ian Cooper - Staccato Signals

The ESPHome team are asking for feedback on the new builder GUI.

There's a Figma file which you can click through to see the current proposal.

https://www.figma.com/design/0rJAtCTxej6udDhYfMMSXB/ESPHome-GUI---Start-kit-and-beyond?node-id=648-6026&t=YYuOoCu644gdcywr-1

#esphome #homeassistant

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Think about the last architectural decision your team made.

Was it actually decided through careful analysis? Or did the person who cared the most and spoke the loudest end up steering the outcome?

14 episodes into our Stories on Facilitating Software Architecture & Design series with @roundcrisis and @ahl, and one pattern keeps surfacing: the biggest threat to good architecture isn't a lack of technical knowledge. It's the human dynamics we don't address.
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#SoftwareArchitecture

What AI coding costs you | Tom Wojcik

What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?

Tom Wojcik
The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.

"I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.

I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, AI-generated headshots,

… I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. 3 minutes later — done.

… Then I did what apparently nobody does. I read the privacy policy and terms of service.

Not LinkedIn’s. The other company’s.

Wait, What Other Company? …"

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
#surveillanceacapitalism

I saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some *respect* on its *name*.

"Immigration was at the centre of Donald Trump's 2024 win, but it's now mired in controversy".

"...an extraordinary 71 per cent of Americans reporting they felt like the country is 'out of control'."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-27/trumps-immigration-policy-mired-in-controversy/106273482

Trump has always been the master of the story, but he's losing control of the narrative

If there was one policy area that was at the centre of US President Donald Trump's election win in 2024, it was immigration. But it has now become mired in controversy.