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acairns.co.uk

Cognitive debt

The growing gap between the code your team ships and the code your team understands. It’s not technical debt. It’s worse.

helenmin.com

Software isn’t dying, but it is becoming more honest

A giant leap towards outcomes-based billing.

cursor.com

How technical support at Cursor uses Cursor

Removing the context-gathering bottleneck for most support work.

rosipov.com

Are AI productivity gains fueled by delivery pressure?

How pressure to deliver fast erodes the deep thinking necessary for truly functional products.

zknill.io

If code is cheap, intent is the currency

Apparently writing code is cheap now. So since the barrier to producing code is gone, the intent behind the code is the most important bit.

boristane.com

The software development lifecycle is dead

AI agents didn’t make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that’s left is context.

lucasfcosta.com

Design docs considered harmful

Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.

sidu.in

There is no product

If you’ve been anywhere near tech Twitter in the last few weeks, you’ve heard it: SaaS is dead. Everyone has an explanation. Sigh.

cannoneyed.com

The software industrial revolution

Just like the first Industrial Revolution, this will change the world in profound and unexpected ways.

anildash.com

Launch it 3 times

Why your first launch might not be enough.

nngroup.com

Your design system needs an enforcer

Although design systems promise consistency, most still fail without someone actively enforcing the rules and making teams follow them.

lethain.com

Refactoring internal documentation in Notion

Making changes that actually work instead of optically sounding impressive.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Saying “no” in an age of abundance

Wait, we have AI now. We don’t have to say no to 1,000 things. We can say yes to all the things — generate them all, simultaneously!!!1

shaunbent.co.uk

Is there too much design in design systems?

Most design system roles are design-focused, but the biggest value comes from code. Are we building design systems, or just designing them?

fffej.substack.com

Post-mortem theatre

I put a post-mortem in your post-mortem.

quinnkeast.com

What, then, are we paying for?

Software is problem ownership.

overreacted.io

A social filesystem

Formats over apps.

tante.cc

Software as fast fashion

Clothes have never been cheaper. Same thing is happening with software.

eleganthack.com

Your resolution isn’t the problem; your measurement is

It’s January, and millions of people have made the same resolution: “Eat better.” By February, most will have abandoned it.

seangoedecke.com

You can’t design software you don’t work on

Generic software design advice is typically useless for most practical software design problems.