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Ken Thompson rewrote his code in real-time. A federal court said he co-created MP3. So why has no one heard of James D. Johnston?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-184599371

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How a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap
https://questdb.com/blog/jvm-current-thread-user-time/

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LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
https://tomrenner.com/posts/400-year-confidence-trick/

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I let the internet vote on what code gets merged. Here's what happened in Week 1.
https://blog.openchaos.dev/posts/week-1-the-first-merge

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Your estimates take longer than expected, even when you account for them taking longer — Parkinson's & Hofstadter's Laws
https://l.perspectiveship.com/re-plla

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YAML? That’s Norway problem
https://lab174.com/blog/202601-yaml-norway/

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AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/

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Thanks AI! - Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure, about AI
https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f

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Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t.
https://www.chrisgregori.dev/opinion/code-is-cheap-now-software-isnt

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Vibe coding needs git blame
https://quesma.com/blog/vibe-code-git-blame/

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I got tired of “TODO: remove later” turning into permanent production code, so I built this
https://github.com/jobin-404/debtbomb

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LLMs have burned Billions but couldn't build another Tailwind
https://omarabid.com/tailwind-ai

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The 1MB Password: Crashing Backends via Hashing Exhaustion
https://instatunnel.my/blog/the-1mb-password-crashing-backends-via-hashing-exhaustion

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Replit boss: CEOs can vibe code their own prototypes and don't have to beg engineers for help anymore
https://share.google/CPwNzKaB0G5UADxXN

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You probably don't need Oh My Zsh
https://rushter.com/blog/zsh-shell/

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A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge
https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/02/a-new-worst-coder-has-entered-the-chat-vibe-coding-without-code-knowledge/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter&lid=pbpw8ug89ujl

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IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ibm-ai-(-bob-)-downloads-and-executes-malware

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Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades

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Linus Torvalds: "The AI slop issue is *NOT* going to be solved with documentation"
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Linux-Kernel-AI-Slop

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Tailwind just laid off 75% of their engineering team
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957

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