Other engineering fields compile deep reference books about their materials and software has nothing of the kind, not even a five-hundred-page book on how to version an API.

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• Deep compiler knowledge is still interesting, but it is no longer useful to a working engineer in any meaningful sense. SYSteve Yegge11 Mar 2026
• Programmers should be reading research papers and crawling their references, and the fact that almost none of them do is a bigger gap than any book recommendation could close. CMCasey Muratori26 Aug 2026
• Letting non-programmers build their own unmaintainable software is still a large step forward, because the alternative was a thousand-page requirements document and an eight-year wait. KBKent Beck1 Jul 2026
• MCP is not a new foundation for anything — it is API design, and Kubernetes was already turning one intention into seven calls a decade ago. KHKelsey Hightower3 Jun 2026
• Coding models are worst at exactly the thing an AI research explosion would need: code that has never been written before. AKAndrej Karpathy17 Oct 2025

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