LLMs 5
- Frontier AI coding agents can now fix complex compiler bugs like LTO issues in about fifteen minutes.
- AI coding assistance now lets a programmer complete in a day work that used to take weeks.
Chris Wellons
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
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code generation 4
- AI-generated code became good enough to be practical by the end of 2025
- AI coding assistance now lets a programmer complete in a day work that used to take weeks.
coding agents 4
- Frontier AI coding agents can now fix complex compiler bugs like LTO issues in about fifteen minutes.
- AI coding assistance now lets a programmer complete in a day work that used to take weeks.
design 4
- C11's threads addition to the C standard was under-scrutinized and should not have been added.
- Software built under tight hardware constraints tends to have faster, more responsive UI than software built without such limits.
developer tools 3
- Archaic line-ending conversion features in tools have caused far more harm than good over the years.
- CMake tooling is missing a linter that could statically catch most CMakeLists.txt mistakes.
AI and jobs 2
- Frontier AI now outperforms most human programmers at most programming tasks, with very low defect rates.
- AI will make hand-written code a luxury only the wealthy can afford to produce.