Every piece of software is a state machine. Any mutable variable adds a staggering number of states to that machine.
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ojmwd9/john_carmack_on_updating_variables/nm518eo/
AI code generators promise speed, but what about the hidden costs? From
technical debt to team dynamics, there's more to consider.
If AI integration feels overwhelming, you're not alone. Understanding the full
picture helps reduce uncertainty.
https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/the-real-cost-of-ai-generated-code-it-s-not-all-it-s-cracked-up-to-be/
#AI [https://agilealliance.social/tags/AI] #SoftwareDevelopment
[https://agilealliance.social/tags/SoftwareDevelopment] #TechReality
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Audio Sound Capture Project Needs Help - When you are capturing audio from a speaker, you are rarely capturing the actual d... - https://hackaday.com/2025/11/05/audio-sound-capture-project-needs-help/ #softwaredevelopment #harmonicanalysis #audiophiles #opensource #python #audio

Anthropic has expanded the availability of Claude Code, its AI-powered development environment!
Now available on both web & mobile, developers can run and manage coding tasks directly in a browser or on mobile devices.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4qHqo2j
"Today, AIs can do some things. Eventually, they may be able to do everything. Forecasts generally project forward from what AI can do today, estimating how long it will take to fill in the gaps.
We often underestimate the size of those gaps. Some of this is just “out of sight, out of mind” (or, if you prefer, “availability bias”) – it’s easier to notice the things AIs are doing than the things they aren’t. But also, AIs have important gaps in fuzzy high-level skills that we don’t have great vocabulary for. These skills are applied diffusely across our workday instead of showing up as a crisp bullet on a todo list, making it easier to forget they exist.
In today’s post, I’m going to discuss some of the capabilities that AIs will need to acquire in order to progress from carrying out tasks to automating entire projects and jobs. I’ll also argue against some specific ideas that are sometimes presented in arguments for “short timelines” (AGI arriving within the next few years).
I’ll mostly be talking about software engineering. Automated coding is central to many scenarios of rapid AI progress, and it’s the domain I know best. But the principles I’m going to discuss apply to many fields.
We often analyze AI’s aptitude for a job by enumerating the tasks involved in that job. However, the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Breaking up a job (or a large project) into tasks is a useful mental scaffold, but it’s also an oversimplified way of thinking about things. The boundaries between tasks are not clean; information bleeds across."
https://secondthoughts.ai/p/a-project-is-not-a-bundle-of-tasks

New blog post: Unit testing vs. integration testing
“Unit tests and integration tests are often compared – and usually presented as opposites. In this post, I will examine these two types of tests from a different point of view and show how this perspective can help us write better tests.”
https://sebastian-hans.de/blog/unit-testing-vs-integration-testing/
"A Plea for Lean Software" by Prof. Niklaus Wirth (1995)
Debugging a race condition for two days straight. A gentle reminder that software engineering is both art and chaos
As #AI moves from proof-of-concept to production, the real challenges emerge - not just in model performance, but in architecture, process & accountability.
Developers are building delivery pipelines where AI learns, adapts & interacts with human judgment. From MLOps to team culture, this shift is redefining software engineering.
Explore the journey in this #InfoQ eMag!
Download your **FREE** copy now: https://bit.ly/47lKE1P
Introducing runtime_introspect v0.2.0 !
https://github.com/neutrinoceros/runtime-introspect/releases/tag/v0.2.0
This versions introduces high level, portable APIs like
- FeatureSet.supports("free-threading")
- FeatureSet.supports("JIT")
- FeatureSet.supports("py-limited-api")
making it possible to inspect availability for specific features at runtime with *very* little code (turns out solving this problem in the general case is complicated enough that I only want to do it once).
For instance
from runtime_introspect import runtime_feature_set
fs = runtime_feature_set()
if fs.supports("free-threading"):
... # cool multi-threading stuff
else:
... # less cool, single threading stuff
every non-EOL version of #CPython (including unstable ones, #Python315) are supported.

While Traditional Tests rely on handpicked examples, Generative Tests go further: they programmatically generate inputs, uncover unforeseen bugs, and offer broader coverage.
#GenerativeTesting reshapes how we think about #SoftwareQuality.
Read more from Mourjo Sen, Senior Software Engineer at Booking.com: https://bit.ly/4hASsQA
”When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking…”
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
#ai #coding #softwaredevelopment

I really enjoy and love development using nvim + tmux.
Normally I develop on my desktop. But then I step away from it... but realize I want to do some lightweight development... ssh, tmux a... and boom, back into dev environment.
It's just... so ... fluid, and flawless. Love it.
Visual Studio Update Boosts Copilot with AI Memory, Planning, and Anthropic's Claude Models
#VisualStudio #GitHubCopilot #AI #Developer #Microsoft #Coding #SoftwareDevelopment #Anthropic #Claude #AgenticAI #DevTools
Both recruiting and interviewing is hard for everyone involved David Sheffield joins us at hashtag #DDDAdelaide 2025 to demystify the hiring process from both sides
offering practical advice for everyone to achieve the goal they want
DDD Adelaide is on Saturday 22nd November. Find out more and buy your ticket ASAP (as we've always sold out) from https://dddadelaide.com