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Senior developers share candid experiences with AI coding assistants, revealing both productivity gains and significant limitations.

Developer creates a fully-featured iOS podcast app using Racket, demonstrating how functional languages can power mobile applications.

A claimed MIT study on AI's cognitive effects sparks debate about whether AI tools represent genuine abstraction or create dependency that undermines deep learning.

A developer's terminal workflow sparks debate about the value of custom configurations versus embracing software defaults and their historical reasoning.

Exploring how functions can be understood as infinite-dimensional vectors, enabling the application of linear algebra tools to functional analysis problems.

Exploring different approaches to modeling polymorphic data in relational databases, from single table inheritance to JSON blobs and beyond.

Fintech company replaces specialized OCR vendor with Gemini, achieving dramatic speed improvements and cost savings while sparking debate about AI's impact on software.

Discussion of Gemini CLI file deletion incident reveals fascinating differences in AI personality traits and their unexpected real-world impacts.

Article claiming typed languages are better for AI-assisted coding sparks heated debate about developer competence and LLM effectiveness.

Enthusiastic article about letting Claude Code run wild on a VPS triggers discussion about whether AI coding creates new economic barriers for beginners.