this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer
Cognition | Agent Trace: Capturing the Context Graph of Code
We’re excited to join in Cursor, Cloudflare, Vercel, git-ai, OpenCode and others in support of [Agent Trace](https://agent-trace.dev/). As described in the spec, Agent Trace is an open, vendor-neutral spec for recording AI contributions alongside human authorship in version-controlled codebases.
Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff
Cognitive Bias Lab | Learn to Make Better Decisions
Explore cognitive biases with interactive tests, simulations, and real-world examples. Free platform to sharpen decision-making and critical thinking — no sign-up needed.
The Divided Brain (2019) | How the Left Brain Hijacked the Modern World
Learn | Frontend Hire
AI writes the UI now. These tracks build the career it can't: frontend depth, product thinking, AI-powered building, and finding the work that pays for it.
Combinatorial Creativity
Combinatorial creativity recombines existing ideas to spark novel, valuable innovations in cognition, AI, and design.
Sublime — A second brain with a soul
Sublime is a personal knowledge management tool designed to help you save, organize, and create with everything that inspires you. Trusted by leading thinkers a...
Programming (with AI agents) as theory building
Back in 1985, computer scientist Peter Naur wrote “Programming as Theory Building”. According to Naur - and I agree with him - the core output of software engineers is not the program itself, but the theory of how the program works. In other words, the knowledge inside the engineer’s mind is the primary artifact of engineering work, and the actual software is merely a by-product of that.
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee
This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more
Stack Overflow Insights - Developer Hiring, Marketing, and User Research
Explore the Stack Overflow Developer Survey — data and insights on how developers work, what tools they use, and what they want from employers.
How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code
Last week I hinted at a demo I had seen from a team implementing what Dan Shapiro called the Dark Factory level of AI adoption, where no human even looks …
The Future of Software Engineering Isn’t What You Think
Over the past two decades, I’ve watched software eat the world, then hardware catch up, then Generative AI reshape both at the same time…
DeepMind Institute
Bold, well-evidenced thinking on AGI from the lab that pioneered the field. Read the latest essays from the DeepMind Institute.
Opinion | The Age of Interdisciplinary Slop
The corporate jargon of change masks the decimation of intellectual life.
