pcloadletter
  1. The Birthday Paradox, simulated
  2. Pre-agent nostalgia
  3. Features for no one (AI edition)
  4. We might have been slower to abandon Stack Overflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole
  5. Cool project, will you actually maintain it?
  6. Software craftsmanship is dead
  7. The Monty Hall Problem, a side-by-side simulation
  8. I hope generative AI does away with SEO
  9. npm needs an analog to pnpm's minimumReleaseAge and yarn's npmMinimalAgeGate
  10. Make your PR process resilient to AI slop
  11. AI hype is excessive, but its productivity gains are real
  12. Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am
  13. The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape
  14. Quality is a hard sell in big tech
  15. Agile is a tainted term
  16. Surely dark UX doesn't work in the long run
  17. RSS is still pretty great
  18. Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible