writing
68 stories and discussions about writing, aggregated from every source we track.
Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.
Two rules keep an LLM from pasteurizing your writing: never take a word it suggests, and never let it encourage you. Then hand it all the tedious work.
Writing requires thinking, don't let an AI do the thinking for you.
We implemented a parquet writer in DataHaskell/Dataframe. Using it is simple; you need only pass your dataframe into the writeParquet function which writes a...
TL;DR DEV has so many interesting series, but they can be easy to miss when we don't follow the...
The perfect app for your band practice recordings. Built by musicians, for musicians!
Our summer Visiting Fellow Roland Buckingham Hsiao very kindly led a workshop on Chinese calligraphy a few weeks ago, which we greatly enjoyed. It was not only an opportunity to learn but to experi…
<p>I would like to learn a new language during quarantine! I'm looking for something that will be a little different from just a new C-like imperative language.</p> <p>I've spent the last 4 years of my career writing Go. Languages I have messed around in in the past: Haskell, Rust, Java, Python.</p> <p>Requirements:</p> <ul> <li>Must be statically typed, or at least have a static analyzer (e.g. <a href="https://sorbet.org/" rel="ugc">Sorbet</a>).</li> <li>Some available documentation must be able to take a beginner through (e.g. <a href="http://learnyouahaskell.com/" rel="ugc">Learn You a Haskell</a>, <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/" rel="ugc">The Rust Book</a>).</li> <li>Must be able to run on Linux.</li> </ul> <p>I <em>really</em> wanted to get into <a href="http://unisonweb.org" rel="ugc">Unison</a> but that's still pre-alpha and very far from being usable for writing actual programs.</p>
Not AI writing itself. AI is incredibly useful.
AI is writing more code. That part is obvious now. Developers can ask an agent to: create a...
A distraction-free writing environment; draft anything, write now. - andrewmd5/dawn
To me, AI writing always results in this: And If it's read by a human it should also be written by a human.
Musings on navigating the tech bubble with philosophy and self-improvement.
Your full-screen hero looks perfect in the simulator and cuts off the CTA on a real phone. It's not a bug in your code — it's `vh` answering a question you didn't ask. Three new units fix it with zero JavaScript.
How to use the built-in json.stringify to write to a custom output/stream in Zig
Note: I started writing this as a comment to one of @embernoglow's posts, but it became too...
Every Claude Code session starts the same way. You say “run the tests.” The agent says “I’ll look for how to run tests in this project.”
Writing a TSDB from scratch in Go Performance optimizations
I've been writing long before AI, starting in 2015 to publish on this very blog, and then AI came, and I still write manually.
How a backup center's analytics ranking got a Python developer to build an NBA stats warehouse without writing a single line of code.
Happy birthday to my little corner of the web.
Once AI started writing most of my code, I left 15 years of Git behind for Jujutsu (jj). Here are four reasons I can’t go back: saving, experimenting, rewriting history, and how the log shows history.
Transparent, Human-First, AI-Assisted Writing in Academia. TeXposit is the modern collaborative LaTeX, Markdown and LaTeX+Markdown Hybrid editor. TeXposit features an advanced AI writing assistant, built-in reference…
For months now I've been working on OpenNVR, an open-source NVR (network video recorder) for IP...
Bridging the gap between Mathematics and Computer Science
A modern LLM can spend most of its time doing something that looks almost embarrassingly simple: C...
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.
After writing my Nextcloud setup guide, people have asked me whether they can install Nextcloud on shared hosting, like cPanel.
I’ve been writing letters to my kids for over a decade and will soon be handing them over.
The perfect app for your band practice recordings. Built by musicians, for musicians!
Find the signs of AI writing in a draft: each sentence that reads as generated, the rule it broke and the fix. Twelve named rules, ten deterministic.
Robot writing has no voice. That's why you find it annoying. Like it or not, your brain is currently one of the best organic pattern matchers in the known solar
Otto Hilska and Rebecca Murphey on the third edition of Build — what changed, what didn’t, and how engineering leaders can turn individual AI gains into organizational ones.
As of this writing, the appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s labeling of Anthropic as a supply chain risk. And while there is always an element of politics involved, it’s worth considering what a supply chain risk…
Don’t read The Ambidextrous Universe unless you are serious about maths and physics, because Martin Gardner is very happy to make his readers work – to enthralling effect, says Jacklin Kwan
My agent instructions say not to add comments, but Claude does not obey. Introducing 'Shut up and SWE-bench'.
So uhhh, yeah. Writing is hard, time-consuming, and often frustrating. Coming up with topics worth writing about is even harder and littered with false starts. I figured I should try to get out...
I’m not good at prioritizing tasks, but there is one rule I follow and that I can justify very well: If something worked yesterday and is broken today, I will drop whatever I’m doing an…
Tool for layered writing . Contribute to aartoghrul/layered development by creating an account on GitHub.
A Self-Evident Essay Arguing for the Use of AI In Writing - Sheer-Economics/the-sins-of-AI-writing
Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.