I’ve been following the research on AI coding tools pretty closely and the numbers from the last few months paint a really different picture from the marketing.

Quick summary of what the data actually shows:

Anthropic published a randomized controlled trial in January. 52 developers learning a new Python library. The group using AI assistants scored 17% lower on follow-up comprehension tests. And here’s the kicker: the productivity gains weren’t statistically significant. The developers who used AI for conceptual questions (asking “how does this work?”) actually did fine, scoring 65%+. But the ones who just had AI generate the code for them? Below 40%.

Then there’s METR’s study with experienced open-source contributors. 16 devs, 246 tasks in codebases they’d worked on for years. AI increased completion time by 19%. These devs predicted it would save them 24%. The perception gap is wild.

DeveloperWeek 2026 wrapped this week and the …

Back when I was getting started in tech, there was always some veteran developer hanging around who’d dealt with whatever weird issue you were facing. You could just walk up and they’d give you the whole backstory - not just “try this command” but actually explain why things worked that way

Now it feels like everyone’s got headphones on and you need to book time on someone’s calendar just to get unstuck on something basic. Maybe it’s remote work, maybe people are just busier, but that casual knowledge transfer seems to have vanished

Anyone else notice this shift? How do you create that kind of open environment where people actually share what they know instead of everyone just grinding in isolation

Word came down from leadership at the start of this year that they want 80% of developers using AI daily in their work. It’s something I learned from my team lead, it wasn’t communicated to me directly. It’s going to be tracked on a per-team basis.

The plan is to introduce the full vibe-coding package: `.cursor` with tasks for writing code, reviewing code, writing tests, etc. etc. etc. My team lead says that the way this is going to get “rewarded” or “punished” ( my words, not his, he was a lot smoother about it ) is through tracking ARR on products in combination with AI usage. If the product’s ARR doesn’t grow per expectations through the year, and AI usage for the team isn’t what they expect, then that’s a big negative on us all.

I want to know, how many companies out there do this sort of stuff, and if I were to start applying, what is the percentage chance I jump from one AI hell-hole into another? Is it like this …

I’ve been working as a programmer for about 6 years, and I have to admit something slightly embarrassing: I’ve never read Clean Code, The Pragmatic Programmer, or Code Complete.

They’re often mentioned as must-read books for developers, and somehow I just never got around to them. Over the years I mostly learned from experience, coworkers, blog posts, and reading other people’s code.

Now the industry feels like it’s changing faster than ever AI tools, new workflows, different expectations for engineers, etc. So I’m wondering: are these books still worth reading today, or do they feel outdated?

If you were in my position, would you still read them? Or are there more modern books/resources that you’d recommend instead?

After a few years of focusing mostly on improving my coding skills, I started noticing something interesting.

Many highly effective engineers I work with are not necessarily the fastest coders, but they are excellent at things like:

• breaking down ambiguous problems

• communicating trade-offs clearly

• writing good design docs

• pushing back on bad requirements

• mentoring junior engineers

It made me wonder if at some point engineering impact becomes more about thinking and communication than raw coding ability.

For experienced engineers here:

What non-coding skill had the biggest impact on your career?

At what stage did you realize it mattered?

What advice would you give to mid-level engineers trying to grow into senior roles?

Would love to hear real examples from your experience.

im hating the idea, not the person ;), also look down for a temp solution

Title speaks for itself, almost every single post in the last few weeks is just someone promoting their vibecoded bs app that is either something simple like file transferring (there is already some well trusted ones that are faster better etc.), or something really complicated that ai cant do without security flaws… (Huntarr).

idc how this post looks, how it sounds, if vibecoders get offended, i just want the mods to actually remove this and not just try to “prevent” it with the rules they changed..

upvote if u think so 2 so it gets to the top, in my opinion commenting on someones post saying its slop wont do anything, wont help anyone.

shout out to u/masterio for this:

It’s a shame the Vibe Code and Built with AI labels were removed as it made it incredibly easy to filter out these posts with ublock.

! Enough Vibe Coded bullshit …

I really love the philosophy of self-hosting, but I want to pitch a different angle on it.

Instead of throwing away our old phones, why not turn them into real Linux servers?

And before you say it, I am not talking about Docker, LXC, chroot, proot, or any of the usual suspects.

The problem with existing “Linux Containers on Android” solutions:

• Every existing approach either relies on a middleman. For example, if you want to run Docker or LXC, what you usually do is install it via Termux. But Termux is a userspace Android app. Once the app gets killed by Android, it’s game over. No system-level integration there.
• Even if you enable “Acquire Wakelock” in Termux, Android can still kill it anytime.
• And even if Android doesn’t kill Termux, you’re still stuck with Android’s fragile networking stack where services can’t properly create their own network interfaces, run into iptables issues, and even if they do manage to start, most of …

I cant keep up with this sub, i used to love just being able to browse and find some really awesome projects that have really changed my life. Its not an overexaggeration at all, as an IT person, this place has opened my eyes and have let me discover peace in todays fast paced world where everything is about subscriptions and our private data, selfhosting allowed me to slow down and take a breath, i have built servers, deployed countless ideas and for a moment i finally felt like im free of every corporate bullshit out there.

after all these, the reason im writing this is because the amount of posts that are influenced by ai. dont get me wrong, i can think of it like any other handy tool, but thats only my view and current trends seemingly dont align with it, because there are so much new projects popping up i cant even keep up. It seems like every day some random user reinvents the wheel with their low quality vibecoded project and spams the whole sub with it, thats not good. Its not …

Wanted to flag some stuff about BookLore that I think people need to hear before they commit to it.

The code quality issue

There’s been speculation for a while that BookLore is mostly AI-generated. The dev denied it. Then v2.0 landed and, well: crashes, data not saving, UI requiring Ctrl+F5 to show changes, the works. These are the kinds of bugs you get when nobody actually understands the codebase they’re shipping.

The dev is merging 20k-line PRs almost daily, each one bolting on some new feature while bugs from the last one go unfixed. And the code itself is a giveaway: it uses Spring JPA and Hibernate but is full of raw SQL everywhere. Anyone who actually built this by hand would keep the data layer generic. Instead, something like adding Postgres support is now a huge lift because of all the hardcoded shortcuts. That’s not a style preference, that’s what AI-generated code looks like when nobody’s steering.

How contributors get treated

This part is …

Tabula Rasa is open for registration for next 24 hours.
There is a change in user accounts though, and all new user accounts are view only.
What does this mean? It means that you cannot use the API or download NZBs, just view the releases.
Account purge is same as for old user accounts (old users keep their older type of accounts that can download and use the API), complete inactivity in 6 months deletes that account, after 6 another months account is not recoverable.

You can always upgrade your account and gain API and download rights.

Have fun!

Edit: I am fixing the loop issue, for some reason error notifications are not shown, so for you it looks like register page just loops.

Edit 2: The loop issue has been fixed, you will see proper notifications now

Hey guys, I’m an avid reader. I have setup calibre on Unraid so I can manage my existing library. I’m just getting back into Unraid and Usenet after a few years. Back then, there was no real good way to get ebooks from Usenet. Unfortunately since then, some of the online “libraries” that once made accessible ebook downloads quick and easy have been taken down.

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Hey all! So you might’ve seen my old direct play guide from 5 years ago. I’ve just updated the Apple TV and iOS versions since the UI has change quite a bit since then.

The goal of this guide is that it should be super easy for your grandma (or other low tech friends & family) to get direct play set up. It’s a 1 pager and not a website so all the info you need is right there in front of you. I imagine you would message them this image and they can pinch and zoom and all that to follow along.

The main reason you’d want to get most users to direct play is to save your CPU usage for those in your circle who have low bandwidth internet caps or with devices who can’t handle h.265 direct play and would NEED transcoding to get any playback at all. Personally, these are the few peeps I allow to use auto quality on my server.

Kinda amazing that even after 5 years, you still need to nag your people to enable direct play on each and every device they have and …

HTG is judging me. I don’t appreciate it.

I’ve been slowly losing my mind over Plex transcoding. I have an Apple TV 4K and about 1000 movies + 100 shows — mix of remuxes, Blu-ray rips, some Dolby Vision (DV), some HDR10, bunch of different audio codecs. In theory most of it should Direct Play. In practice, Plex was transcoding maybe a third of my library. Wrong container, wrong DV profile, TrueHD audio the Apple TV won’t take, PGS subs in an MP4, etc.

I know ffmpeg well enough to fix any individual file, but the problem is every file needs a different set of flags. You have to ffprobe it, figure out the DV situation, check the audio tracks, decide what to transcode vs. copy, handle subs — then assemble this monster ffmpeg command. Repeat for the next file, which needs completely different flags. I got tired of doing that manually and wrote a bash script to handle the decision-making.

It turned into a bigger project than I expected. It’s called muxm and it basically inspects the source file, figures out what …

It is always a great feeling when everything is direct playing. Only took multiple times hounding people to update their client settings.