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Editor’s note: Linda Hayes’ recent column, “Anatomy of Ugly: How Good Code Goes Bad”, generated a lot of reader response. Here are some of the comments on Linda’s dilemma about whether to rewrite ...

I’ve written about how coding is so over. AI is getting smarter every day, and it won’t be long before large language models (LLMs) write better code than any human. But why is coding the one thing ...

Like babies, most code is born beautiful, at least in the eye of its creator. But the only time I ever heard one programmer praise another’s code was prerelease. In this newborn state, the code ...

Claude Code vs ChatGPT Codex compared for performance, pricing, workflows, and privacy to find the best AI coding assistant ...

In the Code Anthem blog post Bad Code is Viral, Amber Shah describes why “writing bad code is viral.” This is a great post that reminds me of a pattern I have seen repeatedly: bad code does seem to ...