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A Software North Star: Users First, Then Correctness, Then Efficiency

hackernews / top 1d ago 4

Loris Cro outlines his three-tiered philosophy for software development, ranking end-user utility above correctness and maintainability. He contends that developer experience, memory safety, and elegant abstractions only matter when they serve the goal of building reliable, lovable software. The post is a concise argument against user-hostile or vanity-driven engineering.

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OpenAI Ships Million-Line Product Written Entirely by Codex Agents

hackernews / top 1d ago 9

OpenAI details building and shipping a full product with zero manually-written code using Codex agents, achieving roughly 10x speed and redefining engineering as steering rather than coding.

Study Reveals Code Review Devours 60% of Tokens in AI-Driven Software Development

hackernews / top 1d ago 8

Study finds AI agent code review consumes 59% of tokens in software engineering workflows, revealing hidden costs lie in refinement rather than generation.

The $1,000 Secret Behind Your $100 AI Coding Subscription

tldr / ai 20h ago 8

An in-depth experiment with Claude Code reveals that heavy AI-assisted programming consumes tokens worth over $1,000 monthly at API rates, suggesting current consumer AI subscriptions are heavily subsidized and economically unsustainable for serious use.