People of ACM – Russ Cox

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• shaftoe444 1 day ago
  > Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.
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  • Cthulhu_ 2 hours ago
    The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.
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    • tmoertel 2 minutes ago
      It's available online for free: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book

      And, yep, it's worth a read.
  • ignoramous 31 minutes ago
    Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.
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    • arccy 17 minutes ago
      don't we already have the words slop and vibecode
  • pstuart 2 hours ago
    An amazing distillation of the craft.
• dchest 2 hours ago
  I recently learned that Russ also wrote software for The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (https://oeis.org) and is the president of the OEIS Foundation.
• pbohun 59 minutes ago
  Russ also has a great blog, with the most recent entry on fast floating-point printing and parsing. I believe these performance improvements have landed in the latest version of Go. https://research.swtch.com/fp