Welcome to issue 117 of Hacker Bits!
We have a great selection of articles this month covering judgement over skill, makefiles, cognitive load, effective learning, WASM, motivating yourself, AI for seniors, and so much more!
As always, please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback! 🙂
– Ray and Maureen
Learn more
- The rise of judgement over technical skill by Alexander Kohlhofer
- Learn Makefiles by Chase Lambert
- AI agent lethal trifecta: private data, untrusted content, exfiltration vectors by Simon Willison
- Unit Testing Principles by Facundo Olano
- Why LLMs can’t really build software by Conrad Irwin
Work less
- Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?
- Do the simplest thing that could possibly work by Sean Goedecke
- Cognitive load is what matters by Artem Zakirullin
- Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge by Piotr Wozniak
- We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds by Sascha Fast
Stay current
- WASM 3.0 Completed by Andreas Rossberg
- How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don’t want to do by Ashley Janssen
- Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI by Gal Elidan, Yael Haramaty
- AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger? by Can Elma
- The Elements of Code by John Mark Wilkinson
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