People of ACM – Russ Cox

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dchest•about 3 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.

shaftoe444•1 day ago

> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.

Cthulhu_•about 2 hours ago

The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.

tmoertel•2 minutes ago

It's available online for free: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book

And, yep, it's worth a read.

ignoramous•32 minutes ago

Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.

arccy•18 minutes ago

don't we already have the words slop and vibecode

pstuart•about 2 hours ago

An amazing distillation of the craft.