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No AI Fridays: Developers Push Back on AI Overload

A Hacker News discussion sparks debate over AI's relentless pace in software development.

Why it mattersThe 'No AI Fridays' movement highlights the growing need for developers to balance AI reliance with foundational skills. As AI tools become pervasive, intentional breaks may prevent skill atrophy and enhance long-term creativity and problem-solving abilities.

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DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

github | stars 117,021

zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill

Reverse Engineering / Authorized Penetration Testing / Security Research Skill Router Pack AI-powered routing + On-demand toolchain bootstrapping + Self-evolving knowledge base S…

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SWE-Prime: Fewer Trajectories, Better Performance

To improve large language models' ability to resolve real-world software issues, prior work has focused on constructing large-scale agent trajectory datasets and performing supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on successful tra…

arxiv

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LLM Evals: Everything You Need to Know

This document curates the most common questions Shreya and I received while teaching 700+ engineers & PMs AI Evals. Warning: These are sharp opinions about what works in most cases. They are not universal truths. Use yo…

hamel

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