> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.
pstuart•Aug 21, 2026
An amazing distillation of the craft.
Cthulhu_•Aug 21, 2026
The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.
ignoramous•Aug 21, 2026
Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.
arccy•Aug 21, 2026
don't we already have the words slop and vibecode
dchest•Aug 21, 2026
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•Aug 21, 2026
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
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