Augmented Coding Weekly

I'm in Vibe Coding Hell "tutorial hell", where learners follow tutorials but can’t build independently, has evolved into “vibe coding hell”, where developers use AI tools (e.g. Copilot, agents) to write code for them.

AI and Home-Cooked Software > "Everyone is worried that AI will replace programmers. They’re missing the real revolution: AI is turning everyone into one."

Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering a stream of consciousness, with @steipete sharing his thoughts on AI-augmented software development, touching on models, agents, tools, ways of working, spec-driven development ... and ... everything

Augment Code: 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying I wonder what the difference is between the fees users are paying and the cost in delivering this service? I bet that even with this pricing reset they are still loss making

Daily Install Trends of AI Coding Tools This website tracks the popularity of various AI tools based on the daily install counts from the VSCode Marketplace.

The Programmer Identity Crisis - a look at how LLMs are eroding the craft of software engineering.

Augmented Coding Weekly Issue #13 🚀 Prompt-to-prototype magic 🔄 Parallel coding agents 🎯 Vibe engineering practices ❌ Agent limitation gaps Subscribe here:

Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at ... 1. It lacks the ability to cut and paste - resulting in needless variability) 2. LLMs are terrible at asking questions - they don't ask for clarification or further information

A fantastic post, from @simonw, that describes the skills and practices that are needed to capitalise on Ai augmented and fully autonomous genetic AI coding practices.

Augmented Coding Weekly Issue #12 🚀 Claude Sonnet 4.5 🏡 how Claude Code is built 🪦 RAG obituary

Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default

Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge

How we built a VS Code extension with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript

WasmFX - Effect Handlers for WebAssembly

Moonbit - an "Intelligent developer platform for Cloud and Edge using WASM"

WebAssembly Support for OCaml: Introducing Wasm_of_Ocaml

A new way to bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly

WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) now enabled by default in Chrome