In other words, if you trust an LLM to write code for you, you must be extremely cautious about what it produces. The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19182

I released a simple new Ruby gem that removes extreme values from an array using Tukey’s method: yegor256/tukeyized. The actual functionality is just 19 lines of code, but the total package has 2,692 lines. That’s only 0.7% doing the work—the rest is tests, CI, and packaging. And that’s exactly how it should be. Ship your code in micropackages, each with its own lifecycle, quality control, and testing strategy.

Кодер, время летит быстро, снова пятница! Бросай клавиатуру и садись слушать прямой эфир о философии, на YouTube и VK (через несколько минут начало).

This is what programmers feel when they receive incorrect answers from an LLM. All of a sudden, they are not curious or thoughtful — they are frustrated and annoyed. What do you usually feel? The study is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10050.

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In other words, if you let an LLM help your team review pull requests, programmers may stop feeling personally responsible for review quality — they’ll expect the LLM to do the job for them. The paper is here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3721127.

Quietly, AI is making all code look the same — and not in a good way. The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12014

If you bought one of my books within the last two years, you can get a 50% refund. All you have to do is post an honest review on Amazon and send me the link once it’s live. Only one review per person qualifies for the refund. Your reviews help me get more readers. More readers motivate me to write more books.

We are organizing the 6th International Conference on Code Quality (ICCQ'26) next year, in collaboration with the A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems (IIS, Novosibirsk) and, hopefully, IEEE Computer Society. We’re looking for volunteers to help with inviting Program Committee members, promoting the conference, pre-reviewing submissions, and preparing the proceedings in LaTeX. This is an unpaid position, but it’s a valuable experience you can list on your CV—especially useful if you plan to apply for an MSc or PhD program. If interested, please email us at [email protected] (attach your LinkedIn and GitHub profiles).

Пришло время для ответа на ваши вопросы. Бросай работу, идем общаться! Подключайся на YouTube и VK.

Появилось несколько книг Code Ahead в Москве, можно приобрести с доставкой по РФ и РБ (здесь подробности). Книга не о программировании, а об управлении. Основана на реальных событиях. Написана в форме повести — с действующими лицами и диалогами. Опубликована была в 2018-м году на Amazon, а в 2019-м году была переведена на русский язык и издана под именем "Наш код".

Stanford University organized a scientific conference where only AI agents are allowed to write papers and AI agents review papers: Agents4Science 2025. They have received 300 papers and accepted only 48 of them. The event will happen today at 6pm (Moscow time), online. I've already registered and will attend to see the show. This may well be the future of science.

Imagine a command-line tool that runs your entire codebase through a local LLM — and fails the build if the model spots obvious inconsistencies. Build it, make it open source, and we’ll plug it into our CI pipelines. (Image by Sora)

Программисты и их хозяева, бросайте работу, приходите послушать прямой эфир, на YouTube и VK.

В серию книг для настоящих мужчин необходимо включить трилогию о Жар-Птице: Контроль (1994), Выбор (1997) и Змееед (2011) — читать непременно в таком порядке. Автор — Виктор Суворов, бывший сотрудник легальной резидентуры ГРУ СССР в Женеве, в 1978 году бежавший в Великобританию, и заочно приговорённый в СССР к смертной казни. Автор известен прежде всего своей книгой Ледокол (1968) — в ней он первым предложил альтернативную и ныне запрещенную версию начала войны между СССР и Третьим Рейхом в 1941 году.

Every time a new contributor comes to one of our GitHub repositories with a pull request, I expect two annoying mistakes: 1) compound variable names, and 2) empty lines inside code blocks. Both are symptoms of untamed complexity — our main enemy. Which one of these two code snippets looks better for you?

We talked a few times why macOS is better than Windows. Moreover, in the Junior Objects book, I've said that if you use Windows you are not a real programmer. Finally, just published a blog post that explains my point in detail: Programmers, Don't Use Windows!

Do you listen to music while you code? A 2005 study by Teresa Lesiuk from the University of Windsor analyzed several dozen programmers across multiple companies and found that coding without music takes longer. Teresa suggests this is because “individuals are more energized and more alert through perceiving and physically responding to music.” Now, share your playlist! (Image by Sora)