Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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What Are You Trying to Pull?
A single cache miss is more expensive than many instructions.
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Code Hoarding
Committing to commits, and the beauty of summarizing graphs.
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Outsourcing Responsibility
What do you do when your debugger fails you?
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A Lesson in Resource Management
Waste not memory, want not memory — unless it doesn't matter.
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Cherry-Picking and the Scientific Method
Software is supposed be a part of computer science, and science demands proof.
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Swamped By Automation
Whenever someone asks you to trust them, don't.
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Can More Code Mean Fewer Bugs?
The bytes you save today may bite you tomorrow.
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A Nice Piece of Code
Colorful metaphors and properly reusing functions.12