Links — #code-quality

Coding models are doing too much (Apr 26, 2026)
Why minimal-editing matters: a model that rewrites untouched code produces noisier diffs and more regressions than one that surgically edits.
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Technical, cognitive, and intent debt (Apr 26, 2026)
Martin Fowler on three flavours of debt LLM-assisted coding can create — and why intent debt is the most insidious.
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On sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing (Apr 26, 2026)
Kevin Lynagh on the patterns by which capable engineers reliably wreck their own projects — usually by trying too hard.
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Write less code, be more responsible (Apr 26, 2026)
orhun on AI-assisted programming as a discipline of restraint — letting the model help, but accepting fewer lines than it offers.
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Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension (Mar 1, 2026)
What happens when teams ship faster than they can understand their own code.
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I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand | Abhinav Omprakash (Feb 8, 2026)
Relatable piece on the downsides of agentic tools, with a technique to escape the slot machine.
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What Makes Code Hard To Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity (Mar 11, 2025)
Visual patterns that make code mentally fatiguing to audit, and what to do about them.
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