How to do valuable work in 2026 - Hugo Montenegro

kept by lunavoyage oct 02

AI now outperforms humans at coding, making context, product intuition, initiative, and communication the key sources of valuable engineering work in 2026.

Can Agents Design Libraries for Agents?
LibraryDesignBench evaluates agent‑generated libraries by measuring how much they reduce code for downstream agents, revealing that agents mimic human designs but improve when explicitly guided to optimize for agent usage.
also on Opus 5.5, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Why most product tours get skipped
Users skip product tours because they interrupt task completion, and commenters suggest unobtrusive help or intuitive design instead.
also on Discord, #user-experience, #software-engineering, #productivity, #developer-tools
Diffs, from Pierre
@pierre/diffs is an open-source diff and code rendering library built on Shiki, offering customizable layouts, theming, and annotation support.
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We're building multiplayer AI. Here's what we've learned so far
PostHog shares lessons from building multiplayer AI, identifying shared context, portable artifacts, and organizational scope as key design challenges beyond simple chat-based interfaces.
also on PostHog, Claude, #user-experience, #ai-coding, #productivity, #developer-tools
I wrote a 70x faster SQL parser while barely looking at the code - PostHog
The author used AI agents to rewrite PostHog's SQL parser in Rust, achieving a 70x speedup (454x in production) via property-based testing and oracle-based development.
also on PostHog, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #productivity, #developer-tools