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Issue 23.3

COLUMN

Best of the Web

Great programming articles you may have missed

Issue: 23.3 (May/June 2025)
Author: Marc Zeedar
Author Bio: Marc taught himself programming in high school when he bought his first computer but had no money for software. He's had fun learning ever since.
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Here I share links to interesting programming-related articles from around the web. Note that these may not have anything to do with Xojo, and I don't necessarily advocate the opinions shared—I simply think they're worth reading for a broader perspective.

AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think

David Oliver (https://www.doliver.org/articles/programming-is-a-thinkers-game)

Excerpt: It's easy to write bad code that looks like it might work; writing good code that does work is much more time consuming. So, engineering workflows should be more about thinking and discussing than writing code. And, given the plethora of battle-tested packages and example code out there, and given that most code applications (packages, programs, web apps, etc.) are fairly similar to each other, reasoning about our code application and filling in the gaps for the 10% of our work that's actually different from everything else is really what software engineering is really about.

Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code

Bill Gates (https://www.gatesnotes.com/microsoft-original-source-code)

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