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Abi Noda
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Abi Noda writes Engineering Enablement, a personal blog at newsletter.getdx.com about programming, business and career. Since 2024, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “What causes 'bad days' for developers?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Abi Noda's newsletter covers developer productivity and AI coding. Commenters cite its posts on how hard productivity is to measure and on LLM performance across repeated coding attempts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Research and perspectives on developer productivity.
Most-linked posts?
- What causes 'bad days' for developers?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-25
- 2024 Dora Report Takeaways2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-30
What Hacker News says?
Measuring productivity in software development, or even white collar jobs in general, let alone the specific productivity gains of even things like the introduction of digital technology and the internet at all , let alone stuff like static vs dynamic types, or the productivity difference of various user interface modalities, is notoriously extremely difficult. Why would we expect to be able to do it here? https://e…
Comment linking /p/difficult-to-measure
on “AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power”Submitted Can LLMs earn $1M from real freelance coding work? as a story · 25 points
HN discussionThis resonated with me based on my recent experience using Claude to help me code. I almost gave up, but re-phrased the initial request (after 7-10 failed tries) and it finally nailed it. > 3. Performance improves with multiple attempts Allowing the o1 model 7 attempts instead of 1 nearly tripled its success rate, going from 16.5% to 46.5%. This hints that current models may have the knowledge to solve many more pro…
Comment linking /i/160797867/performance-improves-with-multiple-attempts
on “Can LLMs earn $1M from real freelance coding work?”Submitted What's a good developer survey participation rate? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What are code reviews even for? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cognitive debt: The hidden risk in AI-driven software development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI cut new hire onboarding from 91 to 49 days as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What causes 'bad days' for developers? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Design Reviews at Google as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why aren't AI productivity gains higher? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI productivity gains are 10%, not 10x as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft research: What causes 'bad days' for developers? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Effects of Technical Debt on Morale (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Summarizing 100 research papers on the effects of time pressure in development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Applying the Space Framework as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five studies changing how I think about AI in software engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The current impact of AI on engineering velocity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI Efficiency Plateau as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Principles for Measuring Developer Productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2024 Dora Report Takeaways as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2024 Dora Report as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Research: Cognitive Load Drivers in Large Scale Software Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of Developer Experience 2024 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Human Side of Software Engineering Teams as a story · 1 points
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