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Adam Tornhill
Personal blog · adamtornhill.substack.comprogrammingai
Adam Tornhill writes Code for Humans and Machines, a personal blog at adamtornhill.substack.com about programming and ai. Since 2026, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “An opinionated (and mainly correct) guide to naming”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Engineering software for a world where machines write the code: software design and practices for the agentic age.
Most-linked posts?
- An opinionated (and mainly correct) guide to naming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-24
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Five Programming Books That Changed How I Think as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do You Still Need to Read AI Code? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted An opinionated (and mainly correct) guide to naming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compressed Cognition: The Cost of Faster Coding as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practices I Abandoned with Agents: An Ode to Test-Driven Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Merge Conflicts Became the New Agentic Bottleneck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Agentic Coding as If People Still Mattered as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolutionary Refactoring: Let Agents Invent Codebase-Specific Patterns as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond Lambdas: Raising the Abstraction Level of Functional Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An opinionated (and mainly correct) guide to naming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding Is Dead ( But It Still Smells Funny) as a story · 1 points
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