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nilenso blog
Company blog · blog.nilenso.com/blogprogrammingai
nilenso blog is the company blog at blog.nilenso.com, writing about programming and ai. Since 2013, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “AI-assisted coding for teams that can't get away with vibes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on AI-assisted software development, including managing context and the 'unit of work' for delivering software, plus an older post on nesting CSS. Readers call the AI posts good and worth reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- AI-assisted coding for teams that can't get away with vibes8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2025-06-10
- How I keep up with AI progress5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-07-03
- The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-09-18
- The common sense unit of work3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-19
- Minimum Viable Benchmark (For Evaluating LLMs)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-04
- Weird System Prompt Artefacts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-14
- What are popular AI coding benchmarks measuring?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-25
- “I have cramps.” – our 3-word policy on menstrual leave2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-16
- Show HN: A tool to properly observe your LLM's context window2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-30
- Spreadsheets and Small Software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-21
What Hacker News says?
The quite good blog post mentioned by Karpathy for working with LLMs when building software: - https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/05/29/ai-assisted-coding/ See also: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44242051
Comment linking /blog/2025/05/29/ai-assisted-coding/
on “Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]”Submitted How I keep up with AI progress as a story · 284 points
HN discussion"What helps the human helps the AI" in https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/05/29/ai-assisted-coding/ In future I'll go "In the name of our new darling bot, let us unit test and refactor this complicated thing".
Comment linking /blog/2025/05/29/ai-assisted-coding/
on “Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update”Submitted The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management as a story · 170 points
HN discussionI enjoyed the emphasis on optimising the context window itself. I think that's the most important bit. An abstraction for this that seems promising to me for its completeness and size is a User Story paired with a research plan(?). This works well for many kinds of applications and emphasizes shipping concrete business value for every unit of work. I wrote about some of it here: https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09…
Comment linking /blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/
on “Getting AI to work in complex codebases”Submitted MCP explained without hype or fluff as a story · 168 points
HN discussionnilenso | Engineer | Bangalore, India | ONSITE, REMOTE (India) | http://nilenso.com nilenso is an employee-owned software cooperative. We work on problems that challenge us, in domains with high impact. And at the moment, we're looking for non-male applicants to improve gender diversity. We know that not everyone can or wants to work from our office in Bangalore. As of 2019, we have two fully remote employees on sta…
Comment linking /blog/2017/02/14/nilenso-policies-by-the-people-for-the-people/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted How to Co-Op: Salaries and Reviews as a story · 57 points
HN discussionIf someone is interested in doing this in India, here's our LLP agreement: - https://github.com/nilenso/cooperative-agreement . We've also written and talked about it a bit: - https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2014/11/19/huh-a-software-coop... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7K3E1Q_MBk
Comment linking /blog/2014/11/19/huh-a-software-cooperative/
on “A document to help you start a tech cooperative”Submitted Why does AI feel so different? as a story · 56 points
HN discussion100% - read this - https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/
Comment linking /blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/
on “Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform”Submitted The common sense unit of work as a story · 30 points
HN discussion"Unit of work" here is the unit for software delivery, and it can be decoupled from how any individual developer plans and executes whatever software they are delivering. Product requirements are a hypothesis for creating business value, and the only way to test that hypothesis is to actually demonstrate a slice of that value in a way that's legible to all stakeholders involved. This post is a nice articulation of t…
Comment linking /blog/2025/09/17/the-common-sense-unit-of-work/
on “The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management”Submitted My Quarterly System Health Check-In: Beyond the Dashboard as a story · 21 points
HN discussion- everything that simon writes ( https://simonwillison.net/ ) - anything that goes deep into issues (I seldom read “i love llms” type posts like this is great: https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/ ) - lots of experimentation - specifically I have spent hours and hours doing the exact same feature (my record is 23 times). - if something “doesn’t work” I create a task immediately to investigate an…
Comment linking /blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/
on “Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?”Submitted How I keep up with AI progress as a story · 15 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-...
Comment linking /blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-progress/
on “Ask HN: How do you stay on top of AI tech?”Submitted AI-assisted coding for teams that can't get away with vibes as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThought this was relevant now that browser support is finally rolling out. Slightly different syntax, but the same arguments apply to both. Note: The post has migrated here, but I found the original link much easier to read. https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2013/09/08/you-probably-should...
Comment linking /blog/2013/09/08/you-probably-shouldn-t-be-nesting-your-css/
on “You probably shouldn't be nesting your CSS”Submitted Show HN: A tool to properly observe your LLM's context window as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I keep up with AI progress as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI-assisted coding for teams that can't get away with vibes as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted “I have cramps.” – our 3-word policy on menstrual leave as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tiny Models, Local Throttles: Exploring My Local AI Dev Setup as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Artisanal shims for the bitter lesson age as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The common sense unit of work as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trajectory shapes are work habits as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Checking my model vibes against SWE-Bench Pro as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taste and Adjust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to work with product: To what port do you sail? as a story · 3 points
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