Top all-time · #5352
Rob Bowley
Personal blog · blog.robbowley.netprogrammingai
Rob Bowley's personal blog at blog.robbowley.net covers programming and ai. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Why AI won't work as a software development abstraction”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rob Bowley's blog for its analysis of why large software projects fail and how AI affects them, citing DORA and DX industry data. Only one commenter links it, as a data source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Adventures In Software Development
Most-linked posts?
- Why AI won't work as a software development abstraction2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-04
- AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-05
- Findings from DX's 2025 AI won't save you from your engineering culture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-05
What Hacker News says?
But my point wasn't about AI helping or not, my point was AI will simply accelerate the natural trajectory of your organization. This is not a hypothetical, this is based on reports using large-scale data like DORA and DX: https://blog.robbowley.net/2025/11/05/findings-from-dxs-2025... Edited to add: To clarify, I meant that if an organization was going to deliver a billion-dollar boondoggle of a project, AI will no…
Comment linking /2025/11/05/findings-from-dxs-2025-report-ai-wont-save-you-from-your-engineering-culture/
on “Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing”Submitted After the AI boom: what might we be left with? as a story · 162 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maybe it wasn't the tech after all as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're probably listening to the wrong people about AI Coding as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why you've probably got Object-Oriented Programming wrong all this time as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A plea to junior developers using GenAI coding assistants as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted SDLC is a power tool, not a compliance document as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms (2025) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why AI won't work as a software development abstraction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI threat is real, it just isn't the one in the headlines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Development: Sixty years of learning the same lesson as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster Horses, Not Trains as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Findings from DX's 2025 AI won't save you from your engineering culture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Typing is not the bottleneck" – illustrated as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why AI won't work as a software development abstraction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech gets the headlines, org change gets the results as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Estimation is at the root of most software project failures as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
