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Thomas Dohmke
Personal blog · ashtom.github.ioaiprogrammingcareer
Thomas Dohmke's personal blog at ashtom.github.io covers ai, programming and career. Since 2025, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Developers, Reinvented”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Thomas Dohmke's post 'developers-reinvented' argues that computer science education needs reinventing for AI. Comments discuss its timing around his GitHub departure and dispute its view of the field.
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.
Random thoughts. Mostly about software development.
Most-linked posts?
- Developers, Reinvented8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2025-08-04
- The Dawn of Showercoding2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-13
What Hacker News says?
Am I the only one who find it a bit uncouth/weird to do this last week https://ashtom.github.io/developers-reinvented and peace out this week?
Comment linking /developers-reinvented
on “Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub”Submitted Developers, Reinvented as a story · 12 points
HN discussionFrom the CEO's article referenced in that post [1]: > the rise of AI in software development signals the need for computer science education to be reinvented as well. > Teaching in a way that evaluates rote syntax or memorization of APIs is becoming obsolete He thinks computer science is about memorizing syntax and APIs. No wonder he's telling developers to embrace AI or quit their careers if he believes the entire…
Comment linking /developers-reinvented
on “GitHub pull requests were down”Submitted AI for Coding Is Inevitable as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dawn of Showercoding as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers, Reinvented as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers, Reinvented as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers, Reinvented as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers, Reinvented as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers, Reinvented as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes Autonomy Work? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dawn of Showercoding as a story · 1 points
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