A Coding Agent on Every Desk: Running Qwen on Bazzite Software Programming I recently decided to see how useful a coding model I could run on my own hardware. There is now a second graphics card in the mail, so you can probably guess how the experiment went.
Some Assembly Required: Using Doc Comments as Agent Instructions Software Programming .NET Anybody who has assembled IKEA furniture knows the story: a wordless booklet, a bag of cam locks, a stamped-metal hex key, and a cartoon person who seems inexplicably delighted about their situation. The booklet does a pretty good job of telling you that dowel A goes in hole B.
Testing Software at the Right Focal Length Software People generally agree that software should have automated tests. The trouble starts when you ask what kind. Nobody seems to agree on exactly what “unit test” means versus “integration test,” which tests should use mocked dependencies, or which should talk to real databases and external APIs.
