In most engineering circles, clean, elegant code is the gold standard, but Block's chief technology officer said that's overrated. Dhanji Prasanna, the fintech company's technology lead, said on an ...

Speaking on Lenny's Podcast on Sunday, Prasanna said that too many engineers equate technical perfection with business success. "A lot of engineers think that code quality is important to building a ...

Large language models (LLMs) seemed to arrive in a flash. Monumental productivity gains were promised. Coding assistants flourished. Millions of multi-line code blocks were generated with a key press ...