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Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. AI and developer tools. Ex startup, ex Microsoft.

http://austinhenley.com

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A 6502 Emulator in LabVIEW
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The Verse Programming Language
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I implemented an ISO 42001-certified AI Governance program in 6 months
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You're a computer science major, don't panic
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The State Machine Professor
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Visual Studio 2026
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Weighting an Average to Minimize Variance
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You're a computer science major. Don't panic
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Wordplay: A language-inclusive programming language for interactive typography
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Command Line Interfaces and Progressive Enhancement (2011)
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That time I girl-bossed too hard at my tech job
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CodeAid: AI-powered programming assistant designed to facilitate learning
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A Quick Guide to the AIpocalypse
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Angel Investors, a Field Guide
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JermCAD: Browser-Based CAD Software
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Epic vs. Google settlement: Opening up Android
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My first fifteen compilers (2019)
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John Carmack on mutable variables
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Autopilot, Copilot, and Software Developers
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Thoughts on Cursor 2.0 and Cursor Compose
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Recursive functions cause infinite tree in VS Code’s call hierarchy view
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Sat Oct 25, 2025 7:49pm PST
Falsehoods programmers believe about names (2010)
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Sat Oct 25, 2025 2:15am PST
Should You Apply for a PhD in AI (2025-26)?
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Why We're Still Talking About "Human Error"
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Let's write a database: Ordering and limits
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Sat Oct 18, 2025 2:08pm PST
Generating Automatic Feedback on UI Mockups with Large Language Models
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Caveat Promptor
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Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:54pm PST
My Startup Diary: Techstars
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Wed Oct 15, 2025 3:13am PST
Inferring User Actions from Screen Recordings to Recommend Better Workflows
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Tues Oct 14, 2025 9:21pm PST
Debugging Safari: If at first you succeed, don't try again
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CMU Students Put AI Coding Tools to the Test
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Techstars Investment Terms Update
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AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Devs Want AI Support in Daily Work
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Caveat Prompter
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Autopilot, Copilot, and Software Developers
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AI Tools for Software Development (CMU Course)
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PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
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The First Decade as Faculty
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The Design Space of LLM-Based AI Coding Assistants [pdf]
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Tues Sep 30, 2025 1:20am PST
Answering Developer Questions with Annotated Agent-Discovered Program Traces [pdf]
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Sun Sep 28, 2025 4:09pm PST
Let's Write a Database
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Version Sort
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Let's Write a Database
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Walking Around the Compiler
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Representing Heterogeneous Data (2023)
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A Qualitative Study of Co-Creation, Communication, Flow, Trust in Vibe Coding
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Fri Sep 19, 2025 12:17pm PST
LLMs Hide Complexity
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Sun Sep 14, 2025 1:45am PST
The trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts
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Sun Sep 14, 2025 12:19am PST
If my kids excel, will they move away?
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How Developers Wield Agentic AI in Real Software Engineering Tasks
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Anonymous recursive functions in Racket
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Feeling cranky about AI and CS Education
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Chill, Y'all: AI Will Not Devour Software Engineering
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Baby's first type checker
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AI models need a virtual machine
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Pyret: A programming language for programming education
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Classical Papers in Computer Science and Software Engineering: A Reading Group
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What the interns have wrought, 2025
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Hasselblad X2D ii 100C
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My favorite developer productivity research method that nobody uses
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Sat Aug 23, 2025 12:13pm PST
A recipe for creating random fractals
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NASA's 10 rules for safety critical code
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StreetViewAI: Making Street View Accessible Using Context-Aware Multimodal AI [pdf]
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Easy will always trump simple
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Cline: Open-source AI coding, uncompromised
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Angel Investors, a Field Guide
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Compilation, Interpretation, and Environments [video]
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Angel Investors, a Field Guide
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Sun Aug 10, 2025 11:34pm PST
Hofstadter Esoteric Programming Language [video]
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A few programming language features I'd like to see (2023)
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Compiling a Lisp: Lambda lifting
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Assessing Students in the Era of AI
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Why do we even need SIMD instructions?
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MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
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What Is a Pedagogic IDE?
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Memory 2.0: Attentive Memory (2012)
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US Executive Order: Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
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Developers, Reinvented
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Names are not type safety (2020)
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Degrees are merely the receipts for the money you spent
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