AI How Gen Z Uses Gen AI and Why It Worries Them The authors surveyed ~2500 US adults ages 18-28 to learn about how they use AI. Most of them are using it as a productivity tool than for social…
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Professional Development – 2026 – Week 4
Software engineering The Best Programmers Use Tests for Engineering Like This Emily proposed some changes to Kent Beck’s test desiderata (2019), which is a list of desirable properties of tests. She mentioned approval tests. Two fundamental macro properties that are…
Professional Development – 2026 – Weeks 2 & 3
AI Introducing Agent Skills in VS Code Agent skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that load on demand. This is an open standard (i.e., it works in GitHub Cloud Agent, GitHub CLI, and other LLMs such as Claud…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 1
AI Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond Personal review: 2 out of 5 stars. This book has several useful techniques infuriatingly mixed with trifle and eye-rolling inducing comments backed up with no statistics. If you…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 52
AI AI Is Changing How We Learn at Work Leadership in AI Assisted Engineering – Justin Reock, DX Information Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI This was a thought provoking book about how…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 51
AI AI Tools Make Coders More Important, Not Less Software Engineering These 5 Ideas Power the Best Software Teams These ideas come from The Unicorn Project (2019) that followed the more popular book The Phoenix Project (2013). Although Dave is…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 50
AI I Did The Maths McKinsey Didn’t, and Their “The state of AI in 2025” Report Falls Apart Software Engineering AWS re:Invent 2025 – Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels We Tried Trunk-Based Development… The Results Were Shocking.
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 49
AI What’s Lost When We Work with AI, According to Neuroscience Software Engineering The Skill That Separates Good Developers from GREAT ONES (Design vs Coding)
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 48
AI How Behavioral Science Can Improve the Return on AI Investments AI Agents Aren’t Ready for Consumer-Facing Work — But They Can Excel at Internal Processes
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 47
AI How AI Layoffs Could Backfire on Employers Software Engineering What to Mock in an Integration Test Every Software Engineer Can Learn TDD (If They Do It Like This)