AI Stop Letting AI Wing It — Take Control of AI Coding Overview of Deep Learning One section of this course described what deep neural networks are and how they function. Generative AI Foundations: Getting Started This course covers various…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 37
AI The Case for Using Small Language Models Working Effectively with Legacy Code and AI Coding Assistant – Michael Feathers Is Testing Still A Developer’s Job In An AI World? Computer Vision: Executive Briefing This course gives a brief overview…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 36
AI AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models Stanford’s Practical Guide to 10x Your AI Productivity Nature What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds This was a fascinating book about owls — how they…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 35
AI AI Is a Hype-Fueled Dumpster Fire Advanced Context Engineering for Agents (by Dexter Horthy) Coaching Technical Coaching: From One Team to Many Teams Software development Can We Fix Software Engineering Estimation?
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 34
AI AI Startup Playbook 2025: A Founder/CTO’s Insights from AI Engineer World’s Fair AI Is Making the Workplace Empathy Crisis Worse How Microsoft Developers Use AI in Real-World Coding Change Management How to Successfully Drive Change When Everything is Uncertain
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 33
Software development Vibe Coding Is the Worst Idea of 2025 Dave Farley outlines the difference between coding and developing complex systems and what that means in terms of AI writing all of the code. He makes that case that much…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 32
Communication It’s Time to Streamline How We Communicate at Work This is about setting norms for forms of communication — responsiveness, using specific channels for specific uses, and making ready easy. One change I adopted about five years ago was…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 31
AI Research: The Hidden Penalty of Using AI at Work The researchers included over 28K software engineers at a company and found that, despite rolling out a state-of-the-art AI coding assistant, only 41% had used it and fewer older engineers…
Deep Rock Galactic MULE
A friend of mine has the Deep Rock Galactic board game that comes with multiple figures that can be painted. Of the six types of figures I’ve done from this set, this was the most frustrating. Over-painting corrections looked super…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 30
AI Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study) – Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford The New Code — Sean Grove, OpenAI Software development ‘Make the Code Change Easy’ Demo – Trivia Legacy Kata with Ivett Ördög Testing in Python 3…