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…
Professional Development – 2025 – Weeks 28 & 29
AI Why Understanding AI Doesn’t Necessarily Lead People to Embrace It “Our studies found that the greater interest in AI wasn’t because people with less knowledge thought AI was more capable or more ethical. Quite the opposite: People with lower…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 27
Business Gen-Z Workforce: AI Can’t Replace A Critical Generation In The Talent Pipeline I’m all for this idea of getting fresh perspectives from younger folks and partnering them with more senior people for cross-learning. Cognitive bias Research: Executives Who Used…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 25
AI The AI Revolution Won’t Happen Overnight This article was full of insights that don’t break through the media hype around AI. The transformation will be impactful, but will be “slower, messier, and far less lucrative in the short term.”…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 24
AI Is the AI Apocalypse Inevitable? ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study Caveat (even called out in the article) — this hasn’t undergone peer-review and the sample size isn’t very high. I, too,…