AI Has AI Conquered Coding? (It’s Not So Simple…) Cal Newport (computer science professor and author) discusses a recent essay by Lars Faye, Agentic Coding Is a Trap. To validate whether Lars’ statements had merit, Cal conferred with a colleague…
AI Agents Don’t Do Standups: Building the Post-Engineer Engineering Org Microsoft reports are exposing AI’s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees Companies such as Microsoft and Uber that pushed employees to use AI…
AI GitHub’s internal playbook for building an AI-powered workforce This provides insight into how GitHub applies AI internally. What I found interesting was the section about metrics, most of which are activity or output metrics (read: not all that useful)….
Software engineering Red Green Refactor is OP With Claude Code This short video describes how TDD is an excellent candidate when using AI tools.
AI Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment After watching the video, I don’t know how the title applies. Most of the talk is about a beta application (ACE) GitHub is developing to make AI-enabled SDLC have…
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AI This is Why AI Could Replace Programmers Everything We Got Wrong About Research-Plan-Implement Slop vs Craft The 7 Skills You Need to Build AI Agents Testing 100% Test Coverage is a LIE, Here’s Why
AI The Junior Developer CRISIS: How to Build a Team When AI Does the Entry-Level Work Managers and Executives Disagree on AI—and It’s Costing Companies Senior leaders see a rosier view of AI because of how they use AI (synthesis,…
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It This book should be required reading if you work in tech today. It discusses a common cycle in tech platforms where they first subsidize user growth with investor…
AI LLMs Are Manipulating Users with Rhetorical Tricks The author links to a study where 72 (of 244) consultants pushed back on AI’s recommendations. In many cases AI strengthened its rhetoric to persuade the human that the original answer was…