Someone in one of the online forums I read asked: How quick are you to 'lay down the law' to colleagues who are doing things incorrectly? Do you do so at the first instance, do you wait for it to become a pattern? Do you escalate in forcefu…
I was going through a tough time in my senior year of college, when a dear friend handed me a book, and said: "Here, read this. It's short." The book she gave me was indeed short. I read it in about half an hour. I needed its lessons about
When you're stuck in traffic, do you find yourself blaming people for it? "I'm stuck in traffic because…" Because the highway department designed this road poorly. Because people are on their cell phones. Because the college kids are in tow…
What if problems don't always have a culprit? Exchanging "war stories" as developers can build relationships. Could it also build skill? How do we manage staggering amounts of information and keep learning? And is AI melting our brains? Why…
If a company can employ five people, and they'll feel pressured to do the work of eight to ten people, that sure sounds like a good deal for the company. Is it? We know that an athlete, a teacher, or a doctor won't perform well if they are
Hi! It's been a while. I've started writing to you several times, but every week I run out of time, and then I don't pick up that week's half-finished piece. Or a week goes by fast without my writing anything at all. So, I'm trying somethin…
Hey, readers. Week-before-last, I wrote the first question (Who benefits?) in what I was hoping would be a series of posts about questions I turn to frequently. But last week, I didn't write to you at all. The inspiration to write that seco…
Hey, readers. Week-before-last, I wrote the first question (Who benefits?) in what I was hoping would be a series of posts about questions I turn to frequently. But last week, I didn’t write to you at all. The inspiration to write that seco…
Vote for my Grace Hopper proposal Before I get into this week's content... I submitted a proposal to speak at the Grace Hopper Celebration! Whether or not you're attending this year's GHC, if you'd like to upvote my proposal to help me get
Before I get into this week’s content… I submitted a proposal to speak at the Grace Hopper Celebration! Whether or not you’re attending this year’s GHC, if you’d like to upvote my proposal to help me get on the Grace Hopper agenda, you can
You are not Steve Yegge. Even if you want to be. Even if you are, in fact, Steve Yegge. Steve is the co-author, along with Gene Kim, of the Vibe Coding book I’ve recommended in the past. He’s the creator of an AI coding orchestration tool c…
Reclaiming your humanity is necessary as protection against AI vampires. Even Steve Yegge will tell you so. Is it possible that AI can not just write code, but review it, too? If so, what do developers do? Is it because I'm struggling with