Action absorbs anxiety
Arun Gupta, now a âfree agentâ after his surprise exit from Intel, joins us to discuss how heâs dealing with his first job hunt since the...
WeiterlesenMonth: August 2025
Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development
Iâm about to head away from looking after this site for a few weeks (part vacation, part work stuff). As I contemplate some weeks away from...
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From Black Box to Blueprint
A common enterprise problem: crucial legacy systems become âblack boxesââkey to operations but opaque and risky to touch. Thiyagu Palanisamy and Chandirasekar Thiagarajan worked with a...
WeiterlesenLogical Duals in Software Engineering
(Last week’s newsletter took too long and I’m way behind on Logic for Programmers revisions so short one this time.1) In classical logic, two operators F/G...
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Python documentary companion pod
Our friends at Cult.Repo launched their epic Python documentary on August 28th, 2025! To celebrate, we sat down with Travis Oliphant âcreator of NumPy, SciPy, and...
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Research, Review, Rebuild: Intelligent Modernisation with MCP and Strategic Prompting
The Bahmni open-source hospital management system was began over nine years ago with a front end using AngularJS and an OpenMRS REST API. Rahul Ramesh wished...
WeiterlesenBuilding your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI
CLI coding agents are a fundamentally different tool to chatbots or autocomplete tools – they’re agents that can read code, run tests, and update a codebase....
WeiterlesenChatting with Unmesh about building language with LLMs
A few weeks ago, Unmesh Joshi and I started having a conversation about how he likes to grow a language of abstractions when working with an...
WeiterlesenTesting Time (and other asynchronicities)
The Go Blog Testing Time (and other asynchronicities) Damien Neil 26 August 2025 In Go 1.24, we introduced the testing/synctest package as an experimental package. This...
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Omarchy 2.0: Best Linux setup ever?
Elon Musk and xAI take on Microsoft, DHH ships version 2 of Omarchy (his love letter to Linux), Glyn Normington on managing developerâs block, Mitchell Hashimoto...
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Build Better Agents With MorphLLM
Iâm an audiophile, which is a nice way to describe someone who spends their childrenâs college fund on equipment that yields no audible improvement in sound...
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Our Changelog & Friends proof-of-concept with Mat Ryer has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Originally recorded: 2023-02-08 Mat joins us for some good...
WeiterlesenCreative ways to fund open source projects
Every engineer and tech company likes open source projects, but few are willing to pay for them. This is fine for a while â enthusiasm to...
WeiterlesenFrom Chef to System Initiative (remastered)
The epic show with Adam Jacob has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Adam goes solo with Adam Jacob for an epic pod into...
WeiterlesenSapir-Whorf does not apply to Programming Languages
This one is a hot mess but it’s too late in the week to start over. Oh well! Someone recognized me at last week’s Chipy and...
WeiterlesenContainer-aware GOMAXPROCS
The Go Blog Container-aware GOMAXPROCS Michael Pratt and Carlos Amedee 20 August 2025 Go 1.25 includes new container-aware GOMAXPROCS defaults, providing more sensible default behavior for...
WeiterlesenBliki: Expansion Joints
Back in the days when I did live talks, one of my abilities was to finish on time, even if my talk time was cut at...
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Trust Calibration for AI Software Builders
Trust calibration is a concept from the world of human-machine interaction design, one that is super relevant to AI software builders. Trust calibration is the practice...
WeiterlesenNew trend: extreme hours at AI startups
Two months after publishing this article, The Wall Street Journal covered the same trend in its article AI workers are putting in 100-hour workweeks to win...
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Team OKRs in Action
OKRs have become a popular way to connect strategy with execution in large organizations. But when they are set in a topâdown cascade, they often lose...
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Impact Intelligence, addressing common objections
Sriram Narayan concludes his article in impact intelligence by addressing five common objections to this activity, including slowing down, lack of agility and collaboration, and the...
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The Go Blog Go 1.25 is released Dmitri Shuralyov, on behalf of the Go team 12 August 2025 Today the Go team is pleased to release...
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Games as Model Eval: 1-Click Deploy AI Town on Fly.io
Recently, I suggested that The Future Isnât Model Agnostic, that itâs better to pick one model that works for your project and build around it, rather...
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The Future Isn’t Model Agnostic
Your users donât care that your AI project is model agnostic. In my last project, I spent countless hours ensuring that the LLMs running my services...
WeiterlesenQuick but worthwhile links
Abi Noda observes Just met with a 2000+ eng company. Their developers are saving 2+ hours per week thanks to Copilot. But theyâre also losing: 3...
WeiterlesenActions to improve impact intelligence
Sriram Narayan continues his article on impact intelligence by outlining five actions that can be done to improve impact intelligence: introduce robust demand management, pay down...
WeiterlesenThe Reformist CTOâs Guide to Impact Intelligence
The productivity of knowledge workers is hard to quantify and often decoupled from direct business outcomes. The lack of understanding leads to many initiatives, bloated tech...
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Software books I wish I could read
New Logic for Programmers Release! v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with a new chapter on code proofs, three chapter overhauls,...
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How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation?
Birgitta Böckeler reports on a series of experiments we did to explore how far Generative AI can currently be pushed toward autonomously developing high-quality, up-to-date software...
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