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Developers, Your Job Is Not To Write Code
The advice I've consistently given to developers who want to grow might seem counter-intuitive, but it's always held true for me—the first step to being a great developer is recognizing that your job is not to write code.
How To Care About Your Job When It Doesn't Care About You
We all want to do awesome things and make an impact at work. However, what we call “work” is a relationship between employer and employee that's inherently and persistently designed to benefit the former over the latter. How do we meaningfully contribute, earn a living, and maybe
Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
This post was discussed in HackerNews, Lobsters, and r/coding. You can check also my response to some comments.
4 billion if statements
I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmer’s attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science. The modulus operation.
10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code | The PyCharm Blog
Learn practical optimization hacks, from data structures to built-in modules, that boost speed, reduce overhead, and keep your Python code clean.
What AI is Really For - Christopher Butler
After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the
So You Want To Speak At Software Conferences? : dylanbeattie.net
An article from dylanbeattie.net
Making RSS More Fun
I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
Essential ingredients for enterprise AI success - Stack Overflow
Here, we’ve distilled the survey findings, laid out action items for leadership, and dug into recommendations around agentic AI for the enterprise. Spoiler alert: It all comes back to data quality.
We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs
How quarterly fixit weeks help teams tackle small annoyances that never bubble up to the priority list.
A Unified Theory Of Ego, Empathy, And Humility At Work
In our daily lives empathy and humility are obvious virtues we aspire to. They keep our egos in check. Less obvious is that they're practical skills in the workplace, too. I think, for developers and technical leaders in particular, that the absence of ego is the best way to furt
How Stack Overflow’s MCP Server is helping HP modernize the software development lifecycle - Stack Overflow
HP‘s Distinguished Technologist Evan Scheessele shares how better knowledge access is allowing HP to experiment and modernize their software development lifecycle with the help of the Stack Internal MCP Server.
Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.
Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems
Someone pointed out that Jeff Atwood wrote this same thing in 2008. Jeff references Bruce Eckel from 2007 , and Bruce references Gerald...
How to Create a Weapon System in Unreal Engine 5
This tutorial covers how to create a weapon inventory system with the ability to switch between different weapons.
The Country That Broke Kotlin
Logic vs language: how a Turkish alphabet bug played a years-long game of hide-and-seek inside the Kotlin compiler
Why your boss isn't worried about AI
Can't you just turn it off?.
Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation
It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically proven ...
Emergent introspective awareness in large language models \\ Anthropic
Research from Anthropic on the ability of large language models to introspect
AI agents will succeed because one tool is better than ten - Stack Overflow
AI agents can chat, use tools, and write new code all from one interface. That's why they'll last.
LLMs Can Get Brain Rot
Exploring the phenomenon of 'brain rot' in large language models and its implications for AI cognition.