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We've been using the wrong mental model to describe software development AI agents and this might be limiting the value engineers can...

We've been using the wrong mental model to describe software development AI agents and this might be limiting the value engineers can extract from these tools. https://buff.ly/CLslpND #codeassistants #llm #softwareengineering #ai

I actually played a bit with prompts to try to get it to make more questions before proposing a solution but I guess the way AIs are...

I actually played a bit with prompts to try to get it to make more questions before proposing a solution but I guess the way AIs are currently trained makes them extremely anxious to spit out answers.

What makes someone an expert in their field? R: Answering "it depends" to any question they get asked. So there you have it, if...

What makes someone an expert in their field? R: Answering "it depends" to any question they get asked. So there you have it, if you want expert AIs they need to gather much more context about what we are trying to achieve.

AIs will become a lot more accurate and useful when they start making questions before giving an answer

AIs will become a lot more accurate and useful when they start making questions before giving an answer

The Future of Programming https://buff.ly/LcQ0PEm

The Future of Programming https://buff.ly/LcQ0PEm

The digital version of my book is currently heavily discounted on the publisher's site. Go grab your copy!...

The digital version of my book is currently heavily discounted on the publisher's site. Go grab your copy!
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-0995-8

So far I've had no success doing any significant code refactoring using AI. It always ends up with code that is too bloated, it...

So far I've had no success doing any significant code refactoring using AI. It always ends up with code that is too bloated, it abstracts more than it should and over-complicates things. It frequently breaks nuanced use-cases or forgets something. To me it's still far away from something that can be trusted working with production code.

"...the success of your personal career is directly linked to the success of the product you are building. Moreover, your career is...

"...the success of your personal career is directly linked to the success of the product you are building. Moreover, your career is also directly linked to the success of your teammates..."

#SoftwareEngineering #TeamWork #Career #Ownership
https://open.substack.com/pub/strategicengineering/p/boost-your-career-by-supporting-your?r=574w3j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"Everything you see in Notion is a block. Text, images, lists, a row in a database, even pages...

"Everything you see in Notion is a block. Text, images, lists, a row in a database, even pages themselves"
https://www.notion.com/blog/data-model-behind-notion

How Postgres stores data on disk

How Postgres stores data on disk

Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Productshttps://pocket.co/share/e4cbb317-7786-447c-af83-61124f603024?utm_source=pocket_reader

Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products
https://pocket.co/share/e4cbb317-7786-447c-af83-61124f603024?utm_source=pocket_reader

I expected Cursor Compose to be better at refactoring but I've notice it often makes small mistakes or simply forgets some piece of the...

I expected Cursor Compose to be better at refactoring but I've notice it often makes small mistakes or simply forgets some piece of the code and because of that I end up not trusting it with the job. It's hard to identify these small issues within a change that involves multiple files so to ensure things won't break I prefer doing it myself.

"When reading code, you put things like values of variables, control flow logic and call sequences into your head. The average person...

"When reading code, you put things like values of variables, control flow logic and call sequences into your head. The average person can hold roughly four such chunks in working memory. Once the cognitive load reaches this threshold, it becomes much harder to understand things."

https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load

"Fixing your process won't get you out of a crisis. During a crisis, your goal should be to get out of it, not to fix your...

"Fixing your process won't get you out of a crisis. During a crisis, your goal should be to get out of it, not to fix your operation."

https://open.substack.com/pub/strategicengineering/p/fix-the-issue-first-improve-the-process?r=574w3j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#RiskManagement hashtag#SoftwareEngineering

"as long as you are doing your work well and continuously working on the next most important thing prioritised by the business, any...

"as long as you are doing your work well and continuously working on the next most important thing prioritised by the business, any pressure to deliver beyond what your team is capable of is objectively unreasonable."

https://pocket.co/share/5ed037fe-6913-495b-afab-02aeb5bef6eb

"Software quality is more the result of a system designed to produce quality, and not so much the result of individual...

"Software quality is more the result of a system designed to produce quality, and not so much the result of individual performance."

#softwareengineering #softwarequality

https://pocket.co/share/94666ae3-15d9-4f60-8e87-8e3add46b964?utm_source=pocket_reader

"The point is, 480 is divisible by a lot of numbers — which provides flexibility to add or remove physical hosts while preserving...

"The point is, 480 is divisible by a lot of numbers — which provides flexibility to add or remove physical hosts while preserving uniform shard distribution."

Great insights on database sharding from the Notion team https://www.notion.com/blog/sharding-postgres-at-notion

The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks has been on my reading list longer than I'm willing to admit, but I'm happy that this has...

The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks has been on my reading list longer than I'm willing to admit, but I'm happy that this has finally changed...

#softwareengineering #technicalbooks #softwaredevelopment

https://open.substack.com/pub/strategicengineering/p/50-years-of-the-mythical-man-month?r=574w3j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Não tô conseguindo linkar minha conta aqui com o Fedica, estava funcionando antes, alguém teve esse problema tbm?

Não tô conseguindo linkar minha conta aqui com o Fedica, estava funcionando antes, alguém teve esse problema tbm?

"paradoxically, even as we have higher and higher level programming tools with better and better abstractions, becoming a proficient...

"paradoxically, even as we have higher and higher level programming tools with better and better abstractions, becoming a proficient programmer is getting harder and harder."

https://pocket.co/share/0e21eef5-4096-4e15-928f-ffaf61baf3d2?utm_source=pocket_reader