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Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

A post from alan w. smith

A comprehensive guide to Claude Code from someone who's been using coding AI since 2021. Learn the 5 pillars of agentic coding, custom commands, and advanced...

After learning that people were finding my content via LLMs, I tried using said LLMs to make them find me even more often!

Formats over apps.

Sharing a reluctant, "node & postgres" approach to engineering management for early-stage startups

Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the...

The job of software developer is dead. You might still be coding, but the profession as you knew it is gone.

Everyone is either offended or excited about "vibe coding." It's all the rage and going to solve all your problems, or it's the next great evil spewing crap...

AI did not kill code review. It made the burden of proof explicit. Ship changes with evidence like manual verification and automated tests, then use review f...

Have one main focus and keep it that way.

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

We recently passed the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene and its devastating impact on Western North Carolina. As a web developer, I am thinking again...

Hunting timeless insights into humans and software and helping others on the way.

How I charged a company $18,000 for a single page and got away with it. My impostor syndrom kicked in.

Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving ...

AI is transforming digital agencies and web development at an accelerating pace. To stay relevant, agencies must evolve beyond commoditized technical work and...

Password managers promise you only need to remember one password, but I keep eight of them in my head to avoid a single point of failure.