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"Encourage your team members to ask each other questions along the following lines:
- How do I come across to you? Are there any adjustments I can make when interacting with you?
- ...’
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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NVIDIA just dropped free AI courses and they're INSANE:
No fees. No paywalls. No catch.
These will make you an AI expert in 2025.
Here are 6 courses you don't want to miss:
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people wildly underestimate how much an AGENTS .md file improves the output quality of AI generated code
my best tips for writing an effective one (with examples) in reply:
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This Google engineer just released a 424-page free book on Agentic Design Patterns.
Covers advanced prompt engineering, multi-agent frameworks, RAG, agent tool use and MCP.
100% free with practical code examples.
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a senior engineer at google just dropped a 400-page free book on docs for review: agentic design patterns.
the table of contents looks like everything you need to know about agents + code:
> advanced prompt techniques
> multi-agent patterns
> tool use and MCP
> you name it
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"TDD Is An Essential"
youtu.be/JDi3MSUd3zs?si=tsFD…
“@martinfowler talks to @davefarley77 about TDD, whether he thinks it is essential for large orgs in software & the term that he thinks sums up his preference more accurately.”
@CdContent
@ModernSoftwareX
#ModernSoftwareEngineering
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"Always be part of the loop by moving code by hand from your terminal to the LLM web interface: this guarantees that you follow every process. You are still the coder, but augmented." -- @antirez antirez.com/news/154
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Celebrating Agile Web Development with Rails 8 by Sam Ruby, now in print from The Pragmatic Programmers!
🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic-program…
📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/rails8
#ruby #rails #agile #webdevelopment #programming #pragprog #books
ALT book cover featuring a racing train in a streak of light
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"We'll all become quite rusty... and very dependent on these tools."
A warning from Annie Vella on Tech Lead Journal #223 about the risk of over-relying on AI.
Full clip: youtube.com/watch?v=F5nz4miV…
#AI #Developer #TechSkills
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A lot of what I consider the biggest achievements in my career now look quite trivial if we only had LLMs…
I wonder what that means.
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“This is the book I wish I had 30 years ago.”
That’s what readers are saying about The Software Developer’s Guidebook. It’s practical, focused, and grounded in engineering discipline.
Grab your copy here 👉 leanpub.com/softwaredevelope…
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Now available for ACM Members: "Looks Good to Me: Constructive Code Reviews," by @AdrienneTacke. Coverage of every part of the code review process, from choosing a system to keeping reviews manageable for everyone involved. Foreword by @shanselman. share.percipio.com/cd/HgJFJl…
ALT Looks Good to Me: Constructive Code Reviews book cover
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NEW POST
To work effectively with agentic coding assistants, Birgitta Böckeler found she needs to intervene, correct and steer all the time. She describes examples of these interventions indicating the skills we need to correct the tools' missteps
martinfowler.com/articles/ex…
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The IEEE republished a lightly edited version of my recent essay, "In Praise of 'Normal' Engineers". 🙌 spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engine…
The greatest engineering orgs in the world are not the most pedigreed, but the ones where normal engineers can move the business forward every day.
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Nicola Twilley reports on the latest attempts to mimic blood: the magical fluid that regulates, heals, and protects every human alive.
nyer.cm/yOX27R1
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Can any product made by one of the biggest manufacturers in the world, no matter how few it creates, really be that exclusive?
Tim McKeough unpacks the rise of “fauxclusivity” and how major labels cultivate indie mystique by playing hard to get:
thewalrus.ca/2006-03-fashion…
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Great teams aren’t a product of great workplaces. Great workplaces are a product of great teams. s.hbr.org/39uWZTy
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Companies run by their originators often have deep experience, earned legitimacy, and forgiving stakeholders. mitsmr.com/49QP3JF
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From riveting narrative features by Patrick Radden Keefe and Rachel Aviv to a story about a woman who lived in a cave for 500 days, here are the stories our readers spent the most time with this year. nyer.cm/Jiwsd0o
