A recent post by Simon Wardley makes the point that the transition to AI will take a while because it requires practices to emerge and be accepted, to co-evolve with AI. Alex analyzes and comments this theory. Links:
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What’s orchestration? What’s choreography? How do we choose between them? If you’ve ever asked these questions, this is the video for you.
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Alex talks about 5 useful tools he used in 2025:
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Following the Shai Hulud worm and its Shai Hului 2.0 follow up, supply chain attacks have gained visibility in the development space. But what are they? How can we prevent them? What can we do when we build embedded systems? Spoiler alert: audit, pin versions, identify packages based on cryptographic hashes, use SBOMs, scan for
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Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon, has published recently a set of predictions for 2026 and beyond. We focus on one of them: “The dawn of renaissance developers”.
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After going through our courses on clean code, refactoring, TDD, or software design, a common question is “how do I convince my colleagues to follow these practices?”. The answer is more subtle than you might expect, and it involves an interesting trip to the patterns community.
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Can Claude help with infrastructure automation? Alex took it for a spin, and these are his conclusions: an experience report on using Claude to learn and solve infrastructure automation problems. A few brief ideas: Learn more from the video!
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Doing the simplest thing that could possibly work often involves incremental thinking: the engineering practice of splitting a large problems into smaller problems so that their resolution grows into the solution that you are looking for. Let’s see a definition and a few examples.
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LLMs have many ethical implications, and we decided to tackle them head on in this video, in the context of using AI assistants to generate code and other software development artifacts. The brief:The top issues for using LLMs for software development are: copying the whole internet to build the models, possible copyright infringement in generated
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A common argument against using AI coding assistants is that typing is not the bottleneck and therefore they are not useful. But does this argument stand? Let’s dive in.
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