Marshall McLuhan said the medium is the message — the tool you use changes how you think, regardless of what you produce with it. That’s exactly what’s happening with AI-assisted development, and most developers aren’t paying attention to it. In this video I explore ways conversational AI doesn’t just change what you produce — it […]
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Evaluating the architecture of a system can be a very complicated process, with a lot of different possibilities for tools and techniques. In this video, we describe a mental model for evaluating architecture that helps us make sense and make the right decisions.
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AI assistants lead to an increase of the level of abstraction. This leads to a renewal of software engineering.
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Every week there’s a new story on how an AI agent has deleted stuff it shouldn’t have: local files, cloud documents, backups etc. It feels like DOS all over again. But you can run coding agents in a sandbox. Read this for techniques
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Learn about two alternative ways of designing products: modules by feature and OS for your domain
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Pure functions are functions that return the same value for the same input values, and don’t change the state of the system. Idempotency refers to functions that make the change a single time, if receiving the same relevant values – either input arguments or an identifier. These two concepts are related in that they help
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How is pepper useful, since it’s stored in plain text? It requires potential attacker to either get more information or work more. Learn more in this video.
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We have come to the conclusion that AI will either pop the bubble or disrupt full industries and the economy. We see that the agentic workflows are a disruptive force with the potential to automate a lot of existing business flows. Yet the progress is not visible to everyone while having the potential to be exponential, and therefore highly counter-intuitive.
AI – Pop or Disrupt? Read More »
Could tables be a universal UI and application engine? In this video, Alex introduces a small prototype of a table-based app
Tables as Universal Apps? – A Toy Read More »
A programmer recently asked me how he could switch to a cybersecurity role. The answer might surprise you.
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