software-engineering

It’s 2024 so there’s got to be a post about AI. My only perspective about AI is from a consumer’s standpoint. I don’t understand AI much aside from a few basic concepts I learned in a machine learning college course I took in 2019. Mundane Tasks I use both GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to help me accomplish a some boring mundane tasks. These AI tools are Good Enough for something like reformatting/transforming a CSV to another data format, remembering command line switches, regular expressions, or date string formatting....

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations. I feel like Accelerate was an OK book. I picked this book up after seeing it recommended from Charity’s blog. I was hopeful for some mind blowing content, but it mostly provided confirmation of some truths I’ve encountered in industry a decade ago. What I liked: Research-backed conclusions about engineering methodologies. The book provides a reader some vocabulary, techniques, research, and links to business outcomes....