"It Works" Has Never Been Good Enough
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Two Pillars Protocol — A maturity model for AI-era software engineering
Software engineering has had maturity models for forty years. CMMI told organizations whether their processes were repeatable. ISO/IEC 33000 told them…
People Without Dirty Hands Are Wrong
A Tale of Two Managers Erin Erin was a newly-promoted manager over a software engineering team. She had been hired 5 years ago as a junior developer a…
Month 1: From Zero to Building Real Tools.
I Learned Python for 30 Days Straight — Here's Everything I Built A month ago I had never written a line of Python. I'd been meaning to start for two …
How to Actually Become a Programmer: The Hard Part Nobody Wants to Explain
There is a comfortable myth around becoming a programmer . It says you can watch a few courses, copy a few tutorials, build a portfolio app, learn a m…
From Supervised to Independent: A Six-Month Framework for Mentoring Engineers
This is about the specific, repeatable mechanics of taking a junior engineer and moving them in roughly six months from "needs review on every task" t…
We Built a Platform to Help Beginners in Computer Science Stop Feeling Lost
When most students enter computer science, they don't actually know where they're going. Some think they want to become AI engineers because social me…
The Developer Pay Paradox: Are Junior Devs, Staff Engineers and Most Developers Over- or Under-paid?
The software salary debate usually turns into two groups yelling past each other. One side sees a junior developer making $90k or $100k and says tech …
I Built a Job Hunt System for Developers. Here is Why You Need It.
Job hunting as a developer is broken. You send 50 applications. You hear back from 2. One is a rejection. The other is a ghost. This happened to me ov…
AI Can Write Your Code. But It Can’t Design Your System.
We are living in the golden age of developer productivity. With tools like Copilot and ChatGPT, you can generate hundreds of lines of boilerplate and …