#software-engineering

10 məqalə

Remote Work Killed Mentorship — How Senior Engineers Can Fix It

A junior spent 3 weeks stuck on a 20-minute fix. Remote work killed osmosis learning. Seven practices that rebuild mentorship for distributed teams.

25 aprel 202616 dəq.6

#ai #python #software-engineering

Testing LLM Applications Is Nothing Like Testing Regular Software — Here's What Actually Works

200 unit tests passed. The chatbot still hallucinated a dentist's phone number. LLM testing needs evals, LLM-as-judge, and regression for non-determinism.

23 aprel 202616 dəq.6

#career #software-engineering #opinion

The Staff Engineer Trap: Why the Best ICs Get Promoted Into Misery

She got promoted to Staff, spent 18 months in crisis, and left for a Senior role. The staff engineer trap is real — here's how to avoid it.

24 aprel 202616 dəq.5

#career #software-engineering #ai

The Specialist vs Generalist Divide: Why the 2026 Job Market Rewards Depth Over Breadth

SWE postings down 49% from peak. AI roles up 340%. Junior hiring collapsed 73%. The market is bifurcating and depth sets the price.

4 aprel 202612 dəq.5

#ai #developer-productivity #software-engineering

The METR Study: AI Tools Made Experienced Developers 19% Slower

A rigorous RCT found AI coding tools slowed down experienced developers by 19%. The developers themselves believed they were 20% faster. The perception-reality gap changes everything.

4 aprel 202614 dəq.5

#ai #llm #python

LLM Evals Are Broken — How to Actually Test Your AI App Before Users Do

65% of companies use generative AI. Almost none test it properly. Here's the eval framework that caught our $47K hallucination disaster.

13 aprel 202616 dəq.4

#database #postgresql #architecture

Database Design Patterns Every Developer Should Know

From normalization to sharding, the patterns that matter in production and the mistakes that cost teams millions.

5 aprel 202617 dəq.4

#software-engineering #opinion #career

Technical Debt Is a Lie Engineers Tell Managers

Technical debt costs $2.41T/year. But the metaphor itself is the problem. It's a communication failure, not a code problem. Here's what to say instead.

11 aprel 202615 dəq.3

#ai #software-engineering #career

Vibe Coding vs Agentic Engineering: The Distinction That Defines Your Career

Karpathy coined both terms a year apart. One builds $400M startups. The other lost Amazon 6.3 million orders. The difference is about to define which developers thrive.

4 aprel 202614 dəq.3

#typescript #developer-tools #performance

Playwright Won the Browser Testing Wars — Here's the Only Guide You Need

Playwright: 45% adoption, 78K GitHub stars, 2-3x faster than Selenium. Auto-wait killed flaky tests. Migration guide from Cypress and Selenium.

27 mart 202610 dəq.1