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If you’re writing software that solves these problems well you’ll at least keep a job for a while.

Bots, not so much. Look at any social media platform and you’ll see a flood of bots hawking their new AI wares to make a buck. It’s already true that the enshitification-larity was achieved on the likes of Facebook, expect the trend to accelerate.

Email spam tools are mostly “done” with a consistent update cadence required to keep the barbarians at the gate.

The velocity of code generation and deployment is off the rails. We already had a software quality problem before augmented coding took the paradigm to eleven. Expect code quality and recovery to become even more critical.

Agents creating hundreds of thousands of lines of code isn’t free. AnySphere, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and AWS are all subsidizing the real cost of augmented workflows to varying degrees. It’s understandable that they are given their need to keep developers coming to their walled gardens.

The next big frontiers of software development:

1. Augmented workflow optimization
2. F1-level recovery and quality control systems
3. Bot spam management

Learn Neovim A comprehensive guide to mastering Neovim, the modern Vim fork with enhanced features for efficient text editing and coding

Neovim 😉

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The CLI is the promised land for software development.

A List of OSPO Resources: Guides, Tools, and Communities for Open Source Program Offices Curated OSPO resources for starting and running an OSPO: guides, tools, communities, and maturity models from TODO Group, Linux Foundation, and OSPO Alliance.

Structure is not the enemy of openness. It's what makes it sustainable.

These resources show how experienced teams balance both.

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#OpenSource #OSPO #Collaboration #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

Cool, I hope they offered tacos! 🌮🌮🌮

A List of Software Engineering Blogs: Tech Company Engineering Blogs A curated directory of software engineering blogs from leading technology companies. Find engineering blogs from Meta, Google, Netflix, AWS, and more. Includes RSS feeds and covers system design, API ...

I trust Netflix’s engineers more than most tech influencers.

Here's a curated list of real engineering blogs written by people shipping real software.

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#Blogs #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

What Are Agent Skills? Agent Skills explained: why they exist, how they work conceptually, and how they solve AI agent capability gaps through reusable procedural knowledge packages.

If you've given instructions to an LLM twice, you could have written a skill.

What Agent Skills are, and how they can replace manual prompt chains.

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#AgentSkills #Claude #ClaudeCode #MCP #AI #GenAI

A List of Open Source LLMs: Coding and Writing Models for Local AI A list of open-source language models for coding and writing. Compare code LLMs, writing models, and coding AI tools that work with Ollama, LM Studio, and Jan.

You'll need a backup plan when Office 365 Copilot (Clippy 📎) goes down and when OpenAI runs out of money. 💸

Here's a list of Open Source LLMs ready to save you from cloud-hosted LLMs.

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#LLMs #GPT #OpenSource #Ollama #AI #ChatGPT #Copilot #

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#ICE #Corruption #Politics #Republicans #GOP #Insurrection #Sedition #Traitors

Choosing between centralized and distributed systems doesn’t have to be ideological.

Learn how to make decisions based on constraints, not trends.

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#SoftwareArchitecture #SystemDesign #DistributedSystems #Monolith #Microservices #SoftwareFundamentals

How a codebase written entirely with AI runs

#AI #GenAI #RubeGoldberg #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

Fundamentals of Program Management Learn program management fundamentals: coordinating multiple projects, managing interdependencies, and aligning work with strategic objectives. Understand why programs exist and how they work.

Your software delivery program's plan says “TBD,” while your dependencies say “LOL.”

Learn to replace software delivery vibes with clarified and realistic dependency coordination.

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#Program #Software #Delivery

Fundamentals of Software Project Management Learn core software project management principles: scope, time, cost, quality. Understand why software projects fail and how to deliver on time and budget.

The Death Star blew up because someone put a critical dependency on a single exhaust port.

Learn how single points of failure kill projects.

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#Projects #ProjectManagement #SoftwareEngineering #ProductManagement #Software #SoftwareDevelopment

I see you, aspiring developers. 👀

#AI #GenAI #IT #Career #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

What Is MCP? Model Context Protocol (MCP) explained: why it exists, how it works conceptually, and how it solves AI-LLM integration challenges through standardized protocols.

I’m not sure if MCP is better than USB yet, but it has a 50/50 chance. 🪙

What is this Model Context Protocol anyway?

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#MCP #ModelContextProtocol #AI #LLM #APIs #JSONRPC #Protocols #SystemDesign #Integration #DevTools

Fundamentals of API Design and Contracts API design fundamentals for contracts, compatibility, and reliability, so integrations stay predictable as systems evolve.

Integration with your API shouldn’t require psychic powers.

Learn how explicit semantics reduce guesswork.

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#APIDesign #APIs #SoftwareEngineering #DistributedSystems #SystemDesign #APIContracts #PlatformEngineering #OpenAPI #RESTAPIs

Fundamentals of Naming Understand why naming matters in software: how clear names improve readability, reduce bugs, and make code easier to understand, maintain, and modify over time.

We’ve spent ~80 years in computer science, to name one class: ManagerManager.

An examination of the pitfalls of naming and a return to functional, descriptive basics.

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#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture #Maintainability #SoftwareDevelopment

Fundamentals of Software Marketing Understand why software marketing works: how positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy connect software products with customers and when each approach matters most.

You shipped the code, but forgot to ship the meaning.

Why messaging translates technical value into human terms.

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#Marketing #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

Fundamentals of Software Business Management Understand why software business management works: how planning, organizing, leading, and controlling create effective software organizations and when each function matters most.

Does your software org run like a group chat where everyone thinks they’re the admin?

Learn how clear roles and structure can make you an operator.

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#SoftwareEngineering #TechLeadership #ProductManagement #BusinessFundamentals #Software

Fundamentals of Software Maintainability Understand why software maintainability matters: how code quality, technical debt, refactoring, and design patterns create systems that are easier to modify, debug, and extend over time.

Every legacy system started as a “clean MVP.” Even the Death Star.

Learn how technical debt forms and why fundamentals prevent catastrophic rewrites.

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#Maintainability #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

Fundamentals of Software Debugging Software debugging fundamentals for developers: mental models, evidence-driven workflows, observability signals, and practical techniques for finding root causes fast.

Most debugging sessions end the same way Netflix shows do, unsatisfied.

Discover how closing the loop prevents repeat episodes.

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#Debugging #SoftwareDevelopment #EngineeringPrinciples #SystemThinking #Observability #ReliabilityEngineering

Fundamentals of Agile Software Development Agile software development fundamentals: iterative development, collaboration, and responding to change. Build software that delivers value continuously.

Agile isn’t Jira. Jira is where agile goes to die.

Learn agile fundamentals without tool worship.

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#Agile #SoftwareDevelopment #ProductDevelopment #SystemThinking #TechLeadership #ContinuousImprovement #SoftwareEngineering #TeamCollaboration

Fundamentals of CI/CD and Release Engineering CI/CD and release engineering fundamentals: automation, feedback loops, deployment strategies, and why continuous integration prevents integration hell.

If your release checklist has more steps than an IKEA manual.

Learn how automation removes human bottlenecks and mitigates deployment risk.

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#CICD #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

Fundamentals of Software Availability Software availability explained: uptime metrics, redundancy patterns, health checks, and graceful degradation for keeping systems accessible.

Your on-call rotation log knows exactly how available your system really is.

How availability design directly affects sleep and sanity.

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#Availability #Reliability #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering