Recent posts tagged developer-productivity

AI Productivity Myths: Lessons from the Real World #1 Why lines of code generated is almost meaningless as a measure of AI-assisted development. A few months ago, one of our teams celebrated a milestone in their quarterly review. AI adoption was u...

I used AI more last year than in any year of my career. And I got quietly worse at my job. Not slower at everything. Slower exactly where it counted: reading unfamiliar code, catching an answer that was almost right, holding a system in my h...

It was an afternoon when one of our reconciliation flows started throwing NullPointerExceptions in production. The fix, once we found it, was two lines. Finding those two lines took nearly six hours. Three engineers and endless log grepping. Tracing ...

You're looking at a list of things you'd love to do, and you're looking at AI coding tools as a way to boost your way down that list. You might not have the relationships mapped out, but you can see there is some route to value if you spend on LLMs t...

Introduction In earlier experiments, we explored a simple but powerful idea: An agent can generate code, run it, observe failures, and iteratively fix itself. That approach worked well for single-file applications across Python, Go, and TypeScrip...

“Effective” engineering isn’t about typing faster or knowing every framework. It’s about consistently delivering the right outcomes – reliably, collaboratively and with maintainable code – while improving the system and yourself over time. This arti...

Explore the must-have tools that every Laravel developer should consider for streamlined development and improved efficiency. As a Laravel developer, using the right tools can significantly enhance your productivity. Here are some essential tools wo...