I'm the CTO of a startup. Software engineering has changed so much that we've changed our hiring process.

Andrew Hsu, the cofounder and CTO of an AI startup, said the company is rethinking engineer hiring. The company has ditched ...
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Snowflake thinks AI coding agents are solving the wrong problem

AI coding agents are suddenly everywhere, the latest thing Silicon Valley cannot stop talking about. From venture-backed startups to splashy big tech keynotes, the promise sounds the same: just ...

‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think

Software engineers have debated productivity metrics for decades, starting with lines of code. But as the new generation of ...

Forget Python Or Java: What You’re Speaking Is Code

The most powerful programming language today isn’t written in code editors. It’s natural language. In this article, I’ll ...

The AI code wars are heating up

Writing code was a killer app for AI even before anyone was really talking about AI. In the spring of 2021, 18 months before ...

The Most Ignored Practice In AI Coding: Test-Driven Development

What Cherny is describing, in engineering terms, is the operating principle behind test-driven development (TDD). TDD has ...

43% of AI-generated code changes need debugging in production, survey finds

Survey data shows 43% of AI-generated code fails in production, forcing developers to spend more time debugging and deepening ...

Recently leaked Windows zero-days now exploited in attacks

Threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed Windows security vulnerabilities in attacks aimed at gaining SYSTEM or ...