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  • Podcast
    Microsoft’s wandering eyes, data labeling duties for senior devs at Meta, and prod is the new source code
  • Article
    Whether tokenmaxxing or tokenminimizing, you’re measuring the wrong thing
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  • Article
    AMD is using agentic AI to rewrite ROCm and accelerate software delivery
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    Your AI ROI question doesn't have an answer yet. Here's how to build one.
  • Podcast
    Your SDLC needs a productivity context engine
  • Presentation
    Trust the Agent – Verify the Code
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    How to harness your dragon with Fable, tech leaders turn to model routing, and coping with AI rockstars
  • Research
    Mise en Place for Agentic Coding: Deliberate Preparation as Context Engineering Methodology
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    LinkedIn is building durable AI infrastructure for continuous adaptation
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    Observability makes agentic engineering reliable
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    Building on DORA: What the 2025 AI Capabilities Model tells us about measuring engineering efficiency
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    All software is an optimization of tokens and time (and speed is still the moat) | AMD’s Anush Elangovan
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    Microsoft breaks free from OpenAI, using your harness to add drag instead of velocity, and the Linux built-ins you're sleeping on
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    How to turn your 1000x engineer into a 10x everyone | LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal
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    The cost of intelligence will never be this cheap again, the failure of intensive specs, and how bots disguise inefficient workflows
  • Article
    The AI SaaSpocalypse is a mirage
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  • Article
    Google is rebuilding Android development for humans and agents
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    Observability is your profit center now | Honeycomb’s Christine Yen
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    What Google didn’t announce at I/O, defining “dark flow” and ignoring your first brain to build your second one
  • Media
    Build vs. buy: Why DIY engineering metrics break at scale
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    Android is the frontier for agents and other lessons from Google I/O | Matthew McCullough
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  • Article
    Harness engineering separates working data agents from AI hype
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    Agents get their own AOL, Andrew gets published, and vibe coding is actually good?
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    Inference engineering delivers production-grade AI at scale
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    We asked Claude to build LinearB (and here's what happened)
  • Presentation
    5 Lessons from the Classroom for Evaluating Agents
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  • Article
    How to vibe code your own engineering productivity dashboard
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    It’s Tuesday and your tech stack is obsolete (again). Now what? | Theory Venture’s Bryan Bischof
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    Intrinsic is making software-defined robotics production-ready
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    Goblins in prod, the messy middle of AI adoption, and everything is a harness now
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    Teach the primitives or watch your competitor define them | Baseten’s Philip Kiely
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    State-of-the-art coding agents no longer require industrial-scale resources
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    Tokemnaxxing scoreboards, the vegan LLM from before 1931, and 30% of the web is now AI-generated
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    Giving robots a brain | Intrinsic’s Brian Gerkey
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  • Article
    Guardian agents keep AI workforces aligned in production
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    The harness is the showdown, the humans are the tool calls, and have you seen my Claude Code buddy?
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    How I learned to solve the day two problem for my agents at Salesforce's TDX 2026
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    Secure cloud workspaces make AI coding agents enterprise-ready
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    The best model for your team? You haven’t invented it yet. | Ai2’s Tim Dettmers
  • Project
    Depths (Ludum Dare 57)

    A small-town switchboard operator's shift. Every call is tangled. You sort.

  • Podcast
    The self-authoring wiki, beating brain fry, and Obsidian as memory is a trap
  • Article
    A demo is just a promise
  • Podcast
    Reading model benchmarks like a pro, Mythos is looming, and Claude talk caveman, save big token
  • Article
    The best developers I've met this year aren't developers
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    Virtual pets in your terminal, ads in your pull request, & no more CSS in your browser?
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    AI turns software supply chain security into a continuous engineering discipline
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    How Meta built the agentic infrastructure that drives 50% of its code changes
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  • Podcast
    Retrofit or reimagine? Developer environments for humans and agents | Ona’s Matt Boyle
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  • Podcast
    The T-shaped leader, Disney can’t catch a break, and will you trust Auto mode?
  • Media
    How to Measure AI Impact: Proving ROI from Copilot, Cursor, and Claude
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    Sloppypasta culprits, unpacking MCP’s spotlight, and Anthropic wants your agents to work the graveyard shift
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    Many tokens make all bugs shallow & open source’s new maintainers | Chainguard's Dan Lorenc
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    Inference is the new 401k matching and what we’re learning from AI-related outages
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    How a 30-day roadmap pause turned 700 engineers into an AI delivery engine
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    Breaking the keyboard bottleneck: why voice is the future of AI development
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    Your engineers need an AI control plane, not more tools | Guild.ai’s James Everingham
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    The agent wasteland, federated workflows, and a computer for computers
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    Ralph loops make agentic coding reliable with ruthless context resets
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    How monday.com paused its roadmap for 30 days to hit AI escape velocity
  • Media
    Your AI Gets Dumber the Longer You Chat
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    Why AI Coding Feels Like Robbing Your Future Self
  • Media
    Cursor and Windsurf are Just 300 Lines of Code
  • Podcast
    Draining the COBOL moat, cybersecurity inequalities, and Claude’s retirement home
  • Podcast
    Your keyboard is the real bottleneck | Wispr’s Sahaj Garg
  • Media
    Why Your AI Starts Making Stuff Up: The Compaction Problem
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    Slack is transforming work by integrating AI agents into everyday conversations
  • Media
    Stop Yelling at Your AI (It's Timid)
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    Why Your AI Agent Will Murder Your Codebase If You Look Away
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    Outcome engineering, AI hit pieces, and the end of the backlog
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    Mise en place for agentic coding
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  • Media
    Why a Fast Food Worker Now Out-Earns a Basic Developer
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    Why the Inventor of the Ralph Technique Felt Sick
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    Dex Horthy on Ralph, RPI, and escaping the "Dumb Zone"
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    Breaking GitHub, AI vampires & the great Oz | Warp’s Zach Lloyd
  • Media
    The Fin Reboot: How Intercom Bet the Farm on AI Agents with Darragh Curran
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    Multi-agent orchestration in Slack | Saleforce's Kurtis Kemple
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    Vibe coding session within Slack with Kurtis Kemple
  • Article
    Why OpenAI Codex builds the agent first, not the product
  • Podcast
    Moltbook, Rent-a-Human, Super Agents & Connectivity Benchmark Report | ft. Gary Lerhaupt
  • Media
    Ralphing 25k repos at Block with Angie Jones
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    Nobody is shipping your agent’s code (yet) | Predictions from LinearB’s Ori Keren
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    Genuary 2026
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    Genuary is an annual, month-long creative coding challenge where artists create generative art daily based on specific prompts. It's a celebration of ...

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    Building future AI news experiences with The Atlantic and Infactory
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    I placed 1st in the Infactory x The Atlantic AI hackathon (Building future AI news experiences with The Atlantic and Infactory) by creating a virtual ...

  • Podcast
    OpenClaw, a constitution for AI, breaking dark flow, and open source as a moat?
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    Scaffolding is coping not scaling, and other lessons from Codex | OpenAI’s Thibault Sottiaux
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  • Podcast
    The Emerging Role of the GTM Engineer & Your On-Ramp to GenAI
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    How Spotify turned internal chaos into an industry standard
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    Angie Jones on Ralphing 25k repos at Block, GPT-5.2 Codex, and CES weirdness
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    Mastering Ralph loops transforms software engineering with LLM automation
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    Backstage’s journey from spreadsheets to global IDP standard | Spotify’s Tyson Singer
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  • Podcast
    Ralph Wiggum goes to Gas Town and the death of the IC
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    Inventing the Ralph Wiggum Loop | Creator Geoffrey Huntley
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  • Podcast
    How Capital One supports 14,000 technologists with one pipeline | Ameesh Paleja
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    Why AI elevates engineering leadership instead of replacing it
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    The "100 Interns" Capacity Problem
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    Don't Start with the Model
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    AdventJS 2025
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    A complete set of solutions for all 25 challenges in AdventJS 2025. Each challenge solved in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python with comprehensive tes...

  • Media
    Optimism About AI Creating Jobs
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    The one where we vibe code holiday cards | Season 5 Finale
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    Live Coding Session: Digging Into Contributors' Garden
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  • Media
    Incrementalism How to Build a Great Company
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    Why engineering leadership matters more than ever | Manoj Mohan
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    Hiring Philosophy Math Fundamentals Prompt Engineering
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    Building Legacy Through Open Source
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    Experimenting with AI Tools
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    The end of pre-compute: why the future of AI is on-demand
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    Advent of Code 2025
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    Solutions for all 12 days of Advent of Code 2025. Each day includes TypeScript solutions with comprehensive test suites, edge case analysis, and detai...

  • Podcast
    The hidden costs of pre-computing data | Chalk's Elliot Marx
  • Article
    Speed as a moat: building the open innovation engine at AMD
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    I built an agent that survived 97,000+ synthetic documents
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  • Podcast
    Speed is the moat | AMD’s Anush Elangovan
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  • Article
    Is the future of AI development spec-driven?
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    The new engineering leader: navigating AI as a core business metric
  • Media
    AI Insights Dashboard Demo
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    LinearB MCP Server Prompt Demo
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    How spec-driven development is changing the rules | AWS’ Amit Patel
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  • Media
    The Flight Simulator for Junior Developers
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    Engineering leaders have to think like a CFO
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    AI as a Core Operating Metric
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    What we learned running the industry’s first AI code review benchmark
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  • Media
    Kiro's Bi-Weekly Show | Spec vs Vibes
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  • Article
    What is the best AI code review tool?
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    RIP Rocket Emoji
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    The CTO must now think like the CFO to survive | Sancus Ventures’ Lake Dai
  • Article
    Vector databases: the essential foundation for reliable AI applications
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    Enterprise vibe coding: how Salesforce balances speed with governance
  • Media
    Building Mental Models Applying Physics to Engineering
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    Testing as a Force Multiplier for Database Correctness
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    The Evolution of Vector Databases in AI Applications
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    The timelessness of vector databases | Pinecone’s Ram Sriharsha
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    The Foundational Component of Search in AI
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    Is Agentforce the future of enterprise vibe coding? | Salesforce’s Dan Fernandez
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  • Media
    No Keyboards Allowed (build an app in 4 hours) · Web Dev Challenge S2.E10
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  • Article
    How Cloudflare adopted MCP and made it enterprise-ready
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    A quiz game for humans, but homework for agents
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  • Article
    The creator of the iPhone keyboard on building transcendent AI
  • Media
    The Biggest Lesson from Autocorrect is Remediation
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    Specialized intelligence in AI applications: bridging research with real-world impact
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    My Job is to Make Tech Literacy Not Matter
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    Building the internet’s next infrastructure layer | Cloudflare's Brendan Irvine-Broque
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  • Media
    EP242 Ken Kocienda AI's Generative and Extractive Possibilities
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    The Stressful but Insightful Steve Jobs Demo
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    Making tech literacy irrelevant | Infactory’s Ken Kocienda
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  • Article
    Dialing up determinism: building production-grade AI
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    Closing the AI gap: Surpassing executive expectations for AI productivity
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    Coding with Zach: Warp x Andrew Zigler
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  • Podcast
    Why enterprise AI lives or dies on applied research | Contextual AI’s Elizabeth Lingg
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    Your AI demo is a lie (and how to make it real) | Arcade’s Alex Salazar
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    The terminal of tomorrow: how AI is transforming the developer experience
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    Treating MCP servers like bombs
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  • Podcast
    The future of the terminal is not a terminal | Warp’s Zach Lloyd
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  • Article
    Applied machine learning at Shopify: building tools that create real value
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    Forget vibe coding. Say hello to vibe entrepreneurship. | Shopify’s Andrew McNamara
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  • Article
    AI-accelerated development: how GitHub is shaping the future of software engineering
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    You can't have AI without DevOps | GitHub’s Martin Woodward
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  • Article
    The Moneyball approach to engineering leadership
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    The art of letting go as a manager | Transcend’s Minh Nguyen
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    The convergence of GraphQL and AI: building the future of agent experience
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    AI Measurement Framework: AI Performance, Adoption & ROI Guide
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    AI agents are knocking. Is your API ready to answer? | GraphQL’s Matt DeBergalis
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    Sycophancy in AI: The dangers of people-pleasing artificial intelligence
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    Untitled Goose Retrospective
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  • Media
    The AI upgrade to your SDLC: A data workshop on AI code reviews
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    Vibe Code with Us
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  • Podcast
    The people-pleaser in the machine | Wayfound’s Dr. Tatyana Mamut
  • Article
    AI-driven software development: Navigating the shift from speed to velocity
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    Is your AI strategy built for speed or stability? | Qodo’s Itamar Friedman
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    Engineering mental models for happier, more productive teams
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    You don't need more code. You need more business impact. | Thoughtworks' Chris Westerhold
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    Data quality is the foundation for AI-driven software development
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    Your next user isn’t human: AI agents are changing software design
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    How Google DeepMind is transforming engineering with AI
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    You’re not the user anymore | Layer’s Andrew Hamilton
  • Media
    Goose Off | Community Edition
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    How Amazon's AI playbook is democratizing video ads
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    Inside Amazon's AI video generator | Kabir Bedi
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    Google DeepMind's AI playbook for engineering at hyperspeed | Philipp Schmid
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  • Article
    Faster coding isn't enough
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    Is GitHub Copilot worth it? ROI & productivity data
  • Media
    Beyond Copilot: What’s Next for AI in Software Development
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    The Odyssey of Innovation: Classics, Code, and Cognitive Load | Two Sigma's Matt Greenwood
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    Redefining Ambition After Burnout | Zapier’s Kelly Vaughn
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    Foresight Over Firefighting: Being Proactive in a Reactive World | Rootly's JJ Tang
  • Article
    The Rise of Product Engineers in the AI-Driven Era
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    The End of Specialization? How AI Shapes Modern Dev Teams | Vercel’s Lee Robinson
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  • Article
    Cyclomatic Complexity explained: How it measures (and misleads) code quality
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    AI Gets Eyes and Ears | LiveKit’s Russ d’Sa
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    What is AI Code Review, How It Works, and How to Get Started
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    The Shift to Agent-Driven API Consumption | Speakeasy’s Sagar Batchu
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    How Marketing Ruined Shift Left | Semgrep’s Tanya Janca
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    How to Build AI Workflows You Can Trust | Infactory’s Brooke Hartley Moy
  • Project
    Depths (Ludum Dare 57)

    A game about navigating deep folder structures under time pressure. Players take on the role of an office worker who must find a specific file in a ch...

  • Podcast
    Amazon Q and The Future of Autonomous Development | AWS' Adnan Ijaz
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    How to Automatically Scale PR Review Policies to Reduce Risk
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    How to Align Code and Project Management with Automations
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    How to Use Automatic PR Labels to Improve Review Context
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    How to Use PR Notifications To Optimize Code Review Efficiency
  • Podcast
    Ditch the Ticket Factory Mentality | Cosmic Teacups’ Thanos Diacakis
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    Automatically Manage Code Reviews to Increase Productivity
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    Will AI Finally Make TDD Practical? | Diffblue’s Animesh Mishra
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    Can You Buy Your Way to DevSecOps Success? | Arcjet’s David Mytton
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    How to be your AI's boss (based on AWS, Google, IBM, and other giants)
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    Simplifying the AI Stack | IBM's Dr. Maryam Ashoori
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  • Podcast
    Can Your AI Strategy Be Future-Proof? | Galileo’s Vikram Chatterji
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    Hunting for a Flywheel | Refactoring’s Luca Rossi
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    The Best Software Engineering Podcasts (2025 Edition)
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    The Need for Speed | 2025 Engineering Benchmarks
  • Media
    Would You Rather Sacrifice Gen AI or Spell Check
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    Season 4 Finale: A Fond Farewell, What’s Next, & Would You Rather?
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    Developer Productivity, Beyond the Metrics
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    The Problem with Developer Productivity
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    End of Year Strategy: Measure, Define, Deploy
  • Article
    Why Google and Microsoft Think Your Team’s Best Work Might Happen After Dinner
  • Podcast
    Developer Productivity Will Decline in 2025 | Predictions from LinearB’s Ori Keren
  • Presentation
    Ready Player 2: designing and securing multi-user AI environments
  • Media
    Thinking vs Thunking with developer advocate Andrew Zigler #DevOpsDays #Developers #GenAI
  • Article
    Hacktoberfest 2024: Contribute, connect & collect digital rewards!
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    "GitHub is a social media network" with developer advocate Andrew Zigler #DevOpsDays #DevRel
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    Enhancing mission-critical enterprise collaboration with multi-LLM support for Mattermost Copilot
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    What is Chat Ops? With developer advocate Andrew Zigler #DevOpsDays #Developers #ChatOps #AI
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    "The year of automation" with developer advocate Andrew Zigler #DevOpsDays #Developers #Automate
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    Join forces with Mattermost on cybersecurity
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    Navigating the Security Complexities of Multi-User AI Environments
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    Chat ops, automation, thinking vs "thunking," and more with developer advocate Andrew Zigler
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    Securing the Future: Navigating the Complexities of Multi-User AI Environments
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    ChatOps + AI = The Future of Work
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    How to be a No-Code AI Power User
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    Demo: AI-Accelerated Workflows with Mattermost, Atlassian Jira, Parabol & Microsoft Azure AI
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    ChatOps + AI = helping humans do their job better
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    Mattermost AI Copilot: Accelerating the conversation with LLMs
  • Podcast
    Open Communities With Andrew Zigler
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    Panel Discussion on Agile / DevOps
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    5 open source projects to contribute to in 2024
  • Media
    Mattermost Copilot Demo – AI-Enhanced Collaboration
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    Mattermost Copilot Multi-LLM Setup & Usage
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    The Collaboration Landscape of Tomorrow: How AI is Transforming Mission-Critical Work
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    Bringing open source tech enthusiasts together with pizza
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    Hacktoberfest 2023: Incredible community contributions, digital rewards & a healthier planet
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    Building AI bots on your private data with an open source stack
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    Hacktoberfest 2023: Celebrate open source, make an impact on the planet
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    Start using GPT-4 and local models with the open source OpenOps framework
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    OpenOps is Available! Start Experimenting with Open Source AI
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    devopsdays Amsterdam 2023 interview with Andrew Zigler, Developer Advocate at Mattermost
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    Anatomy of a Mattermonster: How I Created an Open Source Developer Demo
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    Build your own local AI with mattermost-ai-framework and GPT4All
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    The Feature Feature: Remind Me Later
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    Mattermost Wants to Buy Pizza for Your Meetup Group
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    Community Spotlight: Mattermost ChatGPT bot by Sebastian Müller
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    Add ChatGPT to Mattermost in 2 minutes
  • Presentation
    How to Build a Custom Collaboration Stack with Open Source Software
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    Avoiding Catastrophic Outages
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    Mattermost Solutions for GitLab: Deep integration to ship software faster
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    Mattermost Solutions for GitLab
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    The quickest way to integrate Mattermost into your GitLab release pipeline
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    Make your next Mattermost slash command with Pipedream
  • Presentation
    Open Source All The Things
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    How to start a paid community writing program
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    Add TypeScript to React in Less Than 5 Minutes
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    How to be a Jira and Mattermost power user
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    How to create your ChatOps bot
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    Integrating your GitLab CI/CD pipelines into Mattermost
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    Building a custom Grafana dashboard for Kubernetes observability
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    Open Source Your Software Development Lifecycle
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    How to Make Your Incident Response Plan with Mattermost
  • Project
    Club Work Out No Jogging

    This Sims 4 mod fixed unintended behavior wherein Sims would go jogging while attending fitness-oriented club hangouts. This caused them to scatter al...

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    More Club Members

    This Sims 4 mod expanded the limit on club members in the game. By default, club members were arbitrarily capped at 8, but this mod lifted that cap to...

  • Article
    Review: Visme puts your visuals ahead of the curve

    I've been updating some of the images on my website, and conforming to a new image size for all of my social media shares. This turned out to be a pre...

  • Article
    JavaScript and Java Most in Demand Software Languages

    Programming languages JavaScript and Java are the most sought-after skills for IT professionals, according to a recent report from online academy Plur...

  • Article
    Untitled Goose Game Review: Avian Agent of Chaos

    People online are losing their minds over a casual simulation game where you take control of a mischievous goose. In its first two weeks, Untitled Goo...

  • Article
    Relaxing with CouchDB

    I'll admit it: databases scare me. I've always avoided databases in my projects because the idea of sorting and scheming all of my necessary data is a...

  • Article
    Using Phaser 3 with Nuxt

    If you're not familiar with Phaser, it's an open source framework for creating browser games in Canvas and WebGL. It comes with a lot of functionality...

  • Article
    Adding Auth0 to a Nuxt app

    My latest web project required adding security and user authentication to a Nuxt app. The app is served as a static generated (pre-rendered) site on N...

  • Article
    Publishing my first-ever npm packages

    I'm continuing to work on a few different Nuxt projects after creating this website, but I quickly hit a point where I was tempted to copy-paste code ...

  • Article
    Enabling Google to crawl my Nuxt app for superior SEO

    2021 update: in the time since this blog post was first published in 2019, I've rewritten my blog with Gatsby! That said, I'm keeping this post availa...

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    Finding my style with Material Design

    2021 update: in the time since this blog post was first published in 2019, I've rewritten my blog with Gatsby! That said, I'm keeping this post availa...

  • Article
    Converting this website and blog into a Nuxt app

    2021 update: in the time since this blog post was first published in 2019, I've rewritten my blog with Gatsby! That said, I'm keeping this post availa...

  • Article
    Web Components: spoils of the browser wars

    When discussed, “browser wars” typically has the connotation of our browsers fighting to get an edge on its competitors by developing or supporting ne...

  • Article
    Initial release of Pinwheel

    After about six months of work, my Pinwheel MUD engine (a variant of Ranvier) is finally in a usable, distributable state with the groundwork needed t...

  • Article
    My 2018 in review: Udacity and beyond!

    We’re almost another revolution around the sun and a lot has changed for me this year. I won a Google scholarship, got a promotion, completed a Udacit...

  • Article
    Carthaginian Empire in Spain: the Barcid Chessboard

    This article will analyze the tragic Barca family and the accomplishments, flaws, defeats, and aspirations of this powerful Carthaginian clan. After C...

  • Article
    What small towns and niche internet communities have in common

    In the last month, I’ve made continued progress on Pinwheel, my MUD game engine. In fact, there are only a few remaining elements of the core source c...

  • Article
    MUD Cookbook: design meets implementation

    Lately, I’ve had a laser focus that’s consumed me in my latest project, Pinwheel: a fork of Ranvier, a MUD engine in JavaScript. This fork started as ...

  • Article
    Like minds that like MUDs

    In a recent post, I made the case for MUDs in modern times which explored the niche that MUDs occupy on the internet. As a longtime player of MUDs, so...

  • Article
    I finished my Udacity Mobile Web Specialist Nanodegree

    I’ve just finished my Mobile Web Specialist course after completing my final project. I covered a lot of ground between the first project and the thir...

  • Article
    The case for MUDs in modern times

    In the age of smart devices and instant entertainment, can a medium as old as MUDs survive? Driven entirely by text, these Multi-User Dimensions ― or ...

  • Article
    Exciting promotion and Nanodegree progress

    Great news! I recently received a promotion at my job. I am now the Director of Business Development at a leading educational services company. We pri...

  • Article
    Grow with Google: Nanodegree Winner

    As described in Part 3, I was waiting to hear if I would be continuing my journey in the Grow with Google Challenge Scholarship for 2018. In the last ...

  • Article
    Sculpting Generative Text with Tracery

    As humans, we take our ownership of words very seriously. We see words as a way for a human to express their thoughts and feelings, and while all word...

  • Article
    TIC-80 in JavaScript

    I set out to participate in this quarter’s #FC_JAM a few weeks ago. I scoped out the various fantasy consoles available, trying to find something ligh...

  • Article
    Grow with Google: ES6

    Picking up where I left off in Part 2, I’m continuing my journey in the Grow with Google Challenge Scholarship for 2018. Last time I learned all about...

  • Article
    Grow with Google: IndexedDB

    Picking up where I left off in Part 1, I’m continuing my journey in the Grow with Google Challenge Scholarship for 2018. Last time I learned how to us...

  • Article
    Grow with Google: Service Workers

    Good news! I’ve recently been accepted to the Grow with Google Challenge Scholarship for 2018!

  • Article
    Review: Eloquent JavaScript

    I’m always looking to expand my knowledge of programming, especially JavaScript. In recent years, JavaScript has become my favorite and most productiv...

  • Article
    Building a Hexo theme: postmortem

    2021 update: in the time since this blog post was first published in 2017, I've rewritten my blog twice! Once in Vuex and then again in Gatsby. That s...

  • Article
    How late capitalism stole Animal Crossing from us

    Animal Crossing has always been an important part of my life. It was magical and transportive at a time when things were dull and isolating. Like many...

  • Article
    The man behind the markup: a self introduction

    Hi reader, and welcome to my blog! My name is Andrew Zigler and I incubate strange technology that most would push away. Under the cloak of moonlight,...

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