Links tagged “engineering”
19 links, newest first.
queue.acm.org
we ask for senior judgment while deleting the work that produces seniors.
techcrunch.com
Ford brings back 350 veteran engineers, its CEO saying the company mistakenly assumed introducing AI would by itself produce a high-quality product.
queue.acm.org
Eight myths on software engineering and GenAI: ACM Queue takes apart eight comfortable assumptions. Practitioner-grade, free to read.
tomdalling.com
Leprechauns, root causes, and other fairy tales
johnscolaro.xyz
Log by time, not by count: a short piece about better logs.
thenewstack.io
What’s Happening With Entry-Level Development Jobs?: how generative AI coding assistants are shrinking entry-level developer job opportunities.
theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com
Assumptions: software, despite being a fixed set of instructions at its core, evolves due to human assumptions about functionality that often change over time
metr.org
A randomised trial in which experienced maintainers took 19% longer on their own repositories when using the tools — and believed they had been faster.
secondthoughts.ai
On the METR trial: experienced developers were 19% slower with the tools, and believed they had been 20% faster.
youtube.com
Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: reality check (Gergely Orosz, 25min video)
newyorker.com
A profile of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the two Google engineers who code side by side at one keyboard, and the infrastructure that came out of it.
engineeringblog.yelp.com
Yelp's checklists for posting and reviewing code changes — pick the right reviewers, keep diffs small, self-review first, and answer within a day.
firstround.com
Marco Rogers on hiring engineers: which recruiting conventions to drop, and four interviewing practices that scale.
r.32k.io
Thirteen one-line engineering principles — don't be clever, code is a liability, make it correct before you make it fast.
blogs.msdn.microsoft.com
Argues that source code is a cost to be minimised rather than an asset to accumulate, since every line carries ongoing maintenance debt.
medium.com
Palantir's guide to code review: why and when to review, how to prepare a change, and what to look for in purpose, implementation, legibility, maintainability and security.
multithreaded.stitchfix.com
Argues that data scientists should own their own ETL and production code end to end, with platform engineers building the abstractions that make that autonomy possible.
5pi.de
Argues that a company should keep its core and customer-facing software in-house, and that the teams building services should also operate them on self-service infrastructure.
thoughtworks.com
Techniques section of ThoughtWorks' Technology Radar, an opinionated ranking of software delivery and architecture practices from adopt to caution.
