Tag: developers
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After months of coding with LLMs, I’m going back to using my brain – “I’m leveraging them to learn Go, to upskill myself. And then I apply this new knowledge when I code.” And: “But I’m not asking it to write new things from scratch, to come up with ideas or to write a whole…
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Nine Emerging Developer Patterns for the AI Era –
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The good times in tech are over – ”If you were an engineer who loved working on your company’s open-source libraries, it’s probably sensible to confront the fact that the company never really cared about it that much.”
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Developers spend most of their time not coding – Developers spending something like 50% to 60% of their time on stuff that should be automated and built into the process.
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Context-switching is the main productivity killer for developers – #1 way to improve developer productivity, 30+ years running: stop interrupting them while they’re coding. // ”Research from UC Irvine shows that developers need an average of 23 minutes to rebuild their focus after an interruption fully.”
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– Why Developers Are Unresponsive to Traditional Marketing – They just want to try the actual tool without a lot of bullshit. At the very least, they want to see a realistic use of it: actually typing, no business outcomes babbling.
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Platform Engineering: Why You’re Doing It Wrong – Hopefully also how to do to real right.
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Internal Developer Platform: Insights from Conversations with Over 100 Experts – Looks comprehensive!
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How to support 1,000’s of developers for your internal developer platform
Let’s start with some good looking cheese: Still Life with Cheese and Fruits, Roelof Koets, 1625. Community is Mission Critical for Platform Engineering Establishing an internal community is one of the keys to enterprise platform engineering. A lean platform team can’t support all the support and consultative requests from thousands of developers. When you create…
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Developer Content That Ranks in 2024 – Educational content attracts the most attention (“how to”). Also content where you define things (“what is”). Converting that content into sales, or at least pipeline, is the secret magic.
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White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now – The Atlantic – “Gloria Mark of UC Irvine has found that workers require an average of 25 minutes to return to their original task after an interruption. By this measure, a 30-minute meeting is, for the typical worker, best thought of as a one-hour detour.” // For 25+…
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How CIOs can ease the generative AI transition for developers – “AI-powered coding tools are expected to become fairly ubiquitous within enterprises in the next four years, according to Gartner research. The analyst firm predicts around three-quarters of software engineers will add AI coding assistants to their workflows by 2028, a considerable jump from the…
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What junior/senior developers and CTOs need to know about internal developer platforms
This is from last Fall at the SHIFT conference, but it still holds up: Relative to your interests Why Are Pants So Big (Again)? – tl;dr: you can wear comfortable jeans again. // “There’s constancy, I thought, and then there’s becoming a relic of yourself” And: “If you zoom out far enough, all the paroxysms…
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It takes a village to make a king, not just developers
This is an example of a weird use of “developers are the new kingmakers”: There is a simple rule: developers rule. You run the global economy, right? Not politicians, not CEOs – developers are the ones running this global economy. What aspect of your life is not getting more digital? Everything, sports, entertainment, social experience…
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The only people who don’t like metrics are the people being measured, or, developer productivity metrics quicksand
No links today, but this: Measuring Developer Productivity Once you suggest tracking an individual software developer’s performance, you get into big trouble with the thought leaders. This is, you know, pretty much a correct a response. McKinsey decided to have a go recently, giving us all a chance to think about “developer productivity” again. In…
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What exactly is “developer experience”?
Press Pass I’m speaking at the SHIFT conference next week in Zadar, Croatia. Here’s some questions they asked me ahead of time for their ShiftMag outlet. I’m not sure why, but I didn’t send the third one in and saved it up for this here newsletter. (1) Where do you stand in the DevOps vs.…
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Developers are bad at estimating in at least three ways.
Midjourney: Olan Mills style photograph of software programmers standing around a conference table in 1980s sitcom style Software people are bad at estimating Here are three ways that software people (developers, mostly) are bad at estimating: Estimating the feasibility of writing code for new features, that is, the risk of failure – if the new…
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The mystery of how many developers there are in the world: is it 100 million, or more like 16 million?
Finding an estimate of how many developers there are in the world is difficult. Oh, there’s plenty of people making estimates, but those estimates vary so much that the estimates are suspicious. For example: Microsoft/GitHub recently said they now have 100 million developers using GitHub. “We estimate that, as of Q1 2023, there are 35.6…
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Platform engineers don’t have time for infrastructure
That’s from a 15 minute version of my platform talk. I focused just on the seven tips to get your platform group started and scale it. I’m recording this for a conference, but I think I’ll need to record it again – which means this version is a bonus video! 🤖 Fully dedicated to “juggling…
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