The Top AI Tool for Devs Isn’t GitHub Copilot, New Report Finds - “LeadDev’s respondents, too, mostly believe that AI has made them more productive, with only 5% saying there was no change and 10% saying it was making them less productive. But 26% also said that they weren’t sure or didn’t know, which, as Carey noted, points to the fact that many organizations also don’t have a way for tracking developer productivity."

Why AI Can’t Crack Your Database - “The real challenge lies in business context. Understanding what the data means, how different teams define metrics, and when edge cases matter.” // The app is what matters, and so you beee to integrate it into the business, the people.

Practical platform engineering, the industry analyst business dies again, personal utopia - three good videos

Three good videosPlatform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now. Most platform engineering talks are very frustrating for me. The same stuff over and over since about 2015. The platform engineering space is rife with people who’ve made the monumental mistake of thinking Kubernetes is a platform and then finding out they have so much more to build on-top of that thin layer. Meanwhile, based on that false assumption, the industry just jettisoned all the PaaS technology we had.