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What is legacy software in the age of AI?

Software becomes legacy by succeeding long enough to accumulate the weight of every decision and shortcut made along the way. Users feel it as friction. Engineers feel their momentum slip. The business watches costs climb. AI changes two of those. The third may be getting worse.

Todd Kaufman

Legacy modernization

Three people emerge from darkness toward light and a neon green path

In the age of AI we’re in this together

River Lynn Bailey

River Lynn Bailey

Cognitive hazard study diagram showing a laptop, coffee mug, and documentation sinking into a tarpit

Organizational observability: The AI alignment problem starts upstream

Dave Mosher

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The shockingly simple math for why we need test automation

Gabriel Côté-Carrier

Gabriel Côté-Carrier

Double Takes

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Double Takes

TDDing with Claude is like having a pair that removes all the failing assertions every time you go to the bathroom.

Steve Jackson

State machines are the answer for those seeking determinism in the era of AI agents.

Dave Mosher

A Slack conversation left Doc reflecting on what bug bashes say about the systems we work in.

Doc Norton

Test-driven development is to programming what double-entry bookkeeping is to accounting.

Neal Lindsay

The fundamental character flaw of the software creator is not the misguided belief that they can solve any problem with software. Instead, it is the belief they can understand how their own software works before they create it.

Steve Jackson

We may need a SaaS appendix for Zawinski's law:

Any SaaS platform attempts to expand until it is a social network.

Matt Jones

Podcast: An aberrant generation of programmers

Landon Gray

Software tooling & tips

ai-ml

Seven C's of consulting change

Dive into our guide on navigating the key phases of consultancy to ensure success with every client engagement.

Jamie Phelps

Communication & teams

consulting

teams

agile

communication

Simplify software development with truth tables

Ever felt overwhelmed by complex requirements? Learn how truth tables can simplify your software development process, ensuring everyone is on the same page.

Eve Ragins

Communication & teams

testing

consulting

The Arab-American story: A silent minority

Join Ed Frank as he shares his journey as an Arab-American in tech leadership, addressing biases and advocating for inclusion in the industry.

Ed Frank

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

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A guide to building a custom ESLint rule for React Testing Library

Join Josh Justice and Dale Karp as they share their journey of building and contributing a new lint rule to eslint-plugin-testing-library. Get tips, suggestions, and confidence for your first major OSS contribution.

Josh Justice

open-source

react

testing

How to create custom linting rules in React Testing Library

Dive into the creation of custom linting rules with our step-by-step guide. Enhance your React projects with tailored best practices.

Dale Karp

open-source

react

javascript

testing

forecasting-the-future

Forecasting the future: Intro to Machine Learning for weather prediction in Native Ruby

Have you ever considered building a machine learning model in Ruby? In this RailsConf 2023 talk Landon Gray shows you how to build a model that predicts the weather, plus shares tools and libraries.

Landon Gray

ruby

rails

data-engineering

ai-ml

developer-experience

Zero downtime Rails upgrades

Zero downtime Rails upgrades

No one likes working on Rails upgrades. They can be thankless, time-consuming, and—worst of all—unpredictable. But later usually means never. Ali Ibrahim shares a strategy for zero downtime Rails upgrades.

Ali Ibrahim

rails

ruby

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