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Shipping fast and staying clean: How to tame tech debt in a high-growth startup?
There’s a moment in every startup’s life when the code starts creaking.
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Karim Fanous
Battle of the LLMs Part 2: Can they code and judge themselves?
In the first experiment, I tested whether LLMs could act as code reviewers, asking them to define a rubric for high-quality code and then critique a…
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Battle of the LLMs: Evaluating LLMs as code reviewers
A year ago, GitHub Copilot was the best AI-powered assistant a developer could get.
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Predicting software developer productivity in the age of AI
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How to interview a VP of Engineering
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Why did Microsoft give GitHub Copilot away for free?
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Software 2.0 vs Software 1.0
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Earlyvangelists: Who are they & how to find them
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The Iceberg that sank the Snowflake?
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Scaling engineering teams: Building career ladders
One of the most common challenges engineering leaders face as their organization grows is creating a clear, fair, and scalable career ladder.
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Why did Microsoft give GitHub Copilot away for free?
AI-powered code completion tools like Github Copilot, Tabnine, Amazon Q, cursor and codeium have been all the rage over the past year or so.
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What does it mean to be "Enterprise Ready"
In the early startup days, the first customers are often friends, family, or close professional contacts willing to take a chance on an untested…
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Messiness can be a huge moat
If you are able to control and simplify it
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State of AI Agents: Not autonomous (yet)
Last week I attended the IA 2024 Summit which witnessed a lot of excitement around AI Agents, amongst other AI topics.
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AI: Feature or Product?
AI has undergone a meteoric rise, especially since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT and the rise of large language models (LLMs).
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The evolving R&D organizational structure
The evolution of the organizational structure within Research and Development (R&D) teams mirrors the growth trajectory of a company from a fledgling…
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A newsletter for heads of engineering at startups. I cover the joys and challenges of running software engineering organizations at fast-paced startups.
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