I’m very excited to have another guest writer on my blog: OpenAI Deep Research! I didn’t write this post. I heavily relied on OpenAI’s Deep Research. I did review, clean up, and modified a little, but this is a guest post from ChatGPT ;) My prompt was: Write a comprehensive blog article, following my style,... Continue Reading →
You Can’t Prompt Your Way to being a Senior Engineer
This is the third and final post in my mini-series. In my first post, Where have all the Engineers gone?, I shared some hard questions about the current state of engineering and what it will look like a few years from now. In my second post, Rise of the Agent Director, I discuss the importance of experienced... Continue Reading →
Rise of the Agent Director
In my last post, Where have all the Engineers gone?, I wrestled with some tough questions we're facing today, in the age of AI-powered engineering. I can't just leave it there... Just as the rise of automation and CI/CD pipelines reshaped operations teams by forcing traditional sysadmins to upskill into DevOps engineers or risk obsolescence, we’re... Continue Reading →
Where have all the Engineers gone?
This is part one of a short mini series. Part 2 is Rise of the Agent Director. Part 3 is You Can’t Prompt Your Way to being a Senior Engineer. Where is my John Wayne?Where is my prairie song?Where is my happy ending?Where have all the cowboys gone?Where is my Marlboro Man?Where is his shiny gun?Where is... Continue Reading →
Context Switching and LLMs – A Cognitive Parallel
Photo by Mike van den Bos on Unsplash We've all been there: managing many moving pieces in our heads and then, BLAM, Slack dings, we’ve lost our perfect mental model faster than closing an unsaved file. Working with LLM agents has upped the ante in terms of what we have to keep in context in... Continue Reading →
