How to Deal with Difficult People on Software Projects
Software is easy. People are hard.
SoftwareEngineering
You can code only 4 hours per day. Here’s why.
Most of us have felt it: after a few solid hours of coding, your brain starts shutting down.
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
DORA | State of AI-assisted Software Development 2025
DORA is a long running research program that seeks to understand the capabilities that drive software delivery and operations performance. DORA helps teams apply those capabilities, leading to better organizational performance.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3190508.3190546
Distributed service management
Comparison - LLMs for Creating Software Architecture Diagrams
LLMs create standard perfect-world architectures detached from reality.
TL;DR: we should only trust software architects in their output, not LLMs. 🙅♂️
The reality of AI-Assisted software engineering productivity
summary of the 2025 Stackoverflow Developer Survey on AI-Assisted Development.
Excalidraw — Collaborative whiteboarding made easy
Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
Research, Review, Rebuild
Using an LLM to change an existing system's UI from Angular to React
Engineering Leadership: Building Culture, Career Growth, and Ownership
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Thiago Ghisi about building engineering culture through leading by example, advancing careers by embracing "glue work" (non-technical but necessary tasks), taking full ownership of projects, and developing self-awareness to choose between technical and management career paths.
Levelling Yourself up as a Software Engineer While Climbing through the Ranks
As software engineers grow into senior, Staff+, or principal roles, they take on greater responsibility, complex projects, and influence beyond code, Suhail Patel explained in his talk about growing oneself as a software engineer at QCon London. Growth isn’t linear; it requires mastering communication, strategy, and soft influence. Writing, speaking, and 1:1s can help to expand impact.
Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development
a short post
AI | 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
Leading your engineers towards an AI-assisted future | Pete Hodgson
Recommendations for engineering leaders to drive AI adoption
Vibe Coding: The Shadow IT Problem No One Saw Coming
vibe coding leads to shadow IT
The hidden cost of AI: Trading long-term resilience for short-term efficiency
LLMs promise efficiency, but it comes at the expense of resilience. Perfect systems cannot adapt. Perfect information is a fallacy.
List: Series - Generating Code with LLMs: A Developers Guide | Curated by Mayuresh K | Medium
how to build your own coding assistant
How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation?
An experiment to test the limits of autonomous code generation by LLMs
The Map Is Not the Territory (And Your Content Strategy Is Doomed)
be willing to part with your gems and let go of (what once were) best practices. Feedback loops are the most underappreciated part
The Pareto-Equilibrium: Why the optimal big picture often consists of sub-optimal system parts | LinkedIn
Pareto equilibrium, systems thinking, and architecture trade-offs
Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World
Durable vs disposable code
The Death of Agile: Why Tech Giants Are Abandoning Scrum and What They Use Instead | by Sohail Saifi | Jul, 2025 | Medium
Rather than strict frameworks, these businesses concentrate on:
" Hiring exceptional people and putting your faith in them to solve the problem " Clearly defined goals rather than intricate procedures
- Quick shipping without any formalities
Objectives and key results (OKRs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and goals are far more effective tools for team alignment in organizations with empowered teams than implementing a strict methodology like Scrum.
Avoiding a Future AI Architecture Crisis; What the 2025 Numbers Mean for Enterprise AI Strategy - Architecture & Governance Magazine
The Architecture Risk Assessment
joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision-record: Architecture decision record (ADR) examples for software planning, IT leadership, and template documentation
collection of ADR sources
Leading developers - A book by Luca Pette
Leading developers is a common sense guide to engineering leadership.
Regulatory Radar
Mit dem Regulatory Radar bleiben Sie immer auf dem neusten Stand der weltweiten Regularien in der Medizintechnik- und Pharmabranche.
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Digital Health Software Precertification (Pre-Cert) Pilot Program | FDA
Through the Digital Health Software Precertification Pilot Program, the FDA explored innovative approaches to regulatory oversight of medical device software.
Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) | FDA
SaMD is defined as "software intended to be used for one or more medical purposes that perform these purposes without being part of a hardware medical device."
Content of Premarket Submissions for Device Software Functions | FDA
This guidance identifies the software information generally necessary for evaluating the safety and effectiveness of a device in a premarket submission.