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I was at a panel on AI in SDLC at PyConf. Here’s the summary of my advice: Process Make AI your entire SDLC loop. Record client calls, feed them to a coding agent to directly build & deploy the solution. Record your prompts, run post-mortems, and distill them into SKILLS.md files for reuse. Prompting Ask AI to make output more reviewable. Don’t waste time reviewing unclear output. Prefer directional feedback (feeling, emotion, intent) over implementational. Also give AI freedom to do things its way. Learn from that - you’ll be surprised. Learning ...

What programmers do.

Microsoft’s IT department has used the Theory of Constraints in software development. Comments Suresh 17 May 2006 5:39 am: Interesting and informative

Why good programmers are lazy and dumb. Comments Prasenjeet 26 Aug 2005 3:01 pm: Like the chap who created some-language-or-the-other

Why is Microsoft not opening more source code? Apparently inappropriate code comments is one of the reasons according to this story. I wonder what kind of things developers put in comments that would be so bad for the rest of us to see? Comments sathish 10 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: checking if the contact name is coming properly.. Venkat 10 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: GMaP is cool! Better than mappy. Do we have something like this for India?

This one is funny. It’s legal to write software that pirates DVDs.

Programmers: learn from this. Laymen want documentation they understand. (Wish someone told me 5 years ago.)

Microsoft will now focus on security. Thank heavens.

Cringely teaches you how to roll your own DSL.

Joel writes on software. “Good software takes 10 years” is a good read.

Coimbatore: The next IT destination?

Microsoft dumps Java. Doesn’t worry me to much. I’ve never had much use for Java as a user. They’ve ‘adopted’ Perl, though. And I was always a Perl fan.