Do you know what is "vibe coding"?
Learn about the latest AI hype around "vibe coding" and Jevons paradox that might save software engineers from complete AI automation
A lot of AI hype in this digest. Will AI make us all obsolete or will Jevons pradox save us? Don’t worry I did not hear about Jevons paradox until today, so you are not alone. Prepare that coffee or tea ☕, sit back, and read on.
Vibe coding, some thoughts and predictions (11 min)
Last digest included a video introducing Manus - an AI agent going viral in China. That was a brief introduction into the latest AI agents. In this article
shares his perspective of the current AI landscape and makes predictions on a topic we are all interested in - how AI will transform software engineering.
Audience: Software Engineers / Engineering Managers
Value: Learn how AI will transform software engineering
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐🌟
How Engineering Teams are Using AI (13 min)
This is one of the three articles in this digest mentioning “vibe coding” - the term introduced by Andrej Karpathy this February. There is definitelly hype forming around this. Similar to the above article in this one
talks about AI impact on software engineering as well. And again both articles mention Jevons paradox - an economic concept I just learned that might save software engineers from an agentic AI doom.
Audience: Software Engineers
Value: Learn about AI in software engineering
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐
Why I decided to quit a Director's job (X min)
Two digests ago we had an article on the dark sides of solopreneurship, last digest contained one on the similar topic but from a more positive perspective. In this one
shares the “why” behind embarking on his solopreneurship journey.Audience: Software Engineers
Value: Read about solopreneurship
ToT Rating: ⭐
Developer Experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam (6 min read, 1h 20 min podcast)
In this podcast/article you get some insight into DevEx at Uber. Gautam Korlam talks about the benefits of Uber’s monorepo, his career growth, how he accidentally deleted Uber’s Java monorepo 🙂 and many other topics.
He even mentions vibe coding which is a hot topic in today’s digest.
Audience: Software Engineers / Engineering Managers
Value: Learn about Uber’s engineering culture
ToT Rating: ⭐
AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem (13 min)
Things are getting trickier and trickier for tech interviewers - we have our first fully deepfake candidates now 😆 🤯. Everything was AI-generated for this candidate, LinkedIn profile, resume, code that was written during the interviews and even their video. Read all about that in this deepdive.
Audience: Software Engineers / Engineering Managers
Value: Learn about deepfaked interviewers
ToT Rating: ⭐
Facebook’s Database Handling Billions of Messages (Apache Cassandra® Deep Dive) (13 min)
This is a deepdive into Facebook’s famous database system - Apache Cassandra. You will learn about the use case for which Cassandra was created, it’s data model and architecture that involves fun concepts like consistent hashing and the Gossip protocol 💬.
Audience: Software Engineers
Value: Learn about Apache Cassandra
ToT Rating: ⭐
The Key to Asking Great Questions (8 min)
In order to communicate better and extract more information from your communication you need to be willing to ask questions. Sometimes, we don’t ask important questions, either from fear of looking incompetent of from fear that we will annoy the other person. In this article
will share strategies on how to ask the questions the right way, so you do not appear incompetent and do not trigger people into being deffensive.Audience: All tech professionals
Value: Learn best way to frame your questions
ToT Rating: ⭐
Until next week!