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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Encourage communal ownership of systems.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

TechCrunch

This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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Finding a New Software Developer Job

Henrik Warne

For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. In my case, we were 17 people let go that day, including 8 developers. Next, I went through my list of companies I would like to work for, and looked to see if they had any open developer roles. Here is what I learnt from the process.

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Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think

OverOps

Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code. A new report from the Consortium for IT Software Quality ( 1 ) covers the cost of poor software quality, shedding light on those topics. ?? NEW POST ??

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How to set compensation using commonsense principles

Erik Bernhardsson

Good/bad compensation systems. I'll start by stating what I think are goals and anti-goals: A good system doesn't waste money hiring new people when you can pay to keep existing people. A bad system keeps people below the salary that you would give them to keep them. Phew, that was a lot!

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Feedback Ladders: How We Encode Code Reviews at Netlify

Netlify

The code review is a critical part of life as a professional developer: in most engineering organizations, no code gets checked in without at least a second look from another engineer. To solve this, Netlify’s UX team developed shared terminology for code reviews that we call the Feedback Ladder! The Problem.

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The reason India does not have enough awesome developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

A never-ending debate is that about the quality of Indian software developers. It is said that most developers around the world begin coding at a ridiculously young age. Hence, we have always heard time and again that Indian software developers are ok-to-mediocre coders, are not technically competent, and most times, clueless.