The Forty-Year Programmer
You wish to be a ‘coder for life’. This article gives an insight. We love them.
The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence
Should AI be feared or adoption should be slowed down or it should be merged into activities that people do? This article attempts to provide an answer.
How to get startup ideas
Paul Graham’s essay “Startup Ideas” advises entrepreneurs to focus on solving real problems they personally experience, rather than seeking generic business ideas. He emphasizes that successful startups often emerge from founders addressing their own needs or frustrations, which leads to genuine solutions others will value. Graham suggests looking for ideas that seem obvious or undervalued and warns against following trends or copying existing businesses. He encourages founders to remain adaptable, seek feedback, and stay open to evolving their ideas based on real-world needs and discoveries.
For more details, you can read the full essay here
Building A Generative AI Platform
The article by Chip Huyen outlines the essential components and steps to build a generative AI platform, starting from a simple architecture and progressively adding complexity. Key elements include enhancing context with external data, implementing guardrails, using model routers and gateways, optimizing for latency and cost, and ensuring observability and orchestration to maintain and monitor the system effectively.
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The biggest-ever global outage: lessons for software engineers
The article discusses the largest global outage in history, analyzing its causes, impact, and lessons learned. It emphasizes the importance of resilience, redundancy, and effective communication in preventing and managing large-scale outages in the future.
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Why great leaders know that “control is an illusion”
This article explores the concept that effective leadership recognizes the limits of control and emphasizes trust, adaptability, and empowering others. It argues that leaders who understand control as an illusion are better equipped to navigate uncertainty and complexity.
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A simple programming productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow
The article from Engineer’s Codex shares four productivity tips for software engineers: leaving tasks slightly unfinished to regain flow easily, mastering keyboard shortcuts, organizing frequently used commands and links in a searchable document, and learning to say “no” to low-impact or redundant tasks. Each tip emphasizes efficiency, focus, and simplifying workflows to improve daily productivity.
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