Why software development slows to a crawl

An engineer refreshes a pull request page for the fourth time. New comments appear. More reviewers get tagged. The change has been ready for days, yet the approval waits. The scenario is familiar across the industry: code that takes 15 minutes to write but 15 days to...

The rebellion against robot drivel

The robots may be taking over, but no one seems to like how they talk. In theory, the robots (by which I mean generative AI) talk just like us, given that their large language models (LLMs) have been trained on billions upon billions of statements you and I have made...