Why agentic coding tools demand a new identity for software engineers After more than two decades of professional software engineering, I have arrived at a set of conclusions that I find very uncomfortable. The era of mostly manual coding has ended. IDEs, in their current form, are no longer necessary. Traditional software development languages are […]
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Indeed SRE: An Inside Look
Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash Indeed adds over 30 million jobs online every month, which helps connect 250 million job seekers to prospective employers. How do we keep our services available, fast, and scalable? That’s the ongoing challenge for our site reliability engineering (SRE) team. What is SRE? The idea behind SRE is simple: […]
Obligation and Opportunity
A good friend of mine who’s been in engineering leadership at a handful of early-stage companies recently had something interesting to say about core values: I’m never putting ‘Accountability’ as a core value again. I’ve tried it three different ways at three very different companies and it always ends up the same. ‘Accountability’ just ends […]