Romén Rodríguez-Gil

Great discussion yesterday with @fran_reyes during our talk in @agileCanarias: “Code Reviews: The Good, The Bad, and The AIgly” Recording available: youtu.be/UHa7JZQZbSM (in Spanish)

Couldn’t agree more, @abreslav! The Engineering aspect of building software has always been the key element of it. …And “evergreen” skills matter now even more! Suddenly, my old article on the topic feels more current than ever before: romenrg.com/blog/2018/12/2… #CodemotionMadrid @CodemoMadrid @CodemotionWorld

Mistakes happen. As a team, the important thing is to recognize it’s never an individuals’s fault — it’s the process, the culture, or the infra. In this case, there was a manual deploy step that should have been better automated. Our team has made a few improvements to the automation for next time, a couple more on the way.

Engineering job openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over 3 years There are over 67,000 (!!!) eng openings at tech companies globally right now, with 26,000 just in the U.S. We don’t know if there would have been more open roles if not for AI or if AI is actually leading to more open roles, but since the start of this year, the increase in open eng roles is accelerating even more.

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant. - No VC funding. - No viral launch. - No TED talk. - Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve. He built a language that fit in kilobytes. 50 years later, it runs everything. Linux kernel. Windows. macOS. Every iPhone. Every Android. NASA’s deep space probes. The International Space Station. > Python borrowed from it. > Java borrowed from it. > JavaScript borrowed from it. If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow. He died in 2011. The same week as Steve Jobs. Jobs got the front pages. Ritchie got silence. This Legend deserves to be celebrated.

A survey of 900+ engineers reveals the current state of software engineering with AI: - 95% use AI tools weekly - 56% do 70%+ of their work with AI - Most juggle 2 to 4 tools at once - Staff+ engineers are the heaviest agent users at 63.5% - Small companies tend toward Claude Code while larger enterprises default to GitHub Copilot - Agent users are 2x as excited about AI than non-users All this from an excellent article and survey on AI tooling by @GergelyOrosz: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-tooling-2…

Successful people start with two core beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

@CR1337 @acruiz @grok EDYT?

When Meta trains it models on 80+ TB of pirated books from LibGen and other platforms, it's called 'fair use', without them having to pay penalties and / or receive some form of legal punishment, as proceedings are ongoing. When Aaron Swartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR in 2010 he was facing a $1M fine and 35 years in prison, before taking his life in 2013.

Somehow it was learning how many people are fulltime employed to maintain the Golden Gate Bridge that flipped something inside of me in my understanding of the entropic force civilization has to constantly fight against. Before that moment I thought — I had not applied real conscious thought — you simply build a building or anything really and then you just … have it. After that I understood everything is constantly at the brink of being lost.

RIP Stack Overflow.

"I also get some programmers are eager to tune it out. The hype drones on, the fantastical claims are still far off, and there's uncertainty where this leaves the profession. But that's not reason to miss out on this incredible moment in human history!" world.hey.com/dhh/promoting-…

Tailwind lays of 75% of their team. the reason is so ironic: > their css framework became extremely popular w AI coding agents, 75m downloads/mo > that meant nobody would visit their docs where they promoted paid offerings > resulting in 40% drop in traffic & 80% revenue loss