#software-engineering

#software-engineering

Why can't every engineer just onboard by the end of the week?

"How's that going to work when ten years in the future you have no one that has learned anything," he asked. "My view is you absolutely want to keep hiring kids out of college and teaching them the right ways to go build software and decompose problems and think about it, just as much as you ever have."

Vibe coding is best for low-stakes experimentation and not critical work, despite the excitement and funding around it.

Olo's digital ordering, payment, and guest engagement solutions empower restaurants by boosting personalization, enhancing guest experiences, and optimizing operational efficiency in a competitive market.

Entering a new phase of software engineering, individuals are becoming addicted to agents. More people will create applications, necessitating new tools for support.

Nearly 100% of engineers at Robinhood are using AI code editors, making it hard to distinguish between human-written and AI-generated code, according to CEO Vlad Tenev.

When I built ZVDB, I deliberately applied every Z80 optimization I knew. Why? Because these 'old' techniques are timeless - they just happen to make modern code blazingly fast.

"This is not a sudden development -- it's an issue that's been building up for years," said Ivan Gekht, CEO of Gehtsoft, a custom-design software development firm.

Dead code refers to functions in source code that can't be reached during execution, complicating maintenance. A new tool, 'deadcode,' helps identify such functions.

She emphasized the idea that moving from exploratory data analysis in Jupyter notebooks to production involves not just technical skills, but also leveraging software engineering principles.

"I had to get in the game," said Agarwal, who's originally from Singapore. "I was looking around at my peers... They're solving really hard technical problems, and continuing to produce research in a very cool package."

At the InfoQ Dev Summit, Michelle Brush highlighted how the increasing automation in software development is leading to more complex challenges for engineers.

The transition to The Composable Architecture was motivated by the need to reduce complexity from the previous MVVM-C structure, improving navigation and code maintainability.

Siddiq et al. (2022) noted that code smells were prevalent in suggestions from Copilot, identifying 18 distinct types highlighting potential quality issues.

Rod Johnson highlighted that Embabel treats planning as a distinct capability, leveraging specialized algorithms rather than relying solely on LLMs. The framework's GOAP implementation determines optimal action sequences by considering preconditions and effects.

Microsoft's recent layoffs in Washington, which affect over 300 employees primarily in software engineering, illustrate the company's strategy to adapt to a dynamic market.