The Programmer's Paradox

If I decided to build a house all on my own, I am pretty sure I would face lots of unexpected problems. I am comfortable building something ...

Recently, I was reading some AI-generated code. At the high level, it looked like what I would expect for the work that it was trying to do,...

A single point of data -- one ‘variable’ -- isn’t really valuable. If you have the same variable vibrating over time, then it might give you...

I’ve often felt that software development projects were representative fishbowls for the rest of reality. They have the same toxic mix that ...

The biggest difference between now and when I started programming 35 years ago is patience. Many of the people who commission software devel...