Posts Tagged: software engineer

AI-Generated Code and the Trust Factor

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I’ve been invited recently to a roundtable discussion with other engineering leaders in Austin (big thanks to Jordan Kelly for organizing this!) where we discussed how is AI affecting the engineering teams — from the structure, to the way they operate, to morale and so on. One emerging theme throughout these conversations was the level […]

Next iteration of software engineers

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As I shared previously, I don’t think AI is killing software engineering; it does however transform it. The rise of AI coding assistants—like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and others—has fundamentally changed how we build software. But more importantly, it’s changing who we are as engineers. We’re no longer just writing code. We’re shaping product—fast, and often […]

Coding — My Daily Dose of Dopamine

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I was asked recently by a friend of mine about what does my “standard” day of work consist of at Netflix. I had to explain to him that it’s hard to talk about a “standard” day as each day sees me looking at different pieces of our infrastructure and requires different challenges to be solved. […]

Of Engineers and Creating Things

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I had a chat recently with someone about engineers, and it is because of that chat I feel I need to write this, because the person I was talking to made some interesting points about engineers (mainly in Silicon Valley, due to their geographical position at the moment, but this I’m sure it’s often the […]

I Am a Poet

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This is the first speech I delivered for Toastmasters in London: “The Icebreaker“. As a reminder, the objectives of this project are: To begin speaking before an audience To discover speaking skills you already have and skills that need some attention With that in mind, here’s the speech I gave:

Note to Self on Being a Coder

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There’s no point in hiding the fact that quite for a while I’ve been dealing with a few rather messy projects — and in doing so, together with others working on these, I have found come across all sorts of shenanigans and oddities (caused quite often by myself and not just the others) which, with […]