Code with Jason

This week, Jimmy Miller joins me for a discussion that touches on layoffs, the pitfalls of vulnerability reporting, our paths to programming, YJIT and performance, why we need as many programming languages as possible, writing clever code, collective ownership of code, duplication, and the value of liberalizing your education.

• Jimmy Miller on Twitter
• Jimmy Miller on Twitch
• Future of Coding
• Code Complete by Steve McConnell

This week, Vladimir Dementyev returns for a discussion of test suite performance. We talk profiling your test suite, looking for commonalities between tests, using TestProf to identify the slowest parts of your tests, and dividing your tests by type.  We also get into how ChatGPT can be used by developers, specialized versions of ChatGPT for development use, how I've used ChatGPT to assist with my debugging process, and the (extremely low) risk of exposing your code to hackers by using ChatGPT.

• Vladimir Dementyev on Twitter
• Vladimir Dementyev's home page
• Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications by Vladimir Dementyev
• Evil Martians
• TestProf

This week Moiz Ali and I talk ChatGPT and its likely impact on the programming profession.  We look at how ChatGPT has already impacted our workflows, potential use cases, using ChatGPT to explain programming concepts to you, software engineers becoming prompt engineers, why AI is unlikely to completely replace human interaction with code, and why programming is like farming.

• Moiz Ali on Twitter
• Moiz Ali on LinkedIn
• Moiz Ali on GitHub
• mock graphql_ai

On today's episode, Ufuk Kayserilioglu returns for a discussion of what he's been up to with the Ruby infrastructure team at Shopify, the challenges of parsing Ruby, how AI tools like ChatGPT will change programming, the likelihood of AI replacing programmers, and how AI is democratizing programming. 

• Ufuk.dev
• Ufuk Kayserilioglu on Twitter
• Ufuk Kayserilioglu on GitHub

Lee McAlilly returns for a discussion of his experiences using ChatGPT, strategies for using ChatGPT in your work, how getting correct answers isn't the only value to be derived from ChatGPT, what the future of programming with AI tools looks like, the potential downsides of AI technology, and how AI will or will not affect employment. 

• Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl
• Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
• Original Fuzz Guitar Straps
• Lee McAlilly on Twitter

On today's episode I'm joined by Dan Manges, founder of RTX, to discuss strategies for diagnosing and fixing flaky tests.

• What causes flaky tests
• How I fix flaky tests
• Dan Manges on Twitter
• RWX
• RWX Captain

In today's episode I'm joined by J. B. Rainsberger for an assessment of what value can be derived from using ChatGPT as a programming tool. We also discuss why you should write your tests backwards, using ChatGPT to make tests pass, and J. B.'s philosophy and approach as a consultant.  Finally, we get into the benefits of joining J. B.'s JBrains Experience mentoring group.

• Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck
• Extreme Programming Installed by Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, and Chet Hendrickson
• Planning Extreme Programming by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
• Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
• Test Driven Development at Wiki.C2.com
• JBrains.ca - J.B. Rainsberger's Site
• The JBrains Experience
• The Code Whisperer
• Blog.JBrains.ca
• The World's Best Intro to TDD, Level 1
• J. B. Rainsberger on Twitter

In this episode, Nick Schwaderer returns for a wide-ranging discussion that touches upon the weather in Belfast, my trip to France, cocktail recipes, the thrill of receiving snail mail, my new newsletter, ChatGPT and the alleged end of programming, and Nick's new project Scarpe.

• Nick Schwaderer on Twitter
• Schwad.github.io
• Rebuilding Rails by Noah Gibbs
• Nobody Knows Shoes by Why the Lucky Stiff
• Scarpe

In today's episode, Patricio Arluciaga and I discuss working together on separating the what from the how in software development.  We also touch on Patricio's time in the printing industry and his subsequent transition into programming.

• Patricio Arluciaga on Twitter 
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• Contact by Carl Sagan

On today's episode, I'm joined by Lucian Ghinda, creator of Short Ruby Newsletter.  We discuss tactics for reading technical books on unfamiliar topics, consistently delivering quality programming to production, programming as a mix of engineering and art, understanding the reasons why an approach was used rather than applying rules to determine whether code is "good" or "bad", and we go in-depth on duplication.

• Short Ruby Newsletter
• Cookpad
• Ruby and Rails.info
• Friendly.rb
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler 
• Ghinda.com
• Lucian Ghinda on Twitter