Never Rewrite: Software Engineering & AI Coding

A non technical story of deception, good deeds with terrible consequences, and weak HR.

Sometimes an upgrade to a new version of a framework takes weeks or even months. What do you do when you need to make changes to areas that are being affected by the upgrade?

Special Guest Aadil Farid joins us again to continue his discussion on the harsh realities he confronted when he led a team that computerized ticketing on India’s Railways in the 1980s.

Special Guest Aadil Farid joins us to discuss the harsh realities he confronted when he led a team that computerized ticketing on India’s Railways in the 1980s.

Special guest Brian Genisio from Khan Academy joins us to talk about their 3.5 year rewrite that successfully wrapped up this year. Learn how Brian’s team was able to achieve the nearly impossible act of successfully completing a rewrite using many of the techniques we’ve talked about in the past, plus some brand new ones! If you want to learn about what it takes to do a rewrite, buckle up!

AI tools can now write your incident retrospectives. Do developers lose by not formalizing their thoughts by writing?  In this episode Isaac and Jeffrey weigh the pros and cons of having AI write incident retrospectives and documentation.

Senior DevOps Engineer Rob Gonnella joins us in this special episode to live workshop an example of a rewrite case he believes is valid.

Jeffrey has been running an iterative refactoring workshop to improve his colleague’s development skills. This episode dives into how the workshop is run, what the developers get out of it, and how it directly improves the company’s codebase. If you’ve ever wanted to help your fellow developers but didn’t know how to start, this show is for you!

In this episode Isaac defines impostor syndrome and ways to combat the feelings that you aren't qualified for your job.

Sometimes companies shrink instead of grow, and that impacts your work, your team, and your career. In this episode we discuss what to expect from a shrinking company.