Engineering is fundamentally a social activity. This might sound completely counter intuitive, but it's an important reality for understanding the nature of our work. In this episode, for those whom are in the industry already, I describe various tips for some challenging social situations we often experience, and for those who are not in our industry yet, I explain just how social this field actually is.

One of the most powerful and important axioms in software engineering, in my opinion, is "Ya Ain't Gonna Need It". This axiom tells us that we shouldn't be implementing code on pure speculation of customer needs, but rather wait until we have solid evidence of the need from customers. I explore multiple personal stories of this in action, tips for recognizing when speculation might be occurring, discuss language to combat it, and how we can also apply this to some of the code we write.

Technical interviews have been broken for a while. In this episode, I discuss how and why our process is broken, how the industry got here, explore how other industries handle their interviews, and discuss what our interview process should look like, and how to get there.

AI is everywhere, but is it going to take our jobs as software engineers? Should we start looking for other careers? Is it safe to enter this industry if you're just entering college? We take a look at historical examples, compare this cycle with others in the past, attempt to understand what AI is good at and predict what likely will happen in the future.