Stuck in the Filter - W37

Scott Wu

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-devin-replaces-your-junior-engineers

Watch now | 🎙️Cognition Labs’ CEO shares how his team uses their AI coding agent Devin as a first-line responder for engineering tasks, multiplayer problem-solving, and asynchronous development

Engineering excellence starts on edge

https://world.hey.com/dhh/engineering-excellence-starts-on-edge-c36e4c59

The best engineering teams take control of their tools. They help develop the frameworks and libraries they depend on, and they do this by running production code on edge — the unreleased next version. That’s where progress is made, that’s where participation matters most. This sounds scary at first. Edge? Isn’t that just another word…

Being good isn’t enough

https://joshs.bearblog.dev/being-good-isnt-enough

Giving good career advice is hard. Maybe it’s because careers can look more alike than they really are. Two people can have the same title but what helps one…

GitHub - Varietyz/Disciplined-AI-Software-Development: This methodology provides a structured approach for collaborating with AI systems on software development projects. It addresses common issues like code bloat, architectural drift, and context dilution through systematic constraints and validation checkpoints.

https://github.com/Varietyz/Disciplined-AI-Software-Development

This methodology provides a structured approach for collaborating with AI systems on software development projects. It addresses common issues like code bloat, architectural drift, and context dilu…

Ad/no: Procrastination Rabbit Hole Finder

https://wgx.github.io/adno/

New! Now with 20,000 Words!

The Philosophy of Software Design – with John Ousterhout

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-philosophy-of-software-design

Stanford professor John Ousterhout explains why thoughtful software design matters more than ever as AI tools transform coding practices and developer workflows.

AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison (DataSette, Lanyrd, Eventbrite)

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-tools-for-software-engineers-simon-willison

Simon is one of the best-known software engineers experimenting with LLMs to boost his own productivity: he’s been doing this for more than three years, blogging about it in the open.

Kent Beck

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-agents-and-coding-with-kent

Kent Beck—creator of Extreme Programming and co-author of the Agile Manifesto—reflects on decades of coding, from the birth of TDD to his experiments with AI tools shaping software’s future.

AI cuts onboarding time in half for new hires in the enterprise

https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/ai-cuts-developer-onboarding-time-in-half

Data from DX shows that engineers who use AI daily reach onboarding milestones nearly twice as fast as non-users.

Acknowledgments

I didn't invented the idea of grabbing everything I couldn't process and putting it in a document. I just borrowed it (the idea and the name) from the 'Angry Metal Guy' website, which has been doing this for years. You can check their Stuck in the Filter series for more details.