Monica and Urban discuss their work life as developers and development managers.
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We finally come back to the mic to talk about what everyone is talking about: LLMs at work. Urban has stopped handwriting code, Monica is delegating debugging to Claude between meetings, and we both wonder out loud whether our processes, our hiring, and honestly our jobs are quietly being rewritten while we ride the wave. Mentioned Destroying the Machines, with Brian Merchant The engineering…
We finally have the in depth discussion about LLMs, how we use them, and what we think they might evolve into. We also touch on starting to pay more and more for stuff. Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it . Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Bluesky: @nirnaeth.bsky.social Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online…
It's side project time! Urban talks about moving a project from Heroku to fly.io and Monica starts volunteering her time to stay motivated. Fountain Pen Companion FPC Github repository [fly.io](fly.io) LiteFS Pgvector Vostel Freetown Christiania Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it . Where to find Monica on the internet: Website:…
Urban gets his AWS certificate and we discuss certifications in general and what they are good for. Especially in a B2B world. We also talk about project management and how no one seems to be in charge in a lot of places, as well as LLM generated code as yet another level of abstraction. Roles and Responsibilities retro Trillions by Robin Wigglesworth Dreamweaver AI Won't Fix the Fundamental Flaw…
In this episode we discuss meeting in person, thinking about architecture, and most importantly finding out the WHY for things. Fundamentals of Software Architecture How to think like an architect Architectural Katas Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it . Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Mastodon:…
In this episode we discuss LLMs, writing blog posts, running retros (in spreadsheets!), Shape Up and other processes. We end by asking YOU (the listener) to get back to us with what process you are using and if it works for you or not. Using a LLM to fight spam Obie Fernandez: Pioneering AI in Ruby on Rails Development Retromat Avoiding Waste retro Shape Up™ Ask questions via our anonymous…
In this episode we talk about certifications and how they are somehow similar to hiring, cheating during interviews, and the pitfalls of employee surveys. Goodhart’s law Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it . Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online Github: @nirnaeth Blog:…
It's been a hot minute since the last episode and a lot has happened. Urban and Monica discuss their new jobs, getting fired, and of course LLMs! https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/blog/10-new-pen-and-ink-suggestion-widget-now-with-ai https://cursor.sh/ Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it . Where to find Monica on the internet:…
Urban tells about his new job, and how it's quite different than the previous one. Monica thinks about her future and what kind of job to do next. Martijn Doolaard (renovating in the Italian Alps) Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it . Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online…
Urban is just chilling, but Monica is trying to help her team to be less scared about releasing to production and maybe ... maybe go back to being a developer ... at some point. Cypress Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it . You can follow us on Twitter at @podcast_eb . Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me…
