Faris Zacina

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Software engineering in the age of AI: programming integrated into organizations

In 2020 google defined software engineering as programming integrated over time. AI made the programming cheap, but software engineering is still expensive.

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52 articles since 2015

2026

  1. Software engineering in the age of AI: programming integrated into organizations17 min
  2. Does AI raise revenue per employee?9 min
  3. The AI Paradox, one year later16 min
  4. What comes after AGI? UBI, or something else20 min
  5. AI data centers: a deep dive18 min
  6. Hard vs Easy product9 min

2025

  1. How to Run Agile Product Development with Remote Teams (Founder Guide)9 min
  2. Measuring development productivity in the AI era: beyond lines of code and commits9 min

2024

  1. AI Copies. Founders Innovate.2 min
  2. Forget the Hype: AI Isn’t Taking Your Coding Job5 min
  3. Web Summit 101: A simple guide for first-timers at large events6 min

2023

  1. AI-assisted meetings1 min
  2. 50%+ of programmers still don't use AI tools to generate code in their normal daily workflow1 min
  3. ChatGPT is not replacing software engineers anytime soon1 min

2022

  1. How to stand out from the crowd and get an entry-level job in software engineering quickly4 min

2021

  1. Modern software organizations need zero square meters of office per employee2 min
  2. On the importance of advisory, mentorship, and coaching4 min

2020

  1. Startup Launch — Part 1: Product Hunt4 min
  2. Training and sleep for entrepreneurs, developers, and other busy people3 min
  3. Bias towards action1 min
  4. Open spaces are not the root of all evil2 min
  5. Entrepreneurship is wealth creation1 min
  6. (Some) meetings are useless1 min

2019

  1. The myths of startup recruitment8 min
  2. A git codebase off the shelf — A cautionary tale3 min
  3. The hidden benefits of activity and time tracking for a DevOps transformation4 min
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2018

  1. The surprising silos that create inefficiency in software organizations2 min
  2. The essence of proper development processes is frequent value delivery and feedback2 min
  3. The missing document in your GitHub repository — Architectural Design Decisions5 min
  4. We need T-Shaped full-stack developers10 min
  5. Rewriting and being on the cutting-edge are the new approach to get reputation on StackOverflow6 min
  6. Why developers hate chaos and expect order in startups4 min
  7. The subtle discipline of daily commits and value delivery5 min
  8. Deciphering the bitcoin and ethereum vocabulary4 min
  9. Hidden benefit of an ICO — Validate demand and Build a Community for Your product5 min

2017

  1. The Anecdotal Software Architect3 min

2016

  1. The cost of debugging1 min
  2. Startup Stories — Deciding architecture6 min
  3. StackOverflow — A strict community indeed4 min
  4. Second thoughts about React.js6 min
  5. Constants and Variables of Health2 min
  6. Slack anti-patterns3 min
  7. Don’t rush with ECC SSL certificates1 min
  8. Developing Fintech Startups4 min
  9. Polyglot programming in startup environments6 min

2015

  1. NPM is a kraken3 min
  2. How Babel compares against TypeScript4 min
  3. React js - The future king of universal apps?4 min
  4. Why you should stop using Angular 1.x right now4 min
  5. Professionals are a rare species2 min
  6. Programmer improvement by marginal gains4 min
  7. Typescript is the new Javascript5 min

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