Career & Craft
How developers grow, adapt, learn, and keep building useful judgment.
← All dispatchesA Degree for the AI-Native Software Developer
A practical four-year degree should prepare developers to understand business problems, design software, direct AI-assisted work, and verify the results.
Your Experience Should Not Be Trapped Behind One Keyboard
AI does not make decades of software experience irrelevant. It gives experienced developers more ways to apply their judgment, direct work, and create functioning solutions.
The Jordan-Karpathy Effect
AI amplifies the foundation you bring to it. Senior engineers get leverage because they have judgment, standards, and enough context to direct the tool.
Stop Telling Kids to Major in Computer Science
AI writes the code now. The skill that matters is understanding the business problem. For most software careers, a business degree with a CS minor wins.
Think about RIOTS
CRUD describes what happens to stored records. RIOTS helps developers trace how data moves and changes between those operations.
MVP in Personal Projects
The hardest discipline in personal projects is building the smallest thing that proves your idea works, not the grand vision you have in your head.