On the lighter side
“I don’t care about the definition because to me, even if when people ask me, what do I do? And nobody would understand the normies that I talk with outside my home. It’s just that I make things.”
— regarding a “definition of a developer”
Tips, insights and commentary
“Are we going to have to date our agents for the agentic revolution? And then conversely, just to go back to the Metallica example, because I’m thinking—I’m loving the fact that we’re talking about Metallica this much—but David, what if they don’t want old folks at the concert? Can they be like, oh, are you over 33? No, we can’t sell you a ticket. Just saying, you know, I don’t want to go to a concert filled with white hairs” —Robert Jacobi, The Evolution of Hosting Security Standards and the Impact on Emerging Technologies
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“I think it’s important for a career longevity standpoint to have your eye on things outside of the ecosystem that is currently feeding you. It’s a lesson I learned the very hard way, multiple times, but it is one that I’m not going to get caught up by again. Expanding your stack can only increase your value.” — Zach Stepek Navigating Tech Shifts, Expanding Your Developer Toolkit
On Navigating the Hype and Building Responsibly
“I think it’s really, really easy to buy into the hype and the, and, and the hype. The message from the hypers is something like don’t get behind, don’t let that person who knows AI take your job away. Don’t let AI take your job away. And it’s like this very scarcity, fear focused rhetoric… I want to believe that this is a world where we can focus on abundance and like, you know, not getting pulled under the wave. Not getting. And just think, well, what do they tell you if you’re at the beach and you get pulled under by a, a riptide? Like, swim parallel to the shore… maintain your integrity. What are you building for? Who’s benefiting? Who’s the end user? What do they really need? And not losing sight of that just to like, throw some fancy tech in for the sake of throwing fancy tech in. Because again, it, it wouldn’t be incremental and sustainable if the whole purpose is it’s just this shiny toy.” — Kimberly Pace Becker, Navigating AI Integration and Ethics in Open Source Communities
