Every few years the industry rediscovers that programming languages are not religions. Then we immediately behave like they are religions. Someone posts a benchmark. Someone else says memory safety. Someone says developer experience. A distributed systems person appears from under a bridge and whispers “Erlang solved this in 1998.” A startup founder announces they are rewriting their CRUD app in R
Becoming a tech lead was the goal from pretty early in my career. I had a clear picture of what the role was. More responsibility, more influence over the work, more of the interesting problems landing on my desk because someone had to figure them out and that someone, finally, would be me. It read like the natural next step. The thing you graduate to once you're good enough. What that picture did
I watched 30 users talk to the same voice agent Same script. Same questions. The only thing I changed was the response latency: 300ms, 500ms, 800ms. At 300ms, people just talked. No awkward pauses, no confusion. One user didn't even realize it was an AI until I told her afterward. At 500ms, something shifted. Users started talking over the agent. They'd ask a question, wait half a second, then r
Reaching an annual salary of ¥8,000,000 is often seen as a major milestone for software engineers in Japan in 2026. On paper, it sounds like a ticket to a comfortable, upper-middle-class life in Tokyo. But is 8 million yen a good salary in Tokyo—really? But if you are coming from abroad—or if you've only looked at the "Gross" figure on your offer letter—you might be walking into a "logic bug" that
Hey Dev Community, Like many of you, I hit a wall with GA4. It’s powerful, sure—but it’s also cluttered, slow, and often feels like it was designed for a data scientist rather than a developer or a brand owner who just needs to see what’s working. I wanted something different. I wanted a platform that felt like a developer tool: minimalist, tech-oriented, and focused on actual insight rather than
Background A nasty surprise Last summer while trying to deliver a feature for one of our customers, I encountered a nasty situation. The software we were developing, depended on a production grade license of Gurobi. People were on vacations except of my team and some unrelated staff, so developing the feature was in principle blocked. As I learnt due to some other situations, research
Si tu as 30 secondes. La mémoire versionnée d'un workflow Claude Code a un effet de bord que personne ne signale : une règle mémorisée qui colle au symptôme de manière plausible court-circuite la vérification, même quand elle ne s'applique pas au compteur précis que tu regardes. Je me suis coûté vingt minutes d'exploration SQL la semaine dernière parce qu'une règle de la forme du bug — sans en êtr
Technical debt and AI: is it gone? Lorenzo Battilocchi May 4 #ai #programming #management #technology 5 reactions Add Comment 3 min read