Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Interesting Talk: "Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study)"

I've just watched this great talk by Yegor Denisov-Blanch
What I like about this one is that it's not from an AI company. At least there's less conflict of interest to begin with.

Interesting things:
  • The sample is quite large and they are companies with large codebases, not startups making MVPs.
  • They take into account the delivered functionality, not just more commits.
  • They take into account rework.
  • They take into account the complexity of the tasks.
  • They take into account the popularity of the language you use.
  • They take into account whether you're working in a legacy code base or not.
The results are very interesting.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Books I read (January - July 2025)

January
- The three body problem, Liu Cixin
- Dark Forest, Liu Cixin
- Programming with Types, Vlad Riscutia
- Saturation point, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Death's End, Liu Cixin

February
- One Day All This Will Be Yours, Adrian Tchaikovsky

March
- El invierno en Lisboa, Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Walking to Aldebaran, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Interface-Oriented Design, Ken Pugh

April
- Elegant objects 2, Yegor Bugayenko
- Orbital, Samantha Harvey
- Song yet sung, James McBride
- Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win, Ken Auer, Roy W. Miller

May
- Extreme Programming Explored, William C. Wake
- Some desperate Glory, Emily Tesh
- Refactoring in large software projects, Stefan Roock, Martín Lippert
- Test-lists utilization in TDD: The role of test-lists in requirements traceability, Hassan Mahmood Khan, Ibrar Arshad (master thesis)
- The role of slicing in TDD, Dieste et al. (paper)
- Impact Mapping, Gojko Adzic

June
- Searching for Opportunities of Refactoring Sequences: Reducing the Search Space, Piveta et al. (paper)
- Be a Learning Machine, Alberto Souza
- GRASP and GOF Patterns in Solving Design Problems, R.M.Noorullah (paper)
- Raciones de diseño de software: Mini ensayos para developers, Fran Iglesias
- Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide, Dave Astels
- Flexible, Reliable Software, Using Patterns and Agile Development, Henrik Bærbak Christensen
- The BDD Books - Discovery: Explore behaviour using examples, Gáspár Nagy, Seb Rose

July
- Pon tu código en forma con calistenia, Fran Iglesias
- Designing Object Systems: Object-oriented Modelling with Syntropy, Steve Cook, John Daniels
- How the Practice of TDD Influences Class Design in Object-Oriented Systems: Patterns of Unit Tests Feedback, Mauricio Aniche, Marco Aurelio Gerosa (paper)
- Taming your dragon: Addressing Your Technical Debt, Dr. Andrew Richard Brown

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Books I read (January - June 2025)

January
- The three body problem, Liu Cixin
- Dark Forest, Liu Cixin
- Programming with Types, Vlad Riscutia
- Saturation point, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Death's End, Liu Cixin

February
- One Day All This Will Be Yours, Adrian Tchaikovsky

March
- El invierno en Lisboa, Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Walking to Aldebaran, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Interface-Oriented Design, Ken Pugh

April
- Elegant objects 2, Yegor Bugayenko
- Orbital, Samantha Harvey
- Song yet sung, James McBride
- Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win, Ken Auer, Roy W. Miller

May
- Extreme Programming Explored, William C. Wake
- Some desperate Glory, Emily Tesh
- Refactoring in large software projects, Stefan Roock, Martín Lippert
- Test-lists utilization in TDD: The role of test-lists in requirements traceability, Hassan Mahmood Khan, Ibrar Arshad (master thesis)
- The role of slicing in TDD, Dieste et al. (paper)
- Impact Mapping, Gojko Adzic

June
- Searching for Opportunities of Refactoring Sequences: Reducing the Search Space, Piveta et al. (paper)
- Be a Learning Machine, Alberto Souza
- Grasp and GOF Patterns in Solving Design Problems, R.M.Noorullah (paper)
- Raciones de diseño de software: Mini ensayos para developers, Fran Iglesias
- Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide, Dave Astels
- Flexible, Reliable Software, Using Patterns and Agile Development, Henrik Bærbak Christensen
- The BDD Books - Discovery: Explore behaviour using examples, Gáspár Nagy, Seb Rose