Never Rewrite: Software Engineering & AI Coding

Isaac and Jeffrey explore the significance of maintenance work for developers, stressing its strategic value during uncertain periods like layoffs. They share personal experiences, highlighting how tackling these tasks can lead to trust, new opportunities, and a more impactful role within a team.

Isaac and Jeffrey dissect the flaws in the interviewing process and offer valuable insights for both interviewers and interviewees. They discuss the broken aspects of traditional interviews, highlight the importance of resume tailoring, and share anecdotes about handling past job experiences during interviews. The episode serves as a guide for interviewers to improve the hiring process and for can...

Jeffrey & Isaac discuss why understanding how your company makes money can help you build products that solve the right problems.

Jeffrey & Isaac discuss methods to clear out your recurring meetings and protect your time as new meetings get added to your calendar.

Continuing our F*ck-Up Friday series, Jeffrey has another humorous story where he went out of his way to fix functionality to match the name of its function...with expensive results.

In this humorous holiday episode, Isaac and Jeffrey discuss ways to be the worst possible teammate in ways that won’t get you immediately terminated by HR. If you didn’t make the naughty list this year and want to lock it in next time, this episode is for you!

Isaac and Jeffrey continue discussions around testing brownfield code, delving deeper into next steps and refactoring. Our ‘FlowSheet’ guide to help you with your testing and refactoring decisions: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64127dab7e53173c1e7c39a1/9d699636-4625-4fc3-862c-a66907fd47dc/Getting+Started+With+Brownfield+Code.png?format=2500w

Brownfield code is existing code (rather than new code) that you might need to add tests for. Join us for a two-part episode on how to get started testing and refactoring existing applications.

Isaac and Jeffrey discuss ways to improve yourself outside of traditional means like college, courses, or reading.

A non technical story of deception, good deeds with terrible consequences, and weak HR.

Sometimes an upgrade to a new version of a framework takes weeks or even months. What do you do when you need to make changes to areas that are being affected by the upgrade?

Special Guest Aadil Farid joins us again to continue his discussion on the harsh realities he confronted when he led a team that computerized ticketing on India’s Railways in the 1980s.

Special Guest Aadil Farid joins us to discuss the harsh realities he confronted when he led a team that computerized ticketing on India’s Railways in the 1980s.

Special guest Brian Genisio from Khan Academy joins us to talk about their 3.5 year rewrite that successfully wrapped up this year. Learn how Brian’s team was able to achieve the nearly impossible act of successfully completing a rewrite using many of the techniques we’ve talked about in the past, plus some brand new ones! If you want to learn about what it takes to do a rewrite, buckle up!

AI tools can now write your incident retrospectives. Do developers lose by not formalizing their thoughts by writing?  In this episode Isaac and Jeffrey weigh the pros and cons of having AI write incident retrospectives and documentation.

Senior DevOps Engineer Rob Gonnella joins us in this special episode to live workshop an example of a rewrite case he believes is valid.

Jeffrey has been running an iterative refactoring workshop to improve his colleague’s development skills. This episode dives into how the workshop is run, what the developers get out of it, and how it directly improves the company’s codebase. If you’ve ever wanted to help your fellow developers but didn’t know how to start, this show is for you!

In this episode Isaac defines impostor syndrome and ways to combat the feelings that you aren't qualified for your job.

Sometimes companies shrink instead of grow, and that impacts your work, your team, and your career. In this episode we discuss what to expect from a shrinking company.

Jeffrey identifies a strategy we employed in a previous project that helped us dramatically improve the experience of 90% of our customers without requiring a complete rewrite of an email sending engine.

Isaac discusses strategies he's used to help companies upgrade their software, and Jeffrey helps distill them into a series of steps.

In this episode Jeffrey discusses a f*ck-up of his own for this special 'F*ck-Up Friday' series - how a develop lost $1 billion (just for a little while).

Jeffrey suggests using a straw man to help facilitate difficult conversations about how to proceed; Isaac adds further examples and methods by which teams can generate productive conversations.

In this episode Jeffrey brings up red flag development ideas that should make you second guess whether or not you're making the right decision for your product.

In this episode Isaac and Jeffrey discuss the concept of a product MVP and misconceptions around what a 'minimum viable product' has to be.