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What are tech companies looking for these days that you don't see in job descriptions, and are unlikely to come up in interviews, but still usually looked out for?
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Is AI really bringing/brought undeniable doom to Junior web developer roles. If yes, how can one adapt without selling their soul to prompting away all the knowledge they've gathered?
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I keep track of an "ideal architecture", one that I would use if tasked to design a new system from scratch. For several years now this was AWS serverless. The AWS part is personal: this is the stack I'm most familiar with. And serverless because it works the same for small and for large. It is a magical feeling to do a terraform apply and see that all the different parts are coming live, ready to serve whatever load coming its way. A well-....
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In this post, I’ll show you how to think about AI agents through the infrastructure patterns you already use. Think about your CI runner. It spins up an environment. Runs some steps. Reads files. Runs tests. Captures output. Decides what to do next. Knows when to stop. Now swap out the hardcoded logic for an LLM. That’s it. That’s an AI agent in simpler terms. The fancy demos want you to think it’s magic. Some brand new thing you need to ....
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Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer
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Sometimes I get asked questions that would be more fun to answer in public. All letters are treated as anonymous unless permission is otherwise granted. Hello [Redacted]! You asked about a friend's son who is a recent graduate looking for work as a software developer and having a hard time. I like to think of three key aspects of getting a job: 1) knowing where to apply, 2) getting an interview at all, and 3) passing the interview. K....
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In this post, I’ll show you how to think about AI agents through the infrastructure patterns you already use. Think about your CI runner. It spins up an environment. Runs some steps. Reads files. Runs tests. Captures output. Decides what to do next. Knows when to stop. Now swap out the hardcoded logic for an LLM. That’s it. That’s an AI agent in simpler terms. The fancy demos want you to think it’s magic. Some brand new thing you need to ....
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Like many coders, I participated in Advent of Code 2025. However, this year I want to make it challenging. Learning Rust or Elixir are both tempting options, but why not go for something a bit more out there? I want to solve every problem with the GPU not the CPU. Which means a compute shader. I chose to use Swift and Metal as my shader language. Mostly because I was using a Mac and partly because I’ve been meaning to improve my Swift skill..
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PyCoder's Weekly included over 1,500 links to articles, blog posts, tutorials, and projects in 2025. Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week to help wrap up everything by sharing some highlights and uncovering a few hidden gems from the pile.
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MCP-first nowadays it's possible to build new products in MCP -first way. we had web first, native first, local first, mobile first approaches in the previous decades. now we have a new way: build a backend for your product and expose its functionality as MCP server. now any MCP client (like Claude and others) can use your new product. so UI is already there, Claude becomes your UI and you can focus on the logic. if I start workin..
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MCP-first nowadays it's possible to build new products in MCP -first way. we had web first, native first, local first, mobile first approaches in the previous decades. now we have a new way: build a backend for your product and expose its functionality as MCP server. now any MCP client (like Claude and others) can use your new product. so UI is already there, Claude becomes your UI and you can focus on the logic. if I start workin..
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MCP-first nowadays it's possible to build new products in MCP -first way. we had web first, native first, local first, mobile first approaches in the previous decades. now we have a new way: build a backend for your product and expose its functionality as MCP server. now any MCP client (like Claude and others) can use your new product. so UI is already there, Claude becomes your UI and you can focus on the logic. if I start workin..
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