Essays for developers

We should take AI models seriously, which means taking their evaluation seriously

Monitoring that even (Franz) Kafka would approve of

Rather than ship data to code, which is expensive and latency-prone, why not ship code to the data?

The burden of scientific knowledge and managerial complexity is crushing our best and brightest.

Why you shouldn’t filter for social media following or prior experience

Quantifying the billion dollar impact of developer inefficiency

Adding more cooks to the kitchen rarely helps

Developer productivity is falling. But it doesn't have to. The solution? The Developer Productivity Flywheel

The biggest challenges facing developer productivity startups today

Why Vectorized's focus on developer experience will unlock real-time streaming for the great majority of developers

Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers

Large Transformer trained on large datasets outperform CNN-based architectures and achieve state of the art results on i...

Transformer model pre-trained on document retrieval and reconstruction performs well on both fine-tuned and zero-shot do...

What's top of mind for developer productivity leaders

We interviewed developer productivity leaders. Here's what they said.

Do college-educated developers earn more? Yes, but less than you might think

Working remote even just a few days per month leads to higher pay

Progress on narrowing pay gaps among software developers

Engineers are the basic economic unit of modern software development. The software production function depends critical...

Note: You can find this analysis updated for 2020 here . Dev fell in love with code at a young age. He graduated from ...

Human capital is our greatest asset. Like financial capital, the all-powerful force of compound growth means that a sm...