A curated reading list exploring AI's impact on tech management, software development, and SRE, with links to articles and blogs.
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Brent Ozar demonstrates using sp_BlitzCache and AI to quickly tune SQL Server queries by identifying bottlenecks and applying performance advice.
A curated reading list covering AI's impact on software engineering, CI/CD for coding agents, Google's Agent Executor, Go error handling, and tech trends.
Analyzes how AI will create new jobs but only for the top 1-5% of the population, leading to societal inequality.
Explores using AI tools like Claude and Codex to write high-quality code slowly by finding and fixing bugs in PRs.
Analysis of rising demand for Forward Deployed Engineers at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with simplified hiring and outsourced deployment.
Learn how to automate security operations by combining Renovate with AI to triage dependency update PRs and detect breaking changes.
Exploring grief in the AI era through the five stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Analysis of AI as a foundational technology rather than a standalone product, critiquing industry hype and Apple's product-first approach.
Analysis of AI's role in data sovereignty, focusing on economics, data interaction, and the shift from storage concerns to query visibility.
A philosophical argument for keeping Markdown over HTML as the primary format for AI use-cases, valuing text as a pure form of thought.
Explores how AI impacts software engineers' roles, focusing on mental load and the value of ownership.
A software engineer shares personal thoughts on AI, fears, opinions, and evolving mental journey through the tech landscape.
Analysis of GitHub's recent reliability issues including data integrity bugs and outages, questioning why other vendors aren't similarly affected.
A critical analysis of how AI-generated content is overwhelming and damaging online communities, with a call for quality over quantity.
Analysis of Y Combinator's stake in OpenAI and its implications for Sam Altman's trustworthiness.
Explores motivated reasoning in the context of AI concerns for software development, questioning personal biases.
Explores the potential of small language models (SLMs) in browsers, highlighting benefits like privacy, low cost, and offline use.
A guide on how to work effectively with AI, focusing on workflows, scaling, and compounding improvements through context, config, and feedback loops.
Article discusses the importance of using evals to measure AI improvements when adding AI skills to your resume.
