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In this episode we dive into another awesome article from Abi Noda, Using AI to encourage best practices in the code review process. This article covers a recent research paper released from Google outlining the performance, pitfalls, and process of their in-house AI code review bot. We talk about the role of AI in code reviews, our personal views on what code review is all about, and get existential on AI taking our jobs (again). Despite the AI title, this one is just as much about code review in general as it is about AI so if you're sick of AI content - there's still something here for you.
In this episode we cover "Why I'm skeptical of rewriting javascript tools in faster languages" by Nolan Lawson. This is an interesting intersection between tech problems and people problems. There's been a recent wave of venerable JS-based tools being re-written in Rust, Go, Zig, etc. They come...
Published 10/26/24
In this episode, we cover "Pair Programming" written by the inimitable Matt Hamlin. We talk about what pair programming is, why you might do it, and when you maybe shouldn't.
In other news, Joe forgets how to intro the show and Evan drank too much coffee before recording.
Published 10/12/24