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The Pragmatic Engineer
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    The Pragmatic Engineer
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    Jul 31
    “Why is it hard for us to reason about concurrent systems?” Hillel Wayne, Formal Methods Consultant and Software Historian, on why it isn’t a ‘brain’ problem: "When you cross the street, aren't you working with a concurrent system? There's cars everywhere. They're going to hit
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    Jul 30
    Is math useful for programming? Hillel Wayne, Formal Methods Consultant, says it is useful but software engineers are often exposed to the wrong type: “I wonder sometimes if the reason people don't recognize the use of math in software engineering is because the math they do
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    Jul 30
    "What formal methods ask is: can we use mathematics to show that it works not just for the cases that you asked for, but every single possible list you pass in? And that is done through proof. Coming up with some sort of mathematical argument that this code matches this spec."
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    Jul 29
    There’s a popular theory that AI will finally make formal verification mainstream because mathematical proof of correctness will be needed when machines write most or all of the code. But will this happen? Hillel Wayne is one of the best people to answer. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro
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    Jul 28
    How is building software changing inside of one of most "AI-pilled" companies, Anthropic? We talked with engineers inside the AI lab to share details relevant for any and all software engineers and AI engineers. Spoiler: two-pizza teams have not gone anywhere! Read it here:
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    Jul 28
    “It was like horse-driven computing”. @KentBeck, TDD creator, on how he and Erich Gamma wrote JUnit on a plane with no internet and no power: “Erich Gamma and I were flying to America. He was going to show me Java. I was going to show him SUnit. We developed JUnit on the
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