Another Dev's Two Cents

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AI

A collection of 8 issues

5 projects to build your AI engineering competency

I've spent the last 2 years building and interviewing candidates for AI Engineering roles. So I've been fortunate enough to watch the career track evolve from being a fringe amorphous role fueled by hype to a growing discipline in and of itself. AI Engineering as a

On AI and Learning

Over the weekend, I had some interesting discussions about the impacts AI on developer growth and skill atrophy. Much of that discussion was inspired by Mo Bitar's video on the subject. Within my small group, we couldn't come to a consensus on its impacts. We all

On the DORA 2025 AI Report - AI Adoption and use

The DORA State of AI Assisted Software Development report came out recently. It's a massive 142 page report that details analysis done by the DORA team. It captures trends and observations covering a 5000 participant study that focuses on AI Adoption and tool use in the Software industry.

Notes on the phi-4-reasoning Technical Paper

Phi-4 Reasoning Microsoft recently released the phi-4 reasoning model as well as its technical report. They explore using supervised finetuning as well as synthetic dataset curation to train phi-4 a 14B parameter model to compete with and often outperform significanly larger models such as DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B. We present Phi-4-reasoning, a 14-billion

RAG is not just text

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a common pattern in AI-powered apps that allows a model to generate completions using context data that might not have been available during training. It's beneficial when working with large language models because it helps the model make inferences on private data such

Is GitHub Copilot For Everyone?

I've been using GitHub Copilot (Copilot) for almost a year. As discussed in a previous write-up, I consider it a modern iteration of IntelliSense or autocomplete. If you're not yet acquainted with it, Copilot serves as an IDE integration that leverages the context surrounding your code

On OpenAI, GPT, and products

This week OpenAI had a fantastic keynote at their Dev Day event. They announced new products and enhancements to ChatGPT[1]. Interestingly, some parts of the internet described the keynote as an "Extinction Event"[2] for many AI startups. Many of the startups reportedly facing extinction share the

On AI-assisted Software Development

It is not every day we get new tools that have the potential to change the very nature of our jobs. If you haven't been following advancements in the AI scene, new Large Language Models (LLM), most notably GitHub's Copilot, Codex, and ChatGPT are beginning to