Don’t be cantankerous. David Heinemeier Hansson has some advice for engineers as they adjust to AI. Often referred to as DHH, Hansson created the webapp framework Ruby on Rails and has fashioned himself into a software sage. On Monday, Hansson shared his prediction on X: “The age of agents is going to be amazing for
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation for our Cost of Living video series with Devonte Duncan, 27, a software engineer living in Brooklyn, New York City. It has been edited for length and clarity. When I started making six figures, I remember my friends and I would go out to eat, and the
If you ask tech workers what people don’t understand about working in their industry, they’ll tell you: a lot of things. In interviews with Business Insider, tech professionals at companies like Amazon, Google, and Snap challenged assumptions that their jobs consist primarily of coding, that AI has made their jobs easier, and that Big Tech
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aashna Doshi, a 23-year-old former Google software engineer based in New York City. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I took a big risk to get my Google job. Now I’m taking another one by leaving it. Around February 2024, months before graduating
