The rapid advancement of AI has sparked an ongoing debate in software development: Should companies replace junior developers with AI-powered tools and a few senior engineers, or should they invest in training juniors to become future seniors while leveraging AI to enhance their productivity? While both perspectives have merit, the ideal solution is often a…
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When Product Owners Ignore Security: Why Experienced Developers Matter
In the modern tech landscape, product owners often assume that software will “just work” safely. But security isn’t automatic, and a lack of foundational understanding can lead to serious vulnerabilities. While AI has become a valuable tool in development, it cannot replace the expertise of seasoned developers who can anticipate, diagnose, and resolve complex security…
The Rise of AI Wrappers: Are AI Providers the New Telecoms?
Artificial intelligence has experienced an explosion of growth in recent years, with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google leading the charge in providing powerful foundational models. But despite their immense computational capabilities, these AI providers are increasingly finding themselves in a familiar position—one that resembles the fate of telecom giants in the past. In the…
AI: A Gift for Junior Developers, a Curse for Tech Leads
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing software development, making it easier for less experienced developers to write code, generate solutions, and build applications faster than ever before. But as AI lowers the barrier to entry, it creates an unexpected challenge—an increasing burden on tech leads who must navigate a landscape filled with AI-assisted code that often lacks…
Decisions, decisions, decisions
Year 2020 has taught us many things but not everyone was listening to the lectures. We are living in constantly evolving world and no matter how much we want to standardize our lives and how much we hate changes they happen all the time. Last year really showed us we cannot control the future and…
Homebrew: How to start and stop background services
View image | gettyimages.com Anyone that has installed application running in the background from Homebrew, knows how to use launchctl that actually runs every application when the computer restarts. It is pretty straight forward task but most of the time you need to know the location of the .plist file that defines how to run it…
Stop procrastinating! How to prevent it.
Still trying to stop procrastinating? There are probably numerous days that you site behind the computer to do some research or get some work done and doing a short break to read some news or check social updates and as you done this you aren’t aware that time passes as you jump from one link to another…
AngularJS ngInclude directive and scope inheritance
ngInclude directive and scope There are many times when you want to include a html snippet code from another file but preserve the scope of it. It is usually when you have different form fields for the various objects and you want to have a global controller that oversees the updating of different forms. So if you want…
Extending Javascript objects with a help of AngularJS extend method
Multiple ways of extending javascript objects /** * One-way reference from subclass to superclass (instance) * Most of the time this is what you want. It should be done * before adding other methods to Subclass. */ ChildClass.prototype = new SuperClass(); /** * Two-way reference * Superclass will also get any Subclass methods added later….
Be that likable person
Become genuinely interested in other people. Smile. Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. Talk in terms of the other person’s interests. Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely. Smile, smile,…