AI coding feels magical when features appear in minutes. Then a stubborn bug exposes the hidden reality: building dependable software still requires architecture, testing, patience, expertise, and ...

Pull request volume is up, cycle times are down and engineers are shipping more in a week than they used to manage in a month. Our engineers ship an average of 10 PRs a week, with each often larger in ...

The implication for enterprise engineering organizations is that AI adoption does not eliminate the cost of expertise; it ...

Modern multithreaded, asynchronous code can be hard to debug. The complexity that comes with message passing and thread management results in bugs that can seem non-determinant, with little or no way ...

If you have ever tried to debug optimized code, you probably realized that it can be a frustrating experience. Without optimizations, your debugger is a reliable assistant, precisely following every ...

Running a debugger like gdb with real-mode 16-bit code on the x86 platform is not the easiest thing to do, but incredibly useful when it comes to analyzing BIOS firmware and DOS software. Although ...

Back in the day, we'd write some code, compile, execute, see what happened and repeat. That was testing. (Sometimes that's still what testing looks like, for better or worse.) Today, we can do a lot ...

SSH is the best feature for remote development.

With the June 2021 release of VS Code, Microsoft also unveiled plans for improving the editor’s Java support in coming months. Microsoft has released version 1.58 of Visual Studio Code, also known as ...

Back in the day, we'd write some code, compile, execute, see what happened and repeat. That was testing. (Sometimes that's still what testing looks like, for better or worse.) Today, we can do a lot ...