What Does It Mean to Be a Developer in the Age of AI Agents? October 15, 2025, Philadelphia, PA At a recent Chariot Solutions panel discussion hosted at Certara (thanks Martin Snyder!), technology leaders gathered to explore one of the most pressing questions facing the software industry today: how is the developer’s role evolving as … Read More
Tool Limitations In Part 1, we went over converting natural language requests into commands, using LLMs. That’s a nice improvement from having to enter slash commands, but the current tool still has two major limitations: No flexible editing: There’s no way to update or delete an existing item using natural language. When referring to a … Read More
What We’re Building When I recently paired with Claude Code to build a text-based to-do app (code available on Github, disclaimer: mostly generated by Claude), I wanted to add a simple natural language interface. In this post, we’ll build that feature using TypeScript, Node, and an OpenAI model, without using any special frameworks that might … Read More
Your CTO messages you out of the blue one day: How much effort would it be to run XYZ on Kubernetes? Shudder. Although there are some nuances to the process, it is fairly straightforward. This article assumes some knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, and JVM applications. Our goal is to migrate the application with as few … Read More
My motivation for creating tools often stems from a desire to get familiar with new technologies. This project was no different; I wanted to deepen my understanding of Generative AI. However, this wasn’t the primary reason for its creation. The real driving force was a persistent gap in my workflow that I couldn’t ignore any … Read More
Lambda SnapStart is intended to improve the cold start time for a Lambda function. It’s been available for Java workloads since 2022, and was recently released for Python and .Net workloads. It works by running the initialization code of your Lambda function when you release a version, and then storing an image of the Lambda execution environment. Cold starts load this image rather than running the initialization themselves. Given that cold starts happen unpredictably, and may be measured in seconds, this seems like a win-win situation.
The reality, as usual, is more nuanced. SnapStart introduces its own cold start delays, as it loads the image into the runtime. And it increases the time and effort of deployment. In this post I drill down into the nuance, so that you can decide whether it’s a worthwhile choice fo your project.
Introduction When developers start a new software project, they frequently give a lot of consideration to the choice of programming language or languages, frameworks, and persistence tools; however, they often give little thought to how the services or endpoints will communicate. Projects will automatically select REST, or something REST-like for this communication. There are other … Read More
No matter how rapidly the world of software development may change, one constant is the need to ensure the quality, functionality, and reliability of our software applications. As our demand for more and more complex applications continues to increase, so does the risk, not only that developers might program something incorrectly thereby introducing bugs, but … Read More
Data Scientists spend their days working in Jupyter notebooks, which are then passed to an implementation team to prepare for production. This post guides you through that process, emphasizing iterative refinement. I will be using the scikit-learn and XGBoost libraries, but other ML libraries could be swapped in. While scikit-learn offers a comprehensive library of … Read More
My motivation for creating tools often stems from a desire to get familiar with new technologies. This project was no different; I wanted to deepen my understanding of Generative AI. However, this wasn’t the primary reason for its creation. The real driving force was a persistent gap in my workflow that I couldn’t ignore any … Read More
