The Principal Engineer

The limits and possibilities of AI Assistants

The discourse on AI-generated code is stuck in a false dichotomy peddled by both proponents and detractors.

May 2 • 

Wille Faler

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January 2025

Generative AI will displace fewer jobs than you think

The current generation of AI is productivity boosting, but will ultimately fall short of expectations without significant, unknown scientific…

Jan 13 • 

Wille Faler

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December 2024

AI and the coming boom in demand for Human Intelligence

History teaches us that AI will increase, not decrease, the demand for human intelligence. Mostly so in skilled professions that are the most impacted…

Dec 30, 2024 • 

Wille Faler

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How I use AI to boost my Software Engineering productivity

AI still hallucinates, generates slop, and can't reason about the big picture. But it's still an incredible productivity tool for software engineers…

Dec 17, 2024 • 

Wille Faler

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When is a CTO not a CTO?

Title inflation is real. Many of the individuals in industry with the title "CTO", really are no such thing. Let's dig deeper!

Dec 3, 2024 • 

Wille Faler

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November 2024

Old school architectures making a return, part 3: escaping the Hyperscalers

Nobody ever got fired for buying AWS. But maybe they should be?

Nov 26, 2024 • 

Wille Faler

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Old school architectures making a return, part 2: Backend rendered webapps

Separating backend and frontend is an evolutionary dead-end, or at least frequently, a complication.

Nov 18, 2024 • 

Wille Faler

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Old school architectures making a return, part 1: Monoliths

Over the last decade, microservices have dominated the software landscape, but could we see a retracement of their use? I think this is almost a…

Nov 12, 2024 • 

Wille Faler

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State of the Linux Desktop

As a long-time Mac user, I've asked myself the eternal question: is this the year of Linux on the desktop? Here is what I found out after a year of…

Nov 10, 2024 • 

Wille Faler

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