"The Sludge on the Wall."
"How Better Tools Can Make Things Worse."
Two essays by Bruce Tate on what AI is doing to engineering teams - right now, in Elixir shops like yours.
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Bruce Tate's engineering essay series.
Two pieces out now — the AI dividend, and why better tools can make things worse.
New essays weekly through June.
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Pointing an AI agent at your legacy codebase and asking it to rewrite is a leap of faith.
Surveyor maps the system, captures its actual behavior as runnable specs, then you rewrite with certainty.
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Most people experimenting with AI coding agents are searching for the “ultimate setup.”
But the pursuit of a universal setup is not always the best path.
Sometimes, to get better results, it is better to design specific workflows.
Learn how
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Surveyor from bitcrowd turns a codebase into a verifiable spec.
Same specs run against legacy and rewrite. Both green = done.
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Redesigning semi-well-aged Phoenix apps can be daunting, or plain sailing, depending on your strategies.
bitcrowd created a write-up of best practices. buff.ly/kR6U4ib
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With coding agents writing more of our code, where does developer value go?
Jorge Bejar from WyeWorks argues that it doesn't disappear, it moves from execution to judgment.
Al amplifies what's already there, for better or worse.
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