Ryan Thor Donovan

Editor of Former Grubhub technical writer. Guy who doesn't really use Twitter.

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AI has promised to give developers a second brain—but is it actually harming their first brain? Ryan Donovan @RThorDonovan writes about the dangers of cognitive offloading, what AI users can do to keep their problem solving skills from atrophying, and how AI builders can create tools that help the human mind, not harm it.

https://t.co/VgVC6QMo6u

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Money is pouring into the AI industry, causing ripple effects across tech. But with disruptions for companies large and small, how does one run a software business? On the floor of HumanX, the answer was clear: real solutions are built on good data.

https://t.co/Q0WX2PbX5Y

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🎙️ @eiramaybe and @RThorDonovan sit down with Carol Lee, PhD, principal research scientist in the Developer Success Lab at @pluralsight, to chat about about her research into code review anxiety, how developers are coping, and the power of a workbook.

https://t.co/fVAD6VGlOf

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🎙️ Developer and software consultant Ben Borra joins the home team for a wide-ranging conversation about developer productivity, the value of positive feedback, the impact of code assistants on devs’ everyday work, and the challenges of system rewrites.

https://t.co/IcNFzQABEB

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It's our favorite time of year - our annual Developer Survey is here! From your preferred programming languages, the new tech you want to explore, and much, much more, we're calling all who code to weigh in.

Take the survey: https://t.co/rDvxVyeBxN

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@subnetmarco Thanks for sharing this, Marco. Great talking with you as always.

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@Stephen_Lynch @StackOverflow @benpopper Gets the credit for the first one, but I'll take my fake internet points for the second.

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The home team talks about the hacker who exposed a security vulnerability in AI-powered software, security risks of smart devices, and the programming language that features time travel.

https://t.co/S5qnFzPl3Y

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@StackOverflow @Spotify @omardelarosa

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@StackOverflow @benpopper Shoutout to @isaacdlyman for the idea that coding well with natural language is essentially the same thing as coding.

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🎙️@detkin, founder and CEO of @sleuth_io, joins @RThorDonovan to talk all things engineering efficiency, DORA metrics, continuous delivery, and how his psychology degree has proven useful in his work as an engineering manager and startup founder.

https://t.co/g28nYDg8Kh

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#sponsored On this episode sponsored by @Logitech, we chat with composer and live coder @tiemposdelruido about her journey from studying music to writing software and the comma that silenced her show for nine tense minutes. https://t.co/ytD9fiEjFd

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In our Developer Survey this year, new programming language Zig landed one of the top three most admired scores. Our own @RThorDonovan sits down with @croloris, VP of Community at the Zig Foundation, to discuss its appeal and benefits.

https://t.co/2tFRjPS5WD

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@begusgasper @StackOverflow @benpopper @eiramaybe Our pleasure! Loved chatting about your work. It took all I had to not go more into the language part of the work.

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The book that critics rave "I got this in the mail," and "The press release copy was nice."

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Learning the wrong lesson from things is sort of my superpower.

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On our latest episode, @benpopper and @RThorDonovan chat with Vladyslav Ukis, Head of R&D at @SiemensHealth, the relationship between DevOps and site reliability engineering and his thoughts on how GenAI will impact the SRE field.

https://t.co/krJKgA9N2m

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@SableSys @doctorow @stephen_smith @TwitterSupport Yes, @elonmusk shadow-banned @doctorow, likely because he nailed it with his Enshittification piece.
https://t.co/ncqV5bQDC6

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On this episode, @benpopper and @RThorDonovan sit down with pioneering software developer Jim Highsmith to chat about engineering for NASA's Apollo Program and his role as one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.

https://t.co/8QxU1rRkfg

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Someone on Hacker News described the apps built off of generative AI that uses training data from thousands of real people as "HUMANCENTiPAD" and I'm dying.

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@Guffy_Johnson @0xgaut Or maybe a riot: https://t.co/2xhQ3Gr7ih