Tag: Engineering

  • State of AI code assist tools and what I’d recommend in 2025 August

    State of AI code assist tools and what I’d recommend in 2025 August

    Listed roughly (not exactly) in order from seeming to target least-tech-familiar to most-tech-familiar audiences: No / low-code: Replit and Lovable Good for someone who doesn’t/can’t code at all yet to prototype something pretty impressively considering lack of coding experience. Wouldn’t recommend it for anything you plan on using in production.  Haven’t touched them myself, only…

  • How Systems Engineering differs from IT Systems Administration

    I sometimes get asked about my Masters in Systems Engineering, usually by people who expect it to be more like network administration or similar IT work. I mean, I certainly could be doing IT; it’s how I paid for my undergrad. But compared to the rest of my career experience, that was long enough ago on simpler…