Doug Slater

@slater.dev

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Software Engineering Leader and Mentor. Jesus follower.

A picture of Petunia, from the 1950s book. She is poring over the contents of the book xUnit Test Patterns.
A 2D chart. Horizontal axis label is risk, vertical axis label is rigor. A line goes up and to the right. Above the line, it says 'Too much rigor.' Below the line, it says, 'Too little rigor.'
Two columns of text. The left column has the heading SPEC and a long description of a regular expression that specifies a valid email address. The right column has the heading CODE and has the regular expression. The point is that sufficiently detailed spec is just code.
Table showing you should use LLMs for design, but not for implementation, and TBD for tests
A photo of a puzzle piece fitting into its place
The collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge in Maryland after a container ship collided with it
A chart showing failure rates over time for hardware and software. Software looks very different than hardware.
Picture of the shoes the men wore in the marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics
A picture of concentric circles showing that there are multiple forms of authority: positional authority is distinct from earned authority. Within earned authority, there is relational authority.
Diagram showing that market forces push prices and quality down, while licensure and standards push them up.
Venn diagrams showing that AI lets more people make software
A wizard conjuring a computer program. Generated by Dall-E