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“If you don’t get the requirements right, it doesn’t matter how well you execute the rest of the project.”—Karl Wiegers, Ten Cosmic Truths About Software Requirements Every word Ka…

Walking in wooded areas twice daily allowed me to get my bipolar type 2 under control. Much better and quicker than meds or therapy.

If it is accurate and valuable, I don't care who wrote it.

I use both Grammarly and ChatGPT multiple times every day. They are different tools. Grammarly proofreads and edits existing text. ChatGPT creates text from a prompt. Grammarly oft…

AI will reshape software engineering, but it won’t eliminate it. The boring stuff, such as coding, routine QA, and documentation, is bounded and pattern-heavy, so AI will eat that …

Although there is lots of hype, vibe-coding isn't a marketing gimmick—it's just continuing the trend we've always followed: moving to higher levels of abstraction. Like going from …

“They can’t buy from you until they are in your store.” Unless you have a long list of eager clients, an initial meeting is about selling your expertise rather than assessing the c…

FRET was developed by the NASA Ames Research Center to specify safety-critical applications whose failure could result in loss of life, significant property damage, or environmenta…