AI and Creativity
Creativity means making something new, not copying what exists already.
Commentary
Independent perspectives on the state of business and technology.
Pair Programming with AI
An Agent of Change
A look into the Covid-19 pandemic's influence on how we think, spend, and manage our businesses.
The Least Liked Programming Languages
What are some of the least liked/most dreaded programming languages? Why are they dreaded, and are they being evaluated fairly?
Power, Harms, and Data
Data is often biased. But that isn’t the real issue. Why is it biased? How do we build teams that are sensitive to that bias?
AI, Protests, and Justice
Society-Centered Design
How socially centered design differs from individualistic design
COVID-19 and Complex Systems
Decision-Making in a Time of Crisis
A Bad Outcome Doesn't Mean a Bad Decision
Machine Learning and the Production Gap
The Business of Open Source
How do you build a business around open source when you’re competing with AWS and the like? Chef’s answer: double down on Open Source.
On COBOL
Every time the cry for COBOL programmers has gone up, we’ve muddled through; this time, we should do something better.
Governance and Discovery
Remembering Freeman Dyson
Treasured moments with a genius we will all miss.
The death of Agile?
In this edition of the Radar column, we examine the big picture around Agile, and look at what it means and what it doesn't.
AI meets operations
In this edition of the Radar column, we explore questions and challenges facing ops teams as they attempt to assimilate AI.
Where programming languages are headed in 2020
Experts discuss what's in store for popular and growing programming languages.
9 additional books for the Next Economy
An expanded economy-related reading list for the year ahead.