224. Books to Read and Gift (2024 EoY Edition)

Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended

It is very easy to be disruptive, but being a disruptor is enormously difficult technically and emotionally

We have decades of experience trying to automate processes. My biggest lesson is that automation is not about the easy and known flow, but about exception handling.

The use of AI is causing some in universities to freak out. I would worry more about NOT using AI, if history is any indication.

Have expectations for AI been getting too high? Not high enough? Thinking about how AI has evolved in past boom/bust cycles.