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Yash Batra

Yash Batra

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1d ago

Being a Good Developer Is No Longer About How Much Code You Can Write

For a long time, software engineering rewarded people who could write a lot of code quickly. The ability to learn a programming language…

Being a Good Developer Is No Longer About How Much Code You Can Write

Yash Batra

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2d ago

The Faster We Generate Code, the More Expensive Bad Decisions Become

AI has changed one of the oldest economics of software engineering: the cost of producing code is falling rapidly. A developer can describe…

The Faster We Generate Code, the More Expensive Bad Decisions Become

Yash Batra

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3d ago

We’re Optimizing for Code Generation While Ignoring the Cost of Software Ownership

The software industry has spent the last few years obsessing over one question: how quickly can we produce code?

We’re Optimizing for Code Generation While Ignoring the Cost of Software Ownership

Yash Batra

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4d ago

If AI Can Write Code, Why Do We Still Need Senior Engineers?

AI can now write a REST API, generate a database schema, create tests, refactor a service, and explain unfamiliar code in seconds.

If AI Can Write Code, Why Do We Still Need Senior Engineers?

Yash Batra

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5d ago

The Cost of Writing Code Is Approaching Zero. What Becomes Valuable Now?

For decades, software engineering was built around a simple constraint: writing code took time.

The Cost of Writing Code Is Approaching Zero. What Becomes Valuable Now?

Yash Batra

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5d ago

AI Made Developers Faster. Why Are Engineering Teams Not Getting More Done?

There is a strange contradiction happening in software engineering.

AI Made Developers Faster. Why Are Engineering Teams Not Getting More Done?

Yash Batra

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5d ago

AI Can Generate 1,000 Lines of Code in Seconds. Who’s Going to Maintain Them?

There is something almost magical about watching an AI coding assistant generate hundreds of lines of code in a few seconds.

AI Can Generate 1,000 Lines of Code in Seconds. Who’s Going to Maintain Them?

Yash Batra

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Oct 23

A Pizza Slice Can Teach You About the Pythagorean Theorem

The Mathematics Hidden in Your Favourite Pizza

A Pizza Slice Can Teach You About the Pythagorean Theorem

Yash Batra

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Oct 22

What a Deck of Cards Can Teach You About Combinatorics

A standard deck of playing cards looks ordinary. It contains 52 cards divided into four suits, with 13 cards in each suit. You can shuffle…

What a Deck of Cards Can Teach You About Combinatorics

Yash Batra

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Oct 21

The Fastest Way to Fix a Slow API Is Sometimes to Delete a Microservice

We spent weeks optimizing an API that was slow for a surprisingly simple reason. Every request had to travel through four different…

The Fastest Way to Fix a Slow API Is Sometimes to Delete a Microservice

Yash Batra

Yash Batra

2 Million+ views on Medium✅ I'm a software developer and I write. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash-batra-b5911b165/ Email: yashbatra11111@gmail.com

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