Field Notes
Notes from the trail.
Essays on the craft as it’s practiced now — written by the people who teach it, tested on the cohorts who live it.
- #verification#workflow
Plausible wrongness: the failure mode of the AI era
AI-generated code doesn’t fail loudly. It fails convincingly. Verification discipline — not prompting skill — is what separates seniors from spectators.
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- #ai-native#craft
The craft moved up a level. Here’s the map.
What “AI-native software engineering” actually means in practice — and what stays human when machines write most of the code.
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- #academy#announcement
Why we killed our own bootcamp
UpskillCamp ran a successful 12-week full-stack bootcamp. Then we asked whether what we taught was still the job — and rebuilt the academy around the honest answer.
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Beyond reading
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