@victoriadrake
Engineering director and principal software engineer.
Former digital nomad (54 cities, 11 countries) and principal software engineer at a big org. No stranger to startups. I write about technology, high-output development teams, and living in the age of AI.
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Aug 27, 2024 · 4 min read · No need to print out stacks of code when conversational AI can summarize it for you. (Photo is Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who played a crucial role in developing the software for the Apollo space program at NASA, standing next to a tower...
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Aug 24, 2024 · 4 min read · The more you advance towards leadership in your tech career, the less technical your focus becomes. The most helpful things you can do become less about any particular technological problem and more about how to enable your leaders and team members t...
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Aug 23, 2024 · 13 min read · In the viral essay The Decade Ahead, Leopold Aschenbrenner predicts that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will be a reality in only a few years. But what exactly is AGI, and how does it differ from the AI we have today? AGI refers to a type of a...
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Jan 6, 2021 · 5 min read · As a Director of Engineering, I’m a software developer who hires and leads other software developers. It’s not surprising then that I get asked this question a lot, in various forms: How do I become a software developer? What language or framework s...
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Dec 21, 2020 · 4 min read · In this article, I'll discuss the secret to never forgetting how your project works, in three steps. If you’ve ever half-written a software project before taking a few days off, this is the article you’ll discover you needed when you reopen that IDE....
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