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CS for a Nation: A conversation with Simon Peyton Jones about computer science education
Published: September 29, 2025 14:49
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis summer, GOTO live asked me to step in and interview one of their guests for their podcast. Simon Peyton Jones is the chair of Computing at School, the organization spearheading reform of England’s national computing curriculum…
What can we expect of LLMs as Software Engineers?
https://chelseatroy.com/2025/07/14/what-can-we-expect-of-llms-as-software-engineers/
Published: July 14, 2025 20:55
Reading Time: 31 minutesI got home about a month ago from a conference tour through Romania, Belgium, and the Netherlands. I gave a talk about LLMs in all three places, and then one more time once I got home to Chicago. My plan now is to retire the talk,…
How to survive the apocalypse: a conversation with Tim O’Reilly about Generative AI
Published: June 25, 2025 21:54
Reading Time: 19 minutesSunlight fire-hosed through my east facing window at 5:15 AM last Wednesday. I have learned, in my eleven Chicago years, to welcome this part of summer. I scraped up a pair of shorts, tromped downstairs, and perched on the edge of…
The Homework is the Cheat Code: GenAI Policy in my Computer Science Graduate Classroom
Published: May 14, 2025 19:23
Reading Time: 26 minutesI started teaching at the University of Chicago six years ago. Back then, in the spring of 2019, students had not undergone the trauma of a centennial pandemic. They had so far learned in person, and I could cue my expectations…
Sharpen your technical leadership skills: proceeds to charity through EOY
Published: December 10, 2024 18:31
Reading Time: 3 minutesHi folks! I want to start doing an end-of-year giving tradition on my workshop website, so I’ve come up with a plan. If you use the code giving-2024 in the shop between today and December 31, you’ll get 10% off your purchase, and…
What layoffs teach us about technical leadership
https://chelseatroy.com/2024/10/31/what-layoffs-teach-us-about-technical-leadership/
Published: October 31, 2024 20:25
Reading Time: 14 minutes In March I published a piece called How do we evaluate people for their technical leadership? It demonstrates (I hope) why production line metrics shouldn’t be copied and pasted onto knowledge work. Then, in a cunning move I…
How to flub (and not flub) group decision-making on technical teams
Published: October 22, 2024 15:58
Reading Time: 23 minutes This post from a week ago talked about three decision-making traps that technical leaders fall into like flies into a honey jar: These traps wreak havoc in individual decision making. So, naturally, we’ve ported the assumptions…
Decision-Making Pitfalls for Technical Leaders
https://chelseatroy.com/2024/10/16/decision-making-pitfalls-for-technical-leaders/
Published: October 16, 2024 16:12
Reading Time: 15 minutes Tech’s favorite party trick is promoting programmers into leadership roles with zero coaching on how to make the transition, or even a briefing on what the role entails. The programmer accepts the promotion because…I mean, of…
Does AI benefit the world?
https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/
Published: August 28, 2024 17:00
Reading Time: 20 minutes “Let’s start with cars.” My students break out into groups of four, each quartet gathered around a collection of pink and green post-it notes. For the first few minutes, the room remains quiet while each student jots down a…
Programmers, Identity Crises, and Moral Panic
https://chelseatroy.com/2024/07/03/programmers-identity-crises-and-moral-panic/
Published: July 3, 2024 02:36
Reading Time: 12 minutes In December of 2021, the itinerant sci-fi and fantasy gathering Worldcon came under scrutiny for accepting a sponsorship from an American defense company. Critics remarked that the conference had clearly lost its way. Its guests…