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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…
How do we build the future with AI?
https://chelseatroy.com/2024/06/23/how-do-we-build-the-future-with-ai/
Published: June 23, 2024 21:21
Reading Time: 35 minutes This April, I gave a talk at ETE 2024 called “The Tools We Still Need to Build with AI.” I think people expected me to list my predictions for profitable shovel investments in the AI gold rush. I even think it’s possible you…