Matt Blodgett

Software is about people, not code.

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Calibrating Your Care

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I've been a subscriber to the r/ExperiencedDevs subreddit for a few months, and I've noticed a common pattern. Someone will post a ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Don't Let an LLM Write Your Unit Tests

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Writing unit tests is one of those tasks that software engineers often see as tedious. In fact, I've heard from fellow engineers that un...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Copilot Is Outsourcing 2.0

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Decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. (Or, in this context, remain employed.) - Will Larson, " Care...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Engineering-led Research Tickets

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One of my optimistic beliefs about software engineers is that we're full of good ideas about how things around us could be improved. We...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Software Engineer Career Levels at Companies You've Heard Of

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I found a site called Progression.fyi that curates a list of "career frameworks," or in other words, the level-progression system...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Heisenberg Effect in Software

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One of the greatest services that software engineers provide is that we help people understand their own thought processes. We're transc...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Are You a Stable or Volatile?

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I've written before on this blog about the different personality traits of software engineers, and how different traits balance each ot...
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