Learning paths, career milestones and personal growth in software engineering.
Open source maintainers are drowning in pull requests and reports written by AI. This post gives the numbers I could read at the source, a four-week plan for beginners, a git walkthrough I really ran, a pull request template with an AI disclosure line and a self-check list.
Learning with AI can be faster, but one study found the group that handed everything to the AI understood less. This article summarizes the evidence, states what is not known, and gives a four-week plan with AI-on and AI-off sessions and a self-test every Friday.
Some companies now allow AI in coding interviews, some still ban it, and there is no shared standard. This article gives a two-week plan for anyone about to interview: ask for the rules, practice fundamentals without AI, practice reading and debugging, practice working with AI in a disciplined way, and prepare to answer questions about AI.
Entry-level hiring is tougher and AI writes much simple code. This article gives a 12-month plan in four quarters, how to use AI to learn instead of being learned for, weekly habits and a way to check your own progress.