As in many other areas (e.g. code, emails, PRs, blog posts), people have started using LLMs to generate slides for their conference talks (e.g., set of HTML pages as a talk).On the one hand, the slides look tidy, neat, and precise, with infographics, plots, dashboards, and so on. Nothing to complain about.On the other hand, they look, hm, like LLM generated web sites, like soulless, if I may...
For those who have recently (Summer 2026) gone through software engineering job interviews, have you noticed any changes in the interview process?Is it still the usual Leetcode, system design, behavioral and leadership questions, and maybe technology specific questions (e.g., Spring for Java devs, borrow checker details for Rust devs, etc.)?Or have you noticed something completely different...
Recently, we've gotten a few new local LLMs (Gemma 4, Qwen 3.6).I'm curious, what use cases do you have for local LLMs (beyond the obvious ones, like replacing Gemini, ChatGPT, or Claude for coding tasks due to privacy, cost, or other reasons)?If possible, please describe your setup (software, hardware, model, and use case) so people can replicate it.
Also, your idea of using different domain specific colors is interesting. It might be possible to express this via some kind of effect system. I'm not aware of any popular Rust libraries for that, but it could be worth borrowing some ideas from Scala libraries.
It would be interesting to hear what current tech skills have a steep learning curve but pay off a lot afterward.Some examples (not sure they're the best ones, but just to illustrate):1. Vim motions2. Rust3. Jujutsu (as an alternative to Git)4. Formal methods in software engineering (Alloy, TLA+)
I am not sure, is this custom Os.Root implementation good enough to relay on it? I see that it is based on openat, and validation of paths/symlinks. But should we expect CVEs, which will break this protection layer?
Many podcasts have shut down after COVID. On the other hand, there are new players in town. So, I'm wondering, what are you listening to these days?My current top is:1. https://www.youtube.com/@DeveloperVoices - general programming podcast (fp, rust, databases, gamedev)2. https://www.youtube.com/@SoftwareUnscripted - more focused on languages podcast3. https://www.youtube.com/@Waveform - tech...