Today Quincy Larson interviews Zubin Pratap, a software engineer and manager from Melbourne, Australia. After nearly two decades working as a corporate lawyer, he taught himself programming using freeCodeCamp.org. Within two years, he landed a job as a software engineer at Google. We talk about: How tools are making programming easier, but other parts of […]
Daily Archives: January 10, 2026
Artificial intelligence is changing how we build software. Just a few years ago, writing code that could talk, decide, or use external data felt hard. Today, thanks to new tools, developers can build smart agents that read messages, reason about them, and call functions on their own. One such platform that makes this easy is […]
A few years back, choosing an AI model was simple. You pick the most capable one you can afford and move on. But today, that approach no longer works. Today, teams use AI across many parts of a system. Customer-facing features. Internal tooling. Research workflows. Automation and agents. Each workload brings different requirements. Cost behaves […]
Shopify powers more than a million online stores around the world. Many store features you see every day, such as discounts, bundles, and order fulfillment are built using apps. These apps are created by developers to extend Shopify and solve real problems for merchants. If you know JavaScript and basic web development, you already have […]
If you’re a developer, you’ll likely want to use AI to boost your productivity and help you save time on menial, repetitive tasks. And nearly every recruiter these days will expect you to understand how to work with AI tools effectively. But there’s no real manual for this – you figure it out by doing. […]