#209 The ultimate dev skill is Integration Testing – Interview with Internet of Bugs

Today Quincy Larson interviews Carl Brown, who runs the Internet of Bugs YouTube channel and has worked as a dev at Amazon, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and startups for over 37 years.

We talk about:

- The hype versus the utility in LLMs and agent code generation tools

- Why you might want to target developer jobs at smaller companies, and how these differ from "big tech"

- How everyone will face agism eventually. Carl argues that a consulting career is a great escape hatch.

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Links from our discussion:

- My interview with Stack Overflow founder Joel Spolsky whom we discuss: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/trello-stack-overflow-founder-joel-spolsky-podcast-interview/

- Quincy's free book "How to learn to code and get a developer job": https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-book/

Ted Chiang "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" article Carl mentions:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web