June 30, 2025
Debugging Mobile Navigation Bugs with AI Code Assistants: Continue vs Copilot vs Cursor
A follow-up to “Which Code Assistant Actually Helps Developers Grow?” This time, testing how AI assistants handle debugging existing code problems.
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I spent ten years teaching college English. Now I teach developers, search engines, and AI systems to understand each other.
Writing about developer experience, AI tooling, and the communities that make tech worth working in.
Currently Developer Experience Lead, AI Platform at Paper Compute
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June 27, 2025
Which Code Assistant Actually Helps Developers Grow?
Over the past year, we’ve had a ton of conversations at Virtual Coffee about AI. If you’ve opened up X or LinkedIn, you probably realize that people have very strong opinions about AI. At Virtual Coffee, we’re a pretty close-knit...
June 24, 2025
Comparing 5 AI Coding Assistants: Which One's Right for You?
A couple of days ago, I saw Jerome Hardaway’s LinkedIn post, and it really resonated with me. I like the idea of thinking of AI coding tools as “really great intern[s]. Fast, helpful, capable in the right hands – but...
June 23, 2025
Test Drive Before You Buy: Your Guide to AI Code Assistant Trials in 2025
In my last post, I talked about spending time this summer looking at different AI tools. I want to get hands-on, figure out what I want to integrate into my workflow. But before I spend time (and money) testing things...
June 10, 2025
Taking Time to Breathe: A New Chapter Begins
As of June 1st, I’m no longer with the Linux Foundation. While I’ll share more details about this transition in a future post, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what comes next.
May 29, 2025
Beyond Stars and Forks: Why Open Source Needs Better Collaboration Metrics
When we were working on the Intro to Open Source course, one of the biggest painpoints we noted with new contributors was the frustration they felt when their PRs weren’t merged in in what they felt was a reasonable amount...
May 19, 2025
Breaking Bottlenecks: How Organizations Build Systems of Balanced Reciprocity
In this third post of my series on giving and taking, we explore how to design systems that prevent burnout, distribute contributions, and transform individual reciprocity intelligence into organizational strength.
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