HeyJaredBlue Blazes
Just like obstacles blocking a hiking trail, barriers in the path to a successful software project can be frustrating. When you encounter one, it helps to take a trail marked with blue blazes to go around the problem, get back on course, and keep moving forward.
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Blue Blazes S04E08: Spec Kit – featuring Eric Boyd (opens the original)
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In this episode, host Jonathan “J.” Tower sat down with Eric Boyd, founder and CEO of responsiveX and a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, to talk about GitHub’s Spec Kit. Eric argues that a coding agent is a next-token predictor, so every blank you leave in your intent gets filled with whatever is most popular. Spec Kit is an answer to that, and he walks us through how to use it. If you’ve been vibe coding and want a process you can repeat, this episode is for you. Guest Bio: Eric Boyd is the
Blue Blazes S04E07: Coding After AI – featuring Jeffrey Palermo (opens the original)
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In this episode, host Jonathan "J." Tower sat down with Jeffrey Palermo, CTO and Chairman at Clear Measure, to talk about what changes in software development once AI writes much of the code, and what doesn't. Jeffrey argues this shift is different in kind from the web, agile, mobile, and cloud transitions that came before it, because it changes how we interact with a computer rather than just how we write code. He's equally direct about the limits. A language model is very good at answering que
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