HeyJaredFundamentals of Software Engineering
Programmer, coder, developer—there are any number of titles used to describe people who create software, but what does it mean to be a software engineer?
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E11 - What Is Software Architecture (opens the original)
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In this episode of Fundamentals of Software Engineering , Nate and I dig into the question the whole show is named after and the one our book only had a single chapter for: what software architecture actually is. We start where Neal Ford and Mark Richards start, with architecture as the things you cannot Google, and we work out why that definition holds up. By the time a decision reaches an architect, the easy answers are gone. Nobody escalates a variable name. What gets escalated is whether thi
E10 - Context Engineering Is Just Data Fundamentals in Disguise (opens the original)
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In this episode of Fundamentals of Software Engineering , Nate and I dig into context engineering , the phrase that has quietly replaced prompt engineering as the term on everyone's 2026 bingo card. Our core argument is simple. Context engineering is not a shiny new AI skill, it is a data fundamental you probably already know, just wearing a new name. Prompt engineering is about how you ask. Context engineering is about what the model actually knows when you ask. We frame it as a desk and a fili
E09 - Effective Remote Work Tips and Why AI Doom Trolling Is a Choice (opens the original)
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In this episode of Fundamentals of Software Engineering , Nate and I dig into the reality of working remotely and push back on a viral clip claiming that remote work is nothing more than white collar fraud . Drawing on nearly a decade of remote experience, we unpack why that argument glosses over the distractions of the office , the daily stress of the commute , and the return to office mandates pushed by leaders who rarely make that commute themselves. We also get honest about the parts that ar
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