Matt Asay
Contributor
Matt Asay runs developer relations at MongoDB. Previously. Asay was a Principal at Amazon Web Services and Head of Developer Ecosystem for Adobe. Prior to Adobe, Asay held a range of roles at open source companies: VP of business development, marketing, and community at MongoDB; VP of business development at real-time analytics company Nodeable (acquired by Appcelerator); VP of business development and interim CEO at mobile HTML5 start-up Strobe (acquired by Facebook); COO at Canonical, the Ubuntu Linux company; and head of the Americas at Alfresco, a content management startup. Asay is an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and holds a J.D. from Stanford, where he focused on open source and other IP licensing issues.
The AI singularity is here
The time to figure out how to use generative AI and large language models in your code is now.
If you want a career in AI, learn Python
Skills with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models are very much in demand across a variety of industries.
AI and the future of software development
Maybe you’re not ready to let AI write your code, but it’s quite useful for testing and analyzing code.
Docker’s bad week
Instead of focusing on the poorly communicated decision to sunset Free Teams, look at the company’s overall direction to focus on what developers want.
The problem with development speed
Instead of focusing on output, think about increasing testing and research and being willing to scrap projects that don't seem likely to succeed.
Companies can’t stop using open source
Even though open source can be more expensive than proprietary software, the time savings and ability to free up developers to innovate are worth it.
Embrace and extend Excel for AI data prep
Combining machine learning and Excel can get you the data transformation you need while data scientists are scarce.
AI still requires human expertise
AI generates a lot of answers and saves a lot of time, but it’s too often incomplete or untrustworthy.
Gatsby, Netlify, and the gravitational pull of general-purpose platforms
Developers want snazzy and innovative, but CIOs want stable and safe. The Gatsby acquisition shows an attempt to bridge those two desires.
Where the tech jobs are
The tech industry may be cutting jobs left and right, but every industry needs technologists, from farm equipment and healthcare to retail and financial services.
Google blew it with open source layoffs
The decision to cut people who built the foundation that supports Google’s open source and cloud successes seems incredibly shortsighted.