tl;dr: Charity doesn't believe so - metric can be gamed, preferring a combination of (1) impact focused, outcome-based management (2) team level health metrics (3) engineering ladder and regular lightweight reviews (4) managers who are well calibrated across the org. Teams should also use the 4 DORA metrics.
tl;dr: Study by NCSU & Microsoft suggests that whiteboarding interviews are deeply flawed. They create performance anxiety inhibiting coding ability, bias towards candidates who can afford to prepare and those the interviewee prefers.
tl;dr: "You get maybe four sentences to convince" readers your essay is worth their time. On top of that, you should continually "provide strong motivations for everything you want to talk about." Lots of tactical pointers here.
tl;dr: Ask if it's ok first - since there are scenarios it may be counterproductive. Think about when it's important, how to do it, and other guidance.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
tl;dr: "GPT-3 is quite impressive in some areas, and still clearly subhuman in others." Kevin shows the questions he asks OpenAI’s new GPT-3 language model, along with its answers.
tl;dr: Includes a video of Dan's presentation, the basic premise is that code that's free of duplication leads to software we can't understand. Violations of DRY are WET - “write every time”, “write everything twice”, etc...