Kevin Smith

A memo I sent to the AxisCare product development team earlier this week: It’s now abundantly clear that we’re living through a step change in software development thanks to AI.

A worthwhile thought experiment: If AI can one day quickly and reliably write new code and edit existing code to produce the intended new behavior of the software system, such that the system itself effectively becomes a black box… there’s a whole slew of…

…if you bring value to a business by thinking critically, uncovering key customer struggles, and creating things to give it major leverage in the marketplace.

You can’t.

You’re probably here because you’ve asked a Bitcoiner that very question.

High-quality software is both valuable to the business now and easy to change later.

There’s something that’s been on my mind a lot lately: the significance of meaningful boundaries.

Video of my talk at EEConf 2018 in Nashville.

While working on a project recently, I finally got so frustrated with the awkward way validation errors are typically handled that I was determined to figure out a solution.

I’m often accused of being particularly fussy with regards to language and word choice, especially in technical discussions.

Video of my talk at EEConf 2017 in Denver.

If you want to make a difference in software, get better at modernizing legacy applications.

That’s an off-the-cuff comment I made during a presentation at the Nashville PHP meetup last night, and one of the attendees messaged me later asking if I could expand on that thought.

One of my core responsibilities as a senior software engineer is mentoring the junior engineers and interns at work.

# The Problem One of the most common security threats in web applications is SQL injection.

Wow, my last post got way more attention than I expected, even making it all the way to the front page of Hacker News this past Saturday!

I’ve got a challenge for you.

I love this contrasting pair of quotes, perfectly capturing the mindset of great leaders.

According to psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the human nervous system can only process about 110 bits of information per second.

From Solitude and Leadership: We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the

If your company is like the typical digital agency or software shop, you’ve got deadlines slapped on every bit of work in the entire organization as a way to get your people to deliver work quickly.

In the world of design and development, your team’s getting a lot thrown at it.

For any brick-and-mortar business, it’s a major problem if your customers can’t find you.

My first foray into entrepreneurship was surprisingly successful.