The AI skills gap
In 40+ interviews, senior engineers from major banks and consultancies showed strong backgrounds but little real AI fluency. No RAG, no agent frameworks. The gap isn't about skill, it's about exposure.
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Have you seen our new haircut?
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Never talk to strangers
Talking to strangers in 1930s Moscow was not a smart thing to do. Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz (chairman of the management committee of one of the
Attend our first workshop: Why remote companies are winning
What does a great workplace look like in terms of collaboration? How are communication and process affected by working remotely? Can remote teams really function
I don't trust this kid any further than I can throw him
Would you trust Ferris Bueller to work on your project? Probably not. But how could he earn your trust? When joining a new project, there
I need a vacation: madewithlove company retreat 2019 (Italy)
Every year, team madewithlove goes on a secret mission. We spend a week together in a cool location during our company retreat. This year was
Releasing with confidence
Still scared to ship to production on Friday afternoon? Even after reading our previous post on maturing your release process? Here’s some practical advice
How to be an asshole when testing bugs
Ugh… I can’t believe it! How did he find that? This is my goal when I test for bugs. I want to find the
Typed property must not be accessed before initialization
PHP7.4 introduced this cool new feature called “typed properties” which add the existing PHP type system to class properties. This means that you can
Getter, Setter, Never?
What if I told you Morpheus never said “What if I told you?” I know you saw that meme a thousand times but have you
Gatsby and the new era of site generators
Why Gatsby? One of the greatest aspects of modern web development is how modular and composable everything has become. Building an application these days has
Stop managing your releases before you start managing your releases
It’s Friday afternoon. Do you deploy to production? A lot of teams are afraid to push their code to production before the weekend because
Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work
It’s safe to say that programming, and everything around it, evolved tremendously since the Internet’s beginnings. If you’ve ever created a Frontpage
Dinner and a show
Because we are constantly learning, madewithlove hosts CTO dinners as a way of facilitating conversations between CTOs of Belgium. The role of a CTO is
Experimenting with asynchronous planning
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy In a continued push for asynchronous work, we attempted to tackle one of the last major
A nice app on Elm street
If you’ve ever worked with Redux – in the context of a React application or not – you may have heard numerous times that it was
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