About this episode
Carl and Richard discuss the Use What Works movement with Dylan Beattie, emphasizing the benefits of using well-maintained open-source projects.
Use What Works! Carl and Richard talk to Dylan Beattie about the Use What Works movement, encouraging developers to use well-maintained open-source projects available today rather than rolling their own. Dylan explains how folks go down a path of believing a library is simple until they learn enough to realize that every bit of software is more complicated than they realize. And the less code you own, the happier and more productive you are. Adding AI to the mix only makes it clearer: you need some stability in development. If you're changing every layer of code, you'll spend even more time and frustration chasing problems. Make getting results easier - use what works!
People in this episode
Host: Carl Franklin
Guest: Dylan Beattie
Topics covered
- open-source software
- development practices
- software complexity
- AI in development
- productivity
Keywords
- Use What Works
- open-source
- software development
- AI
- productivity
- software complexity
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Use What Works, open-source
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