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22 Chapters, One Question: Barry Solaiman on What the World’s Legal Systems Get Right and Wrong About AI in Healthcare

Q1. You and your co-editor I. Glenn Cohen brought together a genuinely international collection of legal experts spanning Asia, Europe, and the US, examining both major religious and secular ethical traditions alongside legal frameworks....

Inside the Mind of a MySQL Rockstar: Matthias Crauwels on Community, Culture, and Open Source First

Q1. You moved from managing databases at a Belgian university to becoming a dedicated MySQL DBA, then to consulting at Pythian, and now to supporting large enterprise customers running MySQL at scale at PlanetScale....

Research report:  Overcoming the limitations of coding agents in complex software systems 

Strategies for engineering leaders in financial services, silicon design, networking, and other mission-critical industries INTRODUCTION THE MODERN ERA OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING The volume of code created is growing at an unprecedented rate. But we all know...

The Airplane Doesn’t Flap Its Wings: Maharaj Mukherjee on Redefining Intelligence for the Age of AI

Q1. You and Dr. Monideepa Roy argue for a mechanism-agnostic definition of intelligence — one based not on how a system is built, but on what it demonstrably does: perceive, predict, learn, adapt, collaborate, and...

Everyone Has Access to a Personal Jarvis: Kartik Paramasivam on Agentic Engineering, GPU Procurement, and What Actually Breaks at Scale

Q1.  Kartik, you have built massive data infrastructures at both LinkedIn and Pinterest. As we transition from traditional software engineering to “Agentic Engineering,” how do the core competencies of a top-tier engineer change when...