“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.” — Alan Turing

a 1950 prediction from Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Writing from a perspective of prosperity - we, as a society, have reached a significant inflection point in history. For better or worse, AI has infiltrated nearly every aspect of our lives.

While I’d love to wax poetic on the moral, ethical and financial impacts of AI - each which should be discussed - as part of our foundation (!) we’re going to acknowledge three things:

1. AI is here and is shows no signs slowing down

2. AI has fundamentally changed software engineering

3. AI acts as mirror — engineering fundamentals matter even more

Foundations of Engineering has one goal:

Make all of us better software engineers — myself included.

What should I expect?

To start, Foundations is going to be organized into 3 types of articles:

• Foundation - focused on the fundamentals - computer science, logic reasoning, system design, AI patterns, Agentic

• Tutorial - practical applications of concepts and ideas discussed in Foundation articles

• Editorial - trending topics, news, plugins and tools often with opinions

Our goal is *at least* one type of article per month, posted to Substack, social channels and our website but my hope is to grow that to once a week.

Sponsorships, partnerships and guest authors welcome!

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