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Presentation: A Solopreneur's Journey: From Engineer to Puzzle Master and Storyteller
Joe Cassavaugh’s presentation, "A Solopreneur's Journey: From Engineer to Puzzle Master and Storyteller," offers invaluable insights for senior developers and leaders considering the solopreneur path. Learn how Cassavaugh scaled his indie franchise to $2M+ by leveraging Unity, optimizing content pipelines, and employing strategic refactoring. He shares key trade-offs between corporate engineering and independent ventures, detailing a remarkable journey of production scaling—10 games in 5 years—and accelerated velocity. For a deeper look at infrastructure shifts, explore our related article, "CERN Renounces RHEL in Favor of Debian."
GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests
General Motors has fundamentally redesigned its autonomous vehicle engineering workflows around AI agents, yielding remarkable results. By shifting focus from simply adding AI coding assistants to automating broader processes—analyzing data, triaging issues, and running experiments—GM engineers now spend just 15% of their time writing code. This strategic shift has tripled merged pull requests, accelerating feature releases and significantly reducing defects.
Article: The Hard-Stop Rule: From 3 HCM Monoliths to 120 Domain Microservices
For five years, a payroll and HR software team achieved a remarkable transformation: dismantling three monolithic systems into over 120 domain microservices—all without a dedicated migration budget. This pull-based approach, detailed in Prashanth Pasham’s article "The Hard-Stop Rule," prioritized building new features as independent services, sidestepping legacy modifications. Discover the tools, strategies, and challenges encountered during this ambitious rebuild, and learn how costs were effectively managed. For further insight into AI's evolving role, explore "Microsoft launches AI cybersecurity model," also available on our site.