tags: ai, teaching, software-engineering authors: dcbrown An Agent Template for Teaching Software Engineering Generative AI coding assistants are rapidly changing how software is developed in practice, and students are increasingly using these to...

In his classic book The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks introduces the surgical team metaphor where the head surgeon a chief programmer write the critical code while other developers take on supporting roles i.e., copilot, toolsmith, administrator, e...

POSSE Project Evaluator A few days ago, I reflected on my experiencehttps://code-world-no-blanket.github.io/blog/2026-06-10posse.html at the Professors' Open Source Software Experience POSSE workshop, a three-day event focused on integrating HFOSS ...

Software engineering education is rapidly evolving, and finding ways to effectively evaluate students' understanding and application of practical skills is critical. Traditional exams often fail assessing students' abilities to apply theoretical know...

In the software engineering classes I teach undergraduate and graduate I'm working to help students gain hands-on exposure to essential tools necessary for real-world software development. While languages, frameworks, and tools constantly change, the...

How Progress Ends: A Software Engineering Perspective I was recently invited to give a guest lecture for the course ASPT 6004: AI in History and Its Social and Environmental Implications through the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cult...

Bridging the Gap Between Research and OSS Communities Reflections from the 2025 OSS Community Leadership Summit I recently had the chance to attend the Community Leadership Summithttps://2025.allthingsopen.org/community-leadership-summit at All Th...