What Hillel Wayne thinks about developer tools

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Writer and consultant on formal methods, testing and software correctness, author of Logic for Programmers and Practical TLA+. He ran the Crossover Project, interviewing seventeen people who worked as traditional engineers before becoming software developers, to settle by evidence whether software engineering is engineering.

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1. 29 Jul 2026

   Our readingVersion control is the one thing every traditional engineer wishes their old field had.

   Their wordsYeah, I interviewed like 20 people on this. I think all 20 mentioned version control as the thing they wish they had in their old field.

   ↗Formal methods with Hillel Wayneyoutube.com 5th of 24 in this recording