Coffee With Developers • Jun 24, 2026

Making Teaching Code Less Academic and More Market-Ready - Peter Ruppel

Peter Ruppel reveals AI shifted the software bottleneck from writing code to human judgment. Learn why the painful friction of learning syntax remains essential for secure engineering.

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