Tomas Petricek: Cultures of Programming – the Human Side of Software | JetBrains Research Podcast

Join us as Thomas Petricek, a program and language researcher, discusses the diverse "cultures of programming," highlighting how a humanistic approach can foster better understanding and interaction with software, moving beyond mere automation.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Programming Cultures Overview

00:01:41 Thomas's Background 00:03:50 Current Research Focus

00:06:05 Code Poetry Explained

00:09:00 Critical Software Architecture

00:11:51 Cultures of Programming

00:17:27 Mathematical Culture

00:22:39 Hacker Culture

00:25:32 Tacit Hacker Knowledge

00:30:00 Tacit Knowledge Undervalued

00:38:43 Managerial Culture

00:40:20 Engineering Culture

00:44:48 Spec-Driven Development

00:51:48 Humanistic Culture

00:54:40 Programming Field Pluralism

00:56:48 Personal Cultural Sympathies

01:01:21 AI and Future Cultures

01:04:14 Lessons from History

01:06:17 Making Programming Easy

01:09:09 Future Research Directions

01:11:43 Take-Home Message

01:13:20 Advice for JetBrains

Mentions & Links:

• Tomas Petricek https://tomasp.net/
• "Cultures of Programming" book https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cultures-of-programming/075A2D1DE611EE47807A683147B21691
• Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) https://www.ppig.org/
• Code Poetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_poetry
• Whitespace Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)
• CompCert https://compcert.org/compcert-C.html -Smalltalk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
• On the Limits of Making Programming Easy https://tomasp.net/academic/papers/limits/