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Sophie Alpert

Sophie Alpert on software design and engineering practice — services, materialised views, and where AI agents fall short.

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There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
June 25th, 2026•sophiebits.com
Deconstructing “services”
December 16th, 2025•sophiebits.com
I don’t want AI agents controlling my laptop
September 9th, 2025•sophiebits.com
Materialized views are obviously useful
August 22nd, 2025•sophiebits.com
TODOs aren’t for doing
July 21st, 2025•sophiebits.com
Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart
October 30th, 2024•sophiebits.com
Hire me to empower and upskill your eng team
June 12th, 2023•sophiebits.com
How React Changed the Web Forever: A Documentary
February 10th, 2023•sophiebits.com
Fast and maintainable patterns for fetching from a database
January 1st, 2020•sophiebits.com
React Conf: “Building a Custom React Renderer”
October 24th, 2019•sophiebits.com
Why review code?
December 25th, 2018•sophiebits.com
Metrics by proxy
December 4th, 2018•sophiebits.com
Yak shaving and fixing
December 3rd, 2018•sophiebits.com
Voice
December 3rd, 2018•sophiebits.com
React Conf: “React Today and Tomorrow”
October 29th, 2018•sophiebits.com
Why we host conference talk dry runs
October 19th, 2018•sophiebits.com
React Podcast: Inside React
May 29th, 2018•sophiebits.com
Type errors with inference need stacks
May 21st, 2018•sophiebits.com
Observable programming
February 22nd, 2018•sophiebits.com
React 16: an API-compatible rewrite
September 26th, 2017•sophiebits.com