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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Tech Employer, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana – SEP has been named Exceptional Employer by TechPoint at the 26th annual Mira Awards. This award recognizes companies that are developing talent through skills-based hiring…
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Navigating AI + Team Effectiveness with Llewellyn Falco: Highlights from SEPTalks

We hosted a special edition of SEPTalks — “AI, Team Effectiveness, and the Future of Software Development: A Fireside Chat with Llewellyn Falco”. Llewellyn—creator of ApprovalTests and co‐author of the Mob Programming Guidebook—flew in from the West Coast to spend two weeks working alongside our engineering teams. In addition to leading this public fireside chat, […]
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SEP Welcomes Marty Draper

SEP Appoints Marty Draper as Vice President of IT, Security, and Compliance

WESTFIELD, IN, June 4, 2025 – SEP, a leading software product design and development firm, announces the appointment of Marty Draper as Vice President of IT, Security, and Compliance. This newly created role highlights SEP’s commitment to strengthening its foundation in technological advancement, data security, and regulatory practices. The addition of Draper positions SEP to […]
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Basics of Retrieval Augmented Generative (RAG) Systems

Lately, we’ve been fielding a lot of interest in custom Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. And honestly, it’s easy to see why. RAG systems are incredibly flexible tools for injecting up-to-date, domain-specific knowledge into AI responses for answering questions, generating content, analyzing internal data, or any other task that’s primarily completed by producing an artifact. […]
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Intentional AI: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere these days: headlines, investor decks, your last team meeting, and dinner conversations. Just because AI is hot doesn’t mean it’s well understood. Too often, people reach for AI like it’s duct tape: a fix-all solution for any digital dilemma. But like duct tape, AI has its limits. Some problems need glue, […]
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SEP Recognized as Top Workplace in Central Indiana for 2025

Westfield, IN – May 12, 2025 – SEP, a top software development firm based in Westfield, Indiana, has once again been awarded the first-place honor in Central Indiana’s Top Workplaces. This year, SEP captured the top spot in the Midsize Companies category based exclusively on employee feedback collected through a third-party. The anonymous survey is […]
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How AI, Design, and Creativity Landed Me 2 Weeks of ClusterTruck Lunches

Some contests are worth more than the prize, and this was one of them. Indy Design Week recently hosted a poster competition to help ClusterTruck revamp their promotional flyers for Dine to Donate events. The prize? Two weeks of free ClusterTruck lunches. The challenge? Taking a bland Illustrator template and transforming it into a design […]
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Vibe Coding Is the Purest Form of Agile (And That’s the Problem)

Vibe coding absolutely nails the values of Agile, and quietly violates the mechanisms that make Agile work. Vibe coding might be the purest form of Agile we’ve ever seen. No standups, no tickets, no backlog grooming, just chaos and bliss. It nails the Agile values: working software, responding to change, and individuals over process. The […]
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Why Vibe Coding Fails – and How Signal Coding Fixes It

AI is an amplifier for whatever signal we humans provide. Garbage in, garbage out. Signal in, software out. – Robert Herbig, in the thing you’re currently reading If you haven’t heard of vibe coding, it’s an interesting concept: you prompt an AI agent to do all the coding and focus on fast iterations. Minimize time […]
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Beyond Compare: The Diff Tool I Refuse to Live Without

I love boosting productivity.  If you’re manually comparing files, squinting at Git diffs, or struggling to sync folders across servers, you’re wasting time and there’s a better way— it’s called Beyond Compare. I’ve been using this tool for over a decade, and I’ve paid for it with my own money. That’s how much I believe […]
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