The Typing Was the Safety Harness
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Typing code was doing load-bearing QA work nobody invoiced for. Agents removed the slowness, and now the work has to live somewhere on purpose.
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An Intro To Career Frameworks
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4 min readLearn the basics of career frameworks for tech teams, from startups to scaling companies. Discover how to create clear growth paths and adapt frameworks as your organization evolves.
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How to Get Your Work Recognized — 6 Strategies
Updated:14 min readExplore strategies to enhance your software engineering career, focusing not just on technical skills but also on recognition, personal branding, and visibility.
The top 11 technical interview myths
Updated:8 min readThese myths work against a good interview experience and the candidates’ chances to get hired, so I’d like to call them out and refute them.
Verification Debt Is Your Next Headache
Updated:5 min readVerification debt is accumulating quietly in AI-assisted codebases. What engineering leaders need to watch for.
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Productivity Is Not Speed
9 min readA fast engineering team is not automatically a productive one. The real test is whether the work changes anything that matters.
Read articleYour Career Framework Can't Run Your Interviews
16 min readCareer frameworks describe outcomes, not behaviors; interviewers collect impressions, not evidence. Here's how to fix both.
Read articleNo, AI didn't break PRs
Updated:8 min readAI didn't break pull requests; it exposed the review queues, slow integration, and weak collaboration habits engineering teams already had.
Read articleEngineering Burnout Has Five Faces, and Your Career Ladder Walks You Through All of Them
Updated:21 min readBurnout has a different shape at every rung of the engineering ladder, and promotion doesn't cure it: it just trades one variant for another.
Read articleThe Senior Engineer Crisis Isn't Coming. It's Already Here.
Updated:15 min readAI is cutting junior hiring. But the engineers that won't exist in 10 years are being decided right now. Here's what I think actually happens next.
Read articleAI Is an Amplifier. What Are You Amplifying?
Updated:9 min readAI doesn't care about quality. It accelerates whatever direction your team was already heading. Here's what engineering leaders need to change.
Read articleVerification Debt Is Your Next Headache
Updated:5 min readVerification debt is accumulating quietly in AI-assisted codebases. What engineering leaders need to watch for.
Read articleThere Is No Standard EM Role
Updated:4 min readThere is no standard Engineering Manager role. The job is defined by your team's biggest bottleneck - and it shifts constantly. Here's what that actually looks like.
Read articleThe Work Moved: What the AI Coding Debate Actually Agrees On
Updated:11 min readAI agents generate 98% more PRs but reviews take 91% longer. The work didn't disappear — it moved. A synthesis of eight perspectives on where it actually went.
Read articleDeveloper Flow
Updated:6 min readLearn the science behind developer flow states and implement practical strategies to increase your engineering team's focus, productivity, and satisfaction.
Read article56 Laws of Software Engineering
Updated:6 min readAn overview of the recurring laws and constraints that shape software engineering, from teams and estimation to architecture, testing, and performance.
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