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A CTO once told me not to take people's Legos away. I ignored him, solved the team's problems myself, and got exactly what I optimised for: a sound plan and a team that couldn't stand me. In 2026, with agents doing the bricks, this is the lesson that matters.
Read more →One engineer, one AI, eight pull requests closing a multi-root-cause production incident. The same day, a look at a shiny greenfield rewrite candidate. The gap between what AI helps you fix and what a clean rewrite can't give you is the entire argument.
Read more →78,557 tech layoffs in the first three months of 2026. Nearly half blamed on AI. A new study says AI tools actually slow workers down. The real driver is overhiring and weak earnings. AI is the PR shield.
Read more →A German general's 1933 framework for categorizing officers maps perfectly to engineers using AI. The most dangerous quadrant - stupid and industrious - is exactly what AI amplifies.
Read more →Independent studies consistently show AI coding tools deliver modest gains at best. The real story is worse: developers are thinking less, learning less, and producing more debt.
Read more →The tool was rewritten five times. The discipline to use it wasn't rewritten once. A year of daily AI-assisted development, what it changed, and what it didn't.
Read more →ADHD, autism, and neurodivergence aren't bugs in the system. They're the reason the system exists. And the agentic age is about to prove it.
Read more →AI collapsed the cost of rebuilding. Corporate decision-makers haven't caught up. The reasoning behind 'but we already built it' no longer holds.
Read more →AI tools that democratize code creation are DDoSing the review layer. Creation now runs at machine speed. Review remains human speed. The asymmetry is crushing maintainers.
Read more →Stanford data confirms experienced devs are safe. But if AI replaces the on-ramp, where do future seniors come from?
Read more →Andrej Karpathy built the neural networks inside coding assistants. He taught deep learning to a generation. He feels dramatically behind. If the experts are lost, what does that tell us?
Read more →The arguments about vibe coding and junior developers miss what software engineering was always about: shipping products, not typing code.
Read more →At around 30 employees, growing companies either mature or become toxic. Here's the playbook for organizational dysfunction - and why your engineering leaders keep leaving.
Read more →How modern tools transformed my experience as an introverted engineer and tech leader
Read more →What happens when you lose external validation and discover what actually matters: the work itself.
Read more →Why coding interviews optimized for 2010 fail to identify great engineers in 2025, and why orgs can't adapt fast enough.
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