Kevin Stewart
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Dare Obasanjo
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“Why didn’t you ask Claude for help?”
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Barely Treading Water
Carolyn, my chief of staff, sat on the couch as I ran into my office. The Palo Alto building wasn't built for tech; it'd been adapted to support the use case ov
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/barely-treading-water/
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evil maid
2 days ago
they’re not “replacing workers with AI” they are doing a much older thing that is making the people who are left do all the work
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Read this thread. Lots of similarities to Egyptian expats.
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The Anatomy of an AI-Native Org - Ajey Gore
For thirty years we were glorified translators — business asked why, product defined what, engineering translated to how. AI just ate the translation step. The anatomy of the team that's left looks no...
https://ajeygore.in/content/the-anatomy-of-an-ai-native-org?utm_source=brevo
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Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend.
Somewhere between 'ask Claude for a quick opinion' and 'Claude is writing our Jira tickets,' we lost the plot. AI agents are brilliant implementers. They're also confidently wrong about every decision...
https://www.hollandtech.net/claude-is-not-your-architect/?utm_source=brevo
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How Garry Tan mistook an org chart in a trench coat for software engineering
Every technological era gets the vanity literature it deserves.
https://medium.com/@balajibal/how-garry-tan-mistook-an-org-chart-in-a-trench-coat-for-software-engineering-7859321e0e58
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High Agency and High Fidelity: A Field Guide
Let's talk about two types of high-performers
https://asyncfunk.substack.com/p/high-agency-and-high-fidelity-a-field?r=1yr60
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You can’t afford to lead agentic engineering from the sidelines
AI is changing the work faster than most operating models can keep up. Leaders need firsthand experience before they start redesigning the process.
https://blog.kilo.ai/p/you-cant-afford-to-lead-agentic-engineering
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The New Shape of Design
A year into being an AI-powered product designer
https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/the-new-shape-of-design-1a522a857992
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The Maintainer's Dilemma | spf13
Open source maintenance is breaking at scale. Can AI code review can help maintainers without breaking trust, judgment, or community.
https://spf13.com/p/the-maintainers-dilemma/
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The New Realities of EM Lyfe
Image credit: Joe Groove A fascinating thing is happening. EMs are saying it’s better to be an IC. ICs think being an EM is where it’s at. This is part of the AI shift. The industry see…
https://cate.blog/2026/05/19/the-new-realities-of-em-lyfe/
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Mekka Okereke
3 days ago
More Dem futility: More Dems are mad at Black men for saying things like "Don't put a million innocent Black men in jail" And "Don't shoot 2 Black men a day" And "Don't stop and frisk us hundreds of times in our lifetime" Than they are mad about the fact that these things happen.
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Mekka Okereke
3 days ago
More Dem futility: 1) Senator Biden got political air cover for his crime bills that put a million innocent Black people in jail, from Black congressman Clyburn.🤦🏿♂️ 2) President Biden also got a campaign boost from Clyburn.🤦🏿♂️ 3) GOP used the decrease in Black voters to eliminate Clyburn's district.🤷🏿♂️
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South Carolina House passes map to eliminate Clyburn’s district
The gerrymandered congressional map now heads to the state Senate, moving the GOP one step closer to ousting the Democratic titan ahead of the midterms.
https://www.ms.now/news/south-carolina-house-passes-map-to-eliminate-clyburns-district
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Mekka Okereke
3 days ago
Dem futility explained: 1) If there had been 1 million more Black voters in 2016, Trump could not have come close to winning 2) There were not 1 million Black voters, because senator Biden's policies had put 1 million innocent Black people in jail🤦🏿♂️ 3) 2026 Dems are still pushing "tough on crime"🤡
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Strictly 4 My Navigators
3 days ago
Rest easy, Rob Base 🥹💙🕊 Thank you & the late DJ E-Z Rock for giving us feel good music.....
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Dare Obasanjo
4 days ago
AI psychosis has created a short sighted thinking that’s gripped tech. You see it in skipping entry level hiring and treating workers poorly while signaling you’ll automate them out ASAP. Look at Google Search. Why create content if AI overviews kill click throughs? Who is thinking long term?
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The coming AI jobs-pocalypse
The story we tell ourselves about technology and jobs has almost always been wrong, at least in the short term.
https://katecarruthers.com/ai-jobs-future/?utm_source=brevo
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Bryan Liles
6 days ago
So, come to find out, it is possible to create a reparations program after all.
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The AI-Native Developer - ACM Queue
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807961
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IC work is the new career flex
The rise of the High-impact Individual Contributor (HI-C!)
https://www.elenaverna.com/p/ic-work-is-the-new-career-flex?utm_source=cross-post
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Getting More Strategic
Strategy – how to be strategic, and how to be seen as strategic – is one of my ongoing obsessions. Years ago, I read Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, and it’s guided my thinking ever s…
https://cate.blog/2025/09/23/getting-more-strategic/
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Demand for engineering managers is surging in the agentic coding era
The world’s software engineers have all been promoted in one fell swoop. Suddenly, with the rise of agentic coding, everyone’s now a manager. There’s just one difference.
https://leaddev.com/career-development/demand-for-engineering-managers-is-surging-in-the-agentic-coding-era?utm_source=ActiveCampaign
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Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye
Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.
https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap
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Stuck in the middle: Being an engineer & artist in the AI era | Annie Sexton | Offprint
I'm an AI skeptic, through and through. But I also voluntarily use AI nearly every day. So naturally, you might be asking: what the heck?
https://annies-brain.offprint.app/a/3ml6zdf5f5f23-stuck-in-the-middle-being-an-engineer-artist-in-the-ai-era
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The Valley of Calm
A collection of posts by Joe Magerramov
https://blog.joemag.dev/2026/05/the-valley-of-calm.html?m=1
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Dare Obasanjo
11 days ago
Social contracts in tech are breaking down. CEOs deciding AI means tech skills are no longer scarce and treating employees poorly is well trodden ground. Friends are seeing the same thing inside companies as teams and functions value peers less because AI makes them less reliant on each other
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Dare Obasanjo
14 days ago
At this point I believe there is some CEO group chat where they share an “AI productivity gains” template. GitLab announces 1. Software will be built by machines, directed by people. 2. Removing up to three layers of management in some functions so leaders are closer to the work.
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GitLab Act 2
A letter to our customers and our investors.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
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Designing the AI-native engineering organization
How 1Password, Atlassian, and Microsoft are responding to AI’s impact on software development and team structure.
https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/designing-the-ai-native-engineering?utm_source=brevo
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“Say it louder for the people in the back!”
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Agile in the Age of AI - Miren
The principles haven't changed. The participants have.
https://miren.dev/blog/agile-in-the-age-of-ai?utm_source=brevo
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The self-driving codebase: Building Horizon at WorkOS — WorkOS
A detailed glimpse at Project Horizon: an internal code factory at WorkOS.
https://workos.com/blog/project-horizon
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The CTO Who Knows Too Much — Ballistarius
Experience is supposed to be the asset. At a certain point, it becomes the liability. Here’s how to tell which one you’re carrying.
https://ballistarius.com/article-cto-knows-too-much.html
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I felt this post in my core. So spot on.
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Programming Still Sucks. — Writing
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this...
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp?utm_source=brevo
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A Lesson From the Cockpit
The tech industry has declared that AI will increase developer productivity. Task-level productivity feels obvious, though concrete evidence is elusive — for example, METR reported a widely cited …
https://www.subbu.org/essays/2026/a-lesson-from-the-cockpit/
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Building a Natural Language Interface to the Spotify Ads API with Claude Code Plugins | Spotify Engineering
We built a suite of skills, agents and tools bundled as a plugin to make the Spotify Ads Platform easily accessible to AI agentic tools. The spotify-ads-api plugin is available on and through Anthrop...
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/5/spotify-ads-api-claude-plugins
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Becoming a Business Leader, Not Just a Technical One
Stop treating business fluency as someone else's job
https://kevingoldsmith.substack.com/p/becoming-a-business-leader-not-just
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EricLaw 🎻
16 days ago
🤣 😂 😂 😂 😂 🤣
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Great post by
@crawshaw.io
On the point of early Microsoft development practices, I vaguely recall reading Microsoft Secrets by Michael Cusamano which might have some insights. I read a LOT of books about Apple and Microsoft back in the day as Jobs and Gates were the only “role models”.
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crawshaw - 2026-05-07
https://crawshaw.io/blog/agent-principal-agent
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NaNdi
20 days ago
exe.dev
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exe.dev - ssh exe.dev
Build apps or SSH into a persistent Linux VM. ssh exe.dev.
https://exe.dev
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TFW your kid asks about the architecture diagram you’re working on because it looked similar to something they saw in their college intro to computer science. 💜 That, and they showed any interest in your work AT ALL!
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Being a Human Engineer in the AI Era
Announcing a new Navigating the AI Shift course, starting soon!
https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/being-a-human-engineer-in-the-ai?utm_source=brevo
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Life comes at you fast
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There LLM coding may be revolutionizing softwar…
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/04/28/life-comes-at-you-fast/?utm_source=brevo
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A GitHub for maintainers
Giving dependencies the same treatment the fork got
https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/02/a-github-for-maintainers.html
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The Critical Shift In What Differentiates Great Leaders
When AI "outsmarts" everyone, your leadership differentiator is your intuition and emotions. It is your ability to rally teams, diffuse conflict, and hold the line on right and wrong.
https://news.theuncommonexecutive.com/p/feelings-over-logic?utm_source=brevo
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Claude Design is a "clock time" solution for a "calendar time" problem
Orgs are betting that they can substitute sense-making with faster artifact delivery. Users are paying the price.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/claude-design-is-a-clock-time-solution-for-a-calendar-time-problem
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The Leadership Leap We Don’t Talk About
I kept seeing the same thing over and over.
https://suzansfieldnotes.substack.com/p/the-leadership-leap-we-dont-talk?utm_source=brevo
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The end of the non-technical engineering manager
The engineering managers who thrive will be those who combine people leadership with genuine technical depth.
https://leaddev.com/career-development/the-end-of-the-non-technical-engineering-manager?utm_source=substack
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The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
Caught between fears of job loss and social stigma, Gen Z’s opinions of AI are hitting new lows.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920401/gen-z-ai
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Anil Dash
29 days ago
It’s a shame Microsoft is making all of its most experienced employees retire; they might want some of their shooters when it’s time to bring out the old-school MS playbook on how to fuck over your partners.
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