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What the AI era owes you. No one is going to save your career… | by Dan Maccarone | Oct, 2026 | UX Collective

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:38:53 +0000

This is not the pep talk anyone wants. The pep talk is that it’ll be fine, new jobs are coming, somebody’s got it handled, but that’s a lie. The reality is, nobody is coming to retrain you, but that is not the end of the story.

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Staff+ engineers must rebuild team culture - LeadDev

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:26:04 +0000

AI is driving a shift to more autonomous work within teams, which means opportunities to establish culture that used to be automatic – time spent pairing, organizing work around shared goals, planning and designing together – now require deliberate choices.

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Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists - LeadDev

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:25:38 +0000

The more AI-generated code a team produces, the more review work lands on the engineers who care most about quality, often the most experienced people on the team. The volume of output rises while the nature of the work shifts from creation to inspection, and the engineers doing the hardest cognitive labor appear, by the metrics, to be less productive than the ones generating code with AI.

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You should never be angry at work

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 02:56:45 +0000

Being angry at work feels good. It feels like proof that you’re working on something that matters, and that you’re personally having an impact. If you’re angry, nobody can call you a coaster. But anger is only a local maximum. If you can find your way to a different style of working, you’ll not only be more effective, but you’ll be in a far better place to have impact on problems that actually matter.

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Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees | CU Boulder Today | University of Colorado Boulder

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:16:02 +0000

The findings also cast doubt on one of the main arguments for bringing employees back to the office: that people need to be together in person to feel connected.

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A Concrete Definition of “Product Sense” (and How to Build It) - NN/G

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:29:20 +0000

Product sense is the ability to recognize when current problems match past successes or failures and reliably estimate how similar solutions will affect the desired outcomes.

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The Tragedy of the Engineering Commons

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:17:45 +0000

The surest way to ruin an engineering team is to believe it will survive whatever you do to it.

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Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:06:50 +0000

"Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that would produce a high-quality product," he said.

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The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:06:08 +0000

There's useful automation software that makes it easier to code, draft a new resume, or study vast repositories of scientific knowledge. And then there's a parade of technofascist hucksters lying to your face about the imminent arrival of omniscient, sentient, paradigm-rattling supercomputers. There's a tremendous chasm between these two things. And everywhere you look you can see evidence that we've reached a breaking point when it comes to reconciling these two wildly-different realities.

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Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:50:35 +0000

Ego-driven management also relies on the old factory mentality that holds that the best workers are the ones who arrive early, work late, and are seen hustling by the bosses. Putting in 80-hour workweeks may be necessary at a startup, but in most businesses, that's as stupid as measuring programmers' productivity by lines of code or, more recently, by how many AI tokens they use.

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No Juniors Today, No Seniors in 2031 — Blog | Filipe Brito Ferreira — Front-End Engineer

Sun, 24 May 2026 19:09:53 +0000

AI didn’t kill the senior engineer. We did, by not hiring the junior who would’ve become one. Compound interest works in both directions. The per-developer cost I wrote about a month ago is one side of the meter. The unhired junior is the other, and that meter has been running since 2024 whether the dashboards report it or not.

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The good times in tech are over

Tue, 19 May 2026 17:08:49 +0000

If I had to choose, I’d definitely choose to return to the job market of the 2010s, so I can be paid more to work less and have more job security. I’m not an idiot. But the silver lining to actually having to ship is that you’re no longer living in a dream. If you’re realistic about how things work, the job of software engineering becomes much easier to understand: Providing value to the company gets you rewarded Not providing value to the company gets you punished “Value to the company” means furthering the explicit plans of your company’s executives

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The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon

Tue, 19 May 2026 17:07:24 +0000

Some senior and staff engineers operate as gatekeepers, slowing down development and saying no to most things This was a critical role during ZIRP, because: Tech companies had thousands of engineers who were empowered to do basically whatever they wanted, so without gatekeeping the systems would have fallen apart Tech companies didn’t care that much if they got anything done When ZIRP ended, the environment for this kind of engineer became much worse, since tech companies were now actually focused on accomplishing things and the “do whatever you want” era was over Like with layoffs, this shift is often blamed on AI, but it would have happened even if powerful LLMs had not emerged at all. It’s an end-of-ZIRP phenomenon

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Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

Mon, 11 May 2026 17:29:31 +0000

If AI does turn out to make you dumber, why can’t we just keep writing code by hand? You can! You just might not be able to earn a salary doing so, for the same reason that there aren’t many jobs out there for carpenters who refuse to use power tools. If the models are good enough, you will simply get outcompeted by engineers willing to trade their long-term cognitive ability for a short-term lucrative career3.

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Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Wed, 06 May 2026 21:14:46 +0000

Somewhere in your infrastructure is a cron job. It runs at 3am. It has been running since 2016. It does something critical. You couldn't tell me exactly what, but you know the one person who could, and they left in 2019. The comment at the top says # DO NOT CHANGE!!! Ask Ben. Ben is not reachable. Every roadmap planning session for the last four years has included "modernize legacy cron" as a candidate initiative. It has never made the cut. You have personally removed it from the list twice. Someone keeps it running. Her name is Sara. You don't know this.

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