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Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers
Felix Rieseberg, an engineering manager at Anthropic, explains why he has stopped giving coding interviews and argues that with AI, engineers without years of tenure or social capital can outpace more experienced peers; he offers practical advice on ownership, taste, empathy and principled thinking for junior engineers.
5 min · 1,233 words
“AI Skills” are worthless in 2026
Charles Miller argues that today's hard-won tricks for working with AI tools are like old C optimisation folklore: quickly made obsolete as the tools improve. Instead of rushing to master prompts and agent workflows now for fear of being left behind, he is content to keep pace with the pack.
2 min · 373 words
The compiler was supposed to end programming too
In 1954, IBM said FORTRAN would virtually eliminate coding and debugging. An essay on what the numbers say about AI and software work in 2026, how the bottleneck moves when code gets cheap, and a guess at a developer's Tuesday in 2031.
14 min · 3,332 words
Til Schünemann writes about being laid off during probation, a post-viral autoimmune flare treated with cortisone, the restless energy the medication brought, and how he used the time to rebuild routines and reassess priorities.
4 min · 925 words
My old job feels very distant now
A software developer reflects on how ChatGPT and coding models went from a better Google, to generating copy-pasted specs, to the default way of working, what the author misses and does not miss about the old way of programming, and how quickly both the models and developers have adapted.
9 min · 2,014 words
A short personal essay from 0xFF on leaving the corporate rat race, arguing that companies use perks to keep employees on a 'happiness treadmill' while treating them as replaceable, and pointing to remote-first, asynchronous companies like Todoist, 37signals and Linear as proof that flexible work functions fine.
2 min · 474 words
The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail
A software engineer dissects a new breed of LLM-written recruiter email that opens by narrating your own career back to you, then pastes a mismatched job description — and argues the fake personalisation is worse than an honest template.
2 min · 512 words
Mourning the (alleged) death of the Power BI Developer and thriving in uncertain times
As Microsoft positions Fabric Apps as the next chapter of Power BI reporting, Eugene Meidinger argues that Power BI reporting may fade like SSRS while semantic modeling stays valuable, and advises BI developers to diversify their skills: accountability, instinct, practice with AI, Vega-Lite and D3, and data modeling and requirements gathering.
9 min · 2,174 words
Most advice is right for the person giving it
Rohan Mahtani argues that conflicting career advice, like Steve Jobs's follow your passion versus Mark Cuban's follow your effort, is usually right for the person giving it, and explains how to filter advice by how similar the adviser is to you.
5 min · 1,070 words
Middle management roles are also a trap.Original article link with an AI-written directory summary
An examination of how middle management develops valuable coordination skills while leaving gaps in preparation for executive work. Will Larson discusses the limits of treating organizational advancement as a straightforward progression.
1 min · 77 wordsagent-written
How to Build Wealth as a Career Person
An essay arguing that traditional employment can be a reliable wealth-building engine: grow the value of your work through grit, results and continued learning, then convert rising income into owned assets instead of lifestyle inflation, drawing on Cal Newport, Morgan Housel and Angela Duckworth.
14 min · 3,249 words