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cdevroe.com

If X, then Y

It was never easy to predict the future, but at the moment it feels near impossible.

zwischenzugs.com

A family tree of software job titles

If you’ve been in this industry for any length of time you’ll have seen titles come and go, and you might have wondered where they all came from.

buzzusborne.com

Pick three

Exploring the hidden cost of producing good, fast and cheap creative work.

chrbutler.com

There will always be someone faster, cheaper, and better

AI has designers questioning everything. But the three things we think we’re chosen for haven’t changed at all.

seldo.com

How to hire junior engineers in the age of AI

Junior developer hiring has collapsed because nobody knows how to interview for the new AI-assisted job.

doc.cc

Who owns the doubt?

Nobody arrives at their first design job doubting their first idea; they defend it, usually too loudly.

ryo.lu

Struggle together

I learned programming and design by trying, failing, and trying again. When I hit a wall, I figured out how to climb it.

gabrielvaldivia.com

Everyone is starting over

The careers that thrive now are the ones willing to become someone new, over and over.

anthropic.com

How employment is changing at Anthropic

Anthropic could be a leading indicator of how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy.

world.hey.com

Acceptance

If you haven’t accepted that these things are smarter than you, even in your own domain of expertise, I’m sorry.

uxdesign.cc

What the AI era owes you

No one is going to save your career from AI.

mamuso.dev

Imperfection

If you're reading this, I regret to inform you that I finally published an update to my personal site. I guess I made it.

purplesyringa.moe

Grieving the loss of details

Over the course of a year, I went from having a planned future to worrying about applying for disability.

constitution.design

The designer’s constitution

A model for rethinking what makes a designer in the age of AI.

blog.ronbronson.com

On being anything other than a designer

There’s that person in your job who is the one people call for all kinds of tasks that only “they can do.”

emergingpatterns.design

Emerging patterns: design leadership in 2026

Findings from nearly 120 design leaders — pathways, mentorship, portfolio careers, tooling, and the human qualities of leadership.

draganbabic.com

Design is a nice-to-have

I am in a very weird place right now when it comes to design.

doc.cc

Prompting as self-portrait

AI installed a distorted mirror where the blank page used to be.

2026.stateofdevs.com

State of Devs 2026

Nearly half of this year's survey respondents had experienced job insecurity and insufficient wages.

discourse.haskell.org

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

Afraid of loosing your job to someone with little programming skills, no aspirations to quality, and a huge Claude account?