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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?

rudyfaile.com

The age of the soft skill

The engineer who missed meetings, answered Slack when they felt like it, and audibly sighed when you asked them to write something down.

davekiss.com

A eulogy for the software engineer

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bury the software engineer.

michaelheap.com

I don’t want the details

Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.

uxdesign.cc

For the Designless

On the value of cultural references, and the cost of losing them at scale.

seldo.com

We are all Product Engineers now

Where, in fact, is the entire industry of software going in the next decade?

jennywanger.com

Burnt out on a three-day week

She works three days a week. She’s still burnt out. When rest doesn’t fix the exhaustion, the workload was never the problem.

seangoedecke.com

You have to beat the models at something

You’re not doing yourself any favors by pretending that LLMs can’t actually write code and it’s all just a scam.