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thekernel.news

A little bit uncomfortable

When I realized there was no real way to move on in that career I loved without having to present my work to audiences.

grahamduncan.blog

What’s going on here, with this human?

Recommendations about candidate selection based on thousands of assessments and a somewhat obsessive interest in the topic.

terriblesoftware.org

What actually makes you senior

The one skill that separates senior folks from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.

terriblesoftware.org

AI can write your code; It can’t do your job

The companies building AI are spending billions to acquire engineers, not replace them. Here’s why your job is safer than you think.

people-work.io

The junior hiring crisis

AI is removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.

staysaasy.com

Own a graph

One of the quickest ways to get better at your job is to own a graph.

werd.io

Disagree and let’s see

“Disagree and commit” is disingenuous. Here is a better idea.

another.rodeo

Feedback doesn’t scale

Listening is always hard, and it only gets harder at scale.

lethain.com

“Good engineering management” is a fad

As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life.

hvpandya.com

Exposure as a designer

For equal amount of design skills, your exposure to the world determines how effective of a designer you can be.

hazelweakly.me

To be a leader of systems

People who become known for seeing systems often become in charge of them.

scatterarrow.com

All your coworkers are probabilistic too

LLMs, humans and the old tricks that still work.

uxdesign.cc

Bridging product design and AI thinking

The shift in product design with the advent of AI and a potential generative experiential future.

den.dev

You need to become a full stack person

AI tools are commoditizing single-skill roles. The future belongs to people who can think, build, and ship across the entire stack.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Comparing interviews at 8 large tech companies

In three months, Puneet did more than 60 interviews at 11 companies, including Google, Uber, Amazon, Atlassian, and others.

yusufaytas.com

How AI broke interviews

AI erased trust in remote interviewing. Here’s how the system broke and how companies are rebuilding interviews around real human reasoning.

chrbutler.com

The fundamentals problem

Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened.

hvpandya.com

Fast is a moat

Speed—turning ideas into tangible results quickly is the most powerful competitive advantage you can build.

geoffreylitt.com

Code like a surgeon

A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but that might be a dangerously incomplete view.

seangoedecke.com

How I influence company politics as a staff software engineer

You don't need to be fatalistic about company politics.