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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.

herbertlui.net

Don’t let a misunderstanding distract you from your goals

You can decide what certain moments mean to you.

uxdesign.cc

Management values I didn’t expect to learn

Why design management is harder (and better) than we think.

yusufaytas.com

Most of what we call progress

Reflections on why good judgment outlasts tools, and simplicity always wins.

calv.info

You still need to think

With AI, someone still has to direct the work—set goals, choose constraints, and judge outputs.

renderghost.leaflet.pub

The worst designer I’ve ever worked with was also the most productive

When companies mistake volume for value, and incentivize outputs over outcomes.

hojberg.xyz

The programmer identity crisis

On AI, creativity, and craft.

terriblesoftware.org

Stop avoiding politics

Most engineers think workplace politics is dirty. They’re wrong. Refusing to play politics doesn’t make you noble; it makes you ineffective.

ft.com

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away.

andybudd.com

Should designers be paid the same as engineers?

People aren’t remunerated based on knowledge or effort, but on how much value they generate, protect, or multiply—plus accountability.

seangoedecke.com

What is “good taste” in software engineering?

Technical taste is different from technical skill.

uxdesign.cc

Your next design might be your last

What Randy Pausch’s last lecture teaches us about designing with urgency and purpose.