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Ownership Theater
“Act like an owner.” You heard it in your first week, maybe in the offer, dressed up as…
People Blamed AI for These UI Bugs. I Started Wondering Why.
A few days ago, I came across a post showing a strangely broken interface in Meituan, one of…
35% of Workers Say AI Will Do Most of Their Job Within a Year. Anthropic’s Own Data Proves Them Right.
Anthropic just published the most detailed look yet at how AI is reshaping work. The June 2026 Anthropic…
The hidden cost of “stepping up” (why it’s a trap and what to do instead)
Companies expect engineers to “step up” and take on architectural responsibility, without defining what that means, giving them…
Feeling behind never left me, even after 16 years and four titles
I have been building software for sixteen years. I have four ambassador titles I earned honestly. And last…
Programmer vs. Product Builder: What’s the Difference?
The Difference Between a Programmer and a Product Builder For years, I believed that building software was all…
The Push Notification Bug That Took Three Layers to Find
1:00 AM to 2:27 AM. One bug, three root causes, zero clean error messages. It started with a…
Has AI Changed the Joy of Building?
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how AI is changing the way I learn to code. It…
AI commoditized code, not software. Developers keep confusing the two.
People has responded in different ways to a recent tweet by Pieter Levels where he explains he replaced…
As a System Architect, I Wish I Had Learned This Sooner
The biggest and most costly mistakes in my career weren’t hidden in a line of code or a…
