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“But if you strip away the title, the salary, and the years of experience, there’s one core s…#
“But if you strip away the title, the salary, and the years of experience, there’s one core skill that separates senior+ engineers from everyone else: reducing ambiguity. Everything else flows from that.”
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/
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“This is what strategy starts to look like as a platform leader. You’re watching where the st…#
“This is what strategy starts to look like as a platform leader. You’re watching where the state of the art is going, and thinking about what makes sense to introduce or evolve so that you can take advantage of that over time. You’re not forcing everyone to move from bare metal hardware to kubernetes overnight, but you’re making the tools to support bare metal to virtualization/containers available, easy to use, and cost-effective, to encourage the natural evolution to happen.”
https://www.elidedbranches.com/2025/06/dude-wheres-my-strategy.html
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“But trying to do “no process” means that what you have is an unintentional process, with t…#
“But trying to do “no process” means that what you have is an unintentional process, with teams left to fend for themselves against the prescriptive whims of highly placed stakeholders.”
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/amazon-s-layoffs-are-driven-by-something-even-stupider-than-ai
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“But all reliability features add complexity, and that additional complexity can create new and…#
“But all reliability features add complexity, and that additional complexity can create new and completely unforeseen failure modes. Unfortunately, such is the nature of complex systems.”
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/06/quick-takes-on-the-dec-5-cloudflare-outage/
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“This means it’s more important than ever to understand event-driven architecture concepts an…#
“This means it’s more important than ever to understand event-driven architecture concepts and trade-offs.”
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/software-in-the-age-of-ai/
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“Those organizations that already have a culture of comprehensive testing and decent CI/CD syst…#
“Those organizations that already have a culture of comprehensive testing and decent CI/CD systems have a significant advantage now. Those can leapfrog others in terms of developer productivity and rapid reductions in time-to-value.”
https://www.subbu.org/articles/2025/ai-slop-in-code-future-is-here/?utm_source=atom_feed
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It’s a mirror and a magnifier. These constraints are always present, but they haven’t been the critical path value-chain bottleneck before. The constraint was always symbol production. AI changes that dynamic, so the constraints of correctness and feedback cycle time become more pronounced.