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“AWS’s competitive moat was never just the services; it was the operational expertise that let …#
“AWS’s competitive moat was never just the services; it was the operational expertise that let them run those services at a scale nobody else could match. If that expertise is walking out the door, the moat is draining.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonemployees/s/31KVQd4Ahw
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Good questions to consider: “But these questions are framed in this way to encourage us all to …#
Good questions to consider: “But these questions are framed in this way to encourage us all to aspire towards roles that enable us to do our best work, to have the biggest impact, and to live according to our values.”
https://anildash.com/2026/01/12/will-that-job-crush-your-soul/
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“System design lives in an open world of ambiguity, trade-offs, incentives, and failure modes t…#
“System design lives in an open world of ambiguity, trade-offs, incentives, and failure modes that are never written down. This is why “mutts” with hybrid background often excel in system design. Liberal arts train you to reason about systems made of humans, incentives, and the big picture.”
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/01/rethinking-university-in-age-of-ai.html
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“Engineering teams have three primary components: people, projects, and process.” <https://c…#
“Engineering teams have three primary components: people, projects, and process.”
https://cate.blog/2026/01/20/scaling-teams-people-projects-and-process/
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The Law of Stretched Systems in action: “After guiding way too many hobby projects through Cla…#
The Law of Stretched Systems in action:
“After guiding way too many hobby projects through Claude Code over the past two months, I’m starting to think that most people won’t become unemployed due to AI—they will become busier than ever. Power tools allow more work to be done in less time, and the economy will demand more productivity to match.”
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“Letting the model generate code fragments instead of making individual tool calls makes agenti…#
“Letting the model generate code fragments instead of making individual tool calls makes agentic workflows interpretable, auditable, and explainable, ensuring users understand exactly how decisions are made and preventing hidden or unintended behaviors from going unnoticed.”
https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3777544
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““You can just do things” was what was on my mind all the time but it took quite a bit long…#
““You can just do things” was what was on my mind all the time but it took quite a bit longer to realize that just because you can, you might not want to. It became so easy to build something and in comparison it became much harder to actually use it or polish it.”
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/