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“Tech workers are mostly afraid of being squeezed by their jobs and increasing productivity exp…#
“Tech workers are mostly afraid of being squeezed by their jobs and increasing productivity expectations, privately convinced the field is no longer worth recommending to newcomers, while individually still finding real power and even joy in the tools.”
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-workers-are-feeling-in-2026
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“Most dependency strategies are attempts to avoid interpersonal negotiation. The tooling doesn…#
“Most dependency strategies are attempts to avoid interpersonal negotiation. The tooling doesn’t remove the disagreement, it just picks who loses by default.”
https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/10/package-management-as-org-chart.html
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“I sat in all of those exit conversations thinking I’d hear something different each time, su…#
“I sat in all of those exit conversations thinking I’d hear something different each time, such as a better job offer, a life change, or something I could file away as circumstance. However, all three said a version of the same thing. One of them put it plainly:
“I cannot handle this pressure of making things right without any credit for it.””
https://leaddev.com/ai/ai-productivity-is-burning-out-your-best-engineers
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“So I’ve drawn a line. I only discuss pros and cons with smart people; I don’t argue right …#
“So I’ve drawn a line. I only discuss pros and cons with smart people; I don’t argue right and wrong with ego-driven ones. With the first kind, a disagreement is a joint search for the better answer, and both of us walk away sharper. With the second, there is no answer being sought, only a self to be defended.”
https://wangcong.org/2026-06-30-why-i-stopped-arguing-with-people.html
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“The core lesson of EngThrive is that measurement fails not from bad data but from incomplete i…#
“The core lesson of EngThrive is that measurement fails not from bad data but from incomplete interpretation: activity metrics tell you about motion, and only outcome metrics tell you about progress.“
https://rdel.substack.com/p/rdel-151-how-did-microsoft-design