Don't become an engineering manager(newsletter.manager.dev)

364 points by flail 7 months ago | 259 comments

A Manager.dev newsletter post by Anton Zaides arguing that engineers should reconsider accepting promotions to engineering manager roles.

Engineering dogmas it's time to retire(newsletter.manager.dev)

15 points by kiyanwang 10 months ago | 5 comments

Engineering dogmas it's time to retire(newsletter.manager.dev)

25 points by flail 10 months ago | 36 comments

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.

11 years of hosting a SaaS(ghiculescu.substack.com)

280 points by ghiculescu 3 years ago | 187 comments

From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate(thoughtspile.github.io)

253 points by signa11 2 years ago | 168 comments

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)

1029 points by poisonfountain 4 months ago | 967 comments

A personal blog post by a software engineer with 10 years of experience reflecting on how LLMs are eroding their career and their uncertainty about what to do.

Don't become an engineering manager(newsletter.manager.dev)

364 points by flail 7 months ago | 259 comments

A Manager.dev newsletter post by Anton Zaides arguing that engineers should reconsider accepting promotions to engineering manager roles.

You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)(infobip.com)

731 points by tonkkatonka 1 year ago | 399 comments

Infobip developer blog post arguing that working on a legacy project is a necessary experience for becoming a senior software engineer.

The Enterprise Experience(churchofturing.github.io)

458 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 130 comments

A personal blog post by a software developer reflecting snarkily on one year working at a large enterprise after a decade in startups and SMEs.

20 years working on the same software product(successfulsoftware.net)

431 points by hermitcrab 1 year ago | 149 comments

A Successful Software blog post reflecting on 20 years of developing and selling the same software product as an independent developer.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.