There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are underrated for a few reasons. Empathetic…

In the glory days of the 2010s, tech companies were very invested in their employees’ work-life balance. Those glory days are over…

One surprising thing I’ve learned from writing this blog is that I should worry a lot less about saying things that seem obvious. A lot of…

Large language models are very good at generating and editing code. Right now, it’s probably the “killer app” of AI: the companies actually…

For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were…