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Visakhapatnam, India

5 Steps to Review AI-Generated Code Without Slowing Down

Career & Leadership 5 min read

AI made writing code cheap. It didn't make reading it cheap. Here's how to keep review fast without letting "looks fine" ship.

Oct 27, 2026

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Dallas, USA

5 Steps to Go from Senior to Staff Without Managing People

Career & Leadership 5 min read

Staff isn't a better Senior. It's a different job. Here's how to grow into it while staying an engineer.

Oct 24, 2026

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Brisbane, Australia

5 Steps to Keep Humans in the Loop as AI Scales

Industry Trends 6 min read

The more work we hand to AI, the more each human decision matters. Here's how to keep people in charge without turning them into rubber stamps.

Oct 20, 2026

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Brisbane, Australia

5 Steps to Build a Second Brain That Survives Being Ignored

Career & Leadership 5 min read

Most knowledge systems don’t fail when they break. They fail during the three weeks you stop feeding them — and by then you’ve stopped trusting the answers anyway.

Aug 24, 2026

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Dallas, USA

5 Steps to Set Up Atlassian MCP for VS Code

Tutorials 4 min read

Last week I argued you should treat your AI agent like a real developer. This week, I'll show you how — connecting VS Code to Jira through Atlassian's MCP server and building a Next.js landing page entirely from tracked tickets.

Mar 21, 2026

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Brisbane, Australia

5 Steps to Treat Your AI Agent Like a Real Developer

Career & Leadership 4 min read

The teams getting real value from AI coding agents aren't writing better prompts — they're applying the same project management discipline they'd use with any developer.

Mar 13, 2026

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Visakhapatnam, India

5 Steps to Introduce Stage-Gate Thinking to Your Engineering Team

Career & Leadership 4 min read

Cooper's decision-making framework already describes what good teams do — naming it gives you leverage.

Mar 8, 2026

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