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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
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
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
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
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
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
Cooper's decision-making framework already describes what good teams do — naming it gives you leverage.
Mar 8, 2026
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