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Issue #678
Essential Reading For Engineering Leaders
Tuesday 30th December issue is presented by Logic
What if you could ship your LLM-powered feature in minutes, instead of days (or weeks)?
Logic turns natural-language descriptions into production-ready REST APIs in 45 seconds: typed, tested, versioned, and logged. Engineering teams at VC-backed startups use Logic to skip countless hours of orchestration code, model routing, and deployment work.
Ship the feature, skip the fuss.
— Simon Sinek
tl;dr: “It’s a pattern at so many organizations: when the heat is on, people either retreat into management mode or step up into leadership. The difference isn’t about job titles or org charts - it’s about fundamental choices in how we treat people when it matters most.”
Leadership Management
— Mike Fisher
tl;dr: “Eventually motion becomes the story leaders tell themselves to avoid confronting a harder truth: they have confused velocity with direction. Speed becomes an alibi for clarity. The organization keeps spinning, confident that enough activity will eventually add up to progress. Yet beneath that churn lies the real cost, the gradual dimming of imagination, agency, and shared purpose. And once those fade, it no longer matters how fast the company is moving. It has already begun to drift.”
Leadership Management
— Steve Krenzel
tl;dr: AI agents need good code to thrive. Logic's team enforces 100% test coverage, thoughtful file organization, and end-to-end typing: not as nice-to-haves, but as essential guardrails. When your codebase becomes the agent's working environment, best practices stop being optional.
Promoted by Logic
Leadership Management Tools
— Lizzie Matusov
tl;dr: “Every engineering leader has witnessed it: a message intended as neutral feedback lands as harsh criticism, or an encouraging comment gets dismissed as unprofessional. These miscommunications aren’t just awkward—they can derail team dynamics and project success. This week we ask: How differently do software developers perceive the same communication, and what does this mean for team collaboration?”
CareerAdvice
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
— Jade Rubick
tl;dr: “I once asked an executive assistant to help me be better at calendaring. Of course, she was a complete expert and pro at this, and I learned a lot. I’d like to share some of the things she taught me.”
CareerAdvice
tl;dr: This free eBook breaks down why eng teams at MSCI, Toast, and Zscaler use AI for prod rather than a dressed-up LLM. It covers multi-agent coordination, why LLMs and single agents break, how AI for prod changes core workflows, and how teams evolve when agents coordinate investigations, persist knowledge, and act with guardrails.
Promoted by Resolve AI
Performance AI
tl;dr: “In this blog, we’ll take you on a deep dive into the pull-based ingestion model that powers our architecture. We’ll share the journey of contributing pull-based indexing to OpenSearch and explain how this enables us to migrate our in-house search systems to the open-source platform. More details on the evolution of Uber’s search platform can be found in a prior blog.”
DeepDive Architecture
— Sushant Dhiman
tl;dr: “I’ve a deep interest in learning how computers work; that’s why in my 2026 books collection I’ve added books that cover computer science, not any particular language or technology.”
Books
— Alex Kladov
tl;dr: "I find myself writing yet another toy parser, as one does during a Christmas break. It roughly follows Resilient LL Parsing Tutorial. Not because I need resilience, but mostly because I find producing a syntax tree and a collection of diagnostics a more natural fit for the problem than bailing out on the first error."
Guide
Most Popular From Last Issue
Never Split The Difference — Anna Shipman
Notable Links
Art of CL: Master the command line, in one page.
RenderCV: CV / resume generator for academics and engineers.
Snitch: A prettier way to inspect network connections.
Textarea: Minimalist text editor that lives in URL.
Vibium: Browser automation for AI agents and humans.
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