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Issue #748
Essential Reading For Engineering Leaders
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— Wes Kao
tl;dr: “At all types of organizations, I’m seeing more high-performers get rewarded when they can handle projects end-to-end. If a normal operator is an infantry soldier, these operators are Navy SEALs. They can parachute into unknown territory to quickly assess a situation. Then determine the best course of action.”
CareerGrowth
— Mike Fisher
tl;dr: “Pick your most critical system, process or relationship and name the one person holding it up. Then ask what happens if that person is unreachable for a month starting tomorrow. If the answer scares you, write it down before the feeling passes, because these risks survive on the decision to think about it later.”
Management TeamHealth
tl;dr: AI writes more code than ever and a lot of that of ships with vulnerabilities. CodeRabbit Security brings continuous code review and security into one AI platform, reasoning across your full codebase to catch complex bugs and vulnerabilities. It's built for teams shipping at AI speed, where legacy pattern-based scanners can't keep up with AI-generated code. Free trial includes 10 code scans.
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CodeReview AI Security
— David Pereira
tl;dr: “For too long, we’ve endured complex decision-making approaches. Now that decisions are clearly our bottleneck, I’m bullish on those who can simplify them. I want to share my approach with you, and how you can bring it to your scenario. I hope this helps you simplify what others complicate.”
Leadership DecisionMaking
“A one-on-one is a place to listen for what your employee isn’t saying.”
— Steve Huynh
tl;dr: My friend said something to me once that I’ve been repeating ever since: “Bad news delivered early is just called news.” I think about that line every time I make a mistake.
Communication CareerGrowth
— Luka Biber
tl;dr: “I want engineers who use AI to write code faster. I do not want candidates quietly reading AI answers to questions about a language they have supposedly mastered over ten or twenty years. The initial screening call is where you find out which one you have.”
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Management AI
— Murat Demirbas
tl;dr: While the programmer's job description is getting completely refactored, writing remains surprisingly unaffected. LLMs have gotten very good at generating code, but I am appalled at the absolute shit they spew as prose... I am increasingly convinced LLMs will not threaten decent writers anytime soon. My prediction rests on the three observations below. Tell me where my logic does not hold up.
AI CareerGrowth
— Adolfo Ochagavía
tl;dr: “Compression is one of those wonderful things we have grown accustomed to in the computer world. You wave a magic wand and — poof! — a file suddenly shrinks to a fraction of its size! You wave the wand again and — pop!— the original file is restored down to the last bit. How can this possibly work? Let’s find out!”
DeepDive Algo
— Jarred Kenny
tl;dr: “The agent keeps moving, but movement is not the problem. The tests only protect what we already know, and the important failures sit outside them. A screen can look complete while it stores nothing. An agent can give the right answer for the wrong reason. A scorer can reward behavior no user wants. More turns make each of those failures cheaper and faster.”
Testing AI Agents
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Notable Links
Archify: Turn a codebase into a system map.
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FMT: Modern formatting library.
Wigolo: The go-to web for your agent.
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