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Issue #753
Essential Reading For Engineering Leaders
Tuesday 22nd September issue is presented by CodeRabbit
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— Mike Fisher
tl;dr: “We rate individuals. We compare individuals in calibration. Our promotion rubric counts individual output. Our improvement plans correct individuals. We pay a premium to hire individuals, on the theory that whatever made them good travels with them in a backpack. We produce performance as an organization and then account for it one person at a time.”
Management PerformanceReviews
— Jade Rubick
tl;dr: "Leadership is often about trends. Your job is to look at the horizon and identify how things are going to trend: (1) What things are getting better over time? (2) What is getting worse over time? (3) How can you make sure that your organization is getting better in every dimension? Jade shares a simple test to survey your organization."
Leadership Management
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
— Thorsten Ball
tl;dr: “To plant my flag, to say that these are things I believed in September 2026, here it is on the blog, non-ephemeral. Some of these predictions are just observations, they’ve long been true at companies like Amp. Others will take some time to play out.”
Strategy AI IndustryTrends
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
— Sunil Pai
tl;dr: “A friend recently got a new job, a very senior role, very well paid, and pretty different from his previous gig. He was asking me how to do a 60 to 80-hour week, how to do well enough to get promoted, etc. and as we talked, I realised he was feeling a bit of imposter syndrome and really wanted to prove himself. I ended up giving him a bit of a monologue. this is more or less what I told him...”
Staff+ WellBeing CareerGrowth
— Luka Biber
tl;dr: Everyone’s code looks good now. The engineers who matter are the ones who know why it works, and can tell when it doesn’t. Now more than ever, hiring comes down to finding people who understand the why behind what they built and why it was the best solution. Here’s how to find them.
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Management AI Hiring
— Will Larson
tl;dr: The software factory pattern is looping on a broad goal, and then relying on the harness to drive progress towards that goal. Will describes the first basic version he’s implemented at his company.
CaseStudy AI Agents
— Daniil Bastrich
tl;dr: “In practice, such principles ultimately come down to managing coupling and cohesion in all their forms and at every level of a system. And once we have a good grasp of coupling and cohesion, there is little point in memorizing the alphabet soup of design principles, let alone fetishizing them.”
CodeQuality Architecture
— Diogo Almeida
tl;dr: “After two years in stealth, countless technical challenges, and research breakthroughs… I am beyond excited to announce that today, TypeSafe AI is releasing our first System One Model: a new class of frontier models built to make fast, structured decisions that software can use directly.”
ReleaseNotes IndustryTrends AI
Most Popular From Last Issue
Notable Links
Archify: Turn a codebase into a system map.
Atlas: Source control for coding agents.
AX: Google's open agentic orchestration runtime.
Humanizer: Removes signs of AI-generated writing.
Jev Ultrafast: Fastest and cheapest web agent.
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