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12 things I miss since coding died
The satisfaction of debugging, rabbit holes, and 10 more
How to answer "Just use AI and move faster"
Subtitle: 3 tips from an Engineering Manager at Harvey
The 4 engineering management archetypes
What would the sorting hat say about you?
The broken windows theory of coding agents
When my most experienced engineer got tired of our shitty code
Take that demotion
It's the perfect time for a switchback move
The Engineering Manager's role is under attack (again)
And nobody learns from past mistakes
When non-devs open PRs
My failed attempts to create a good system for handling it
Extreme Programming 1999->2026
Timely lessons from a 27-year-old book
The 3 product battles 84% of EMs lose
"PMs decide what, engineers decide how" is a bad deal
The death and revival of the hands-on Engineering Manager
The antidote to the AI-hype
3 things top 1% teams do differently
Hiring, parallelization, and why they stopped reviewing most PRs
Charting your team's knowledge & skills map
If you rebuilt your team again today, knowing what you know now, would it look the same?
Cursing the day Lovable was born
Explaining to business people why building software is still hard
The software engineering war
Most of us picked a side and won't budge. Which one are you on?
7 reasons experienced EMs get stuck
The mistakes that stall a career, even when you see them coming.
Building a code reviewer from your team's PR history
Github template inside ⬇️
The "I don't know, Claude wrote this" pandemic
When Claude drives you off the cliff
The generalist EM's reading list
7 books to easily catch up with non-engineering professions in tech (number 3 is a must read)
Surviving in the "chaos management" era
More "AI skills" is not what you need right now
"okay" vs excellent engineering teams
7 small gaps