Who wants to be an engineering manager anyway? - LeadDev
era of fast growth and promotions seems over for now
Noted February 15, 2026
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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail - Lalit Maganti
goodwill is on the balance sheet
Noted February 8, 2026
Junior Developers in the Age of AI - by Christine Miao
you need jrs I the market to get future seniors
Noted February 8, 2026
Top Software Engineering Students Can't Get a Job Because of AI
hard time for CS graduates
Noted February 8, 2026
We’re not concerned enough about the future of junior-level software engineering | by Austin Starks | Jan, 2026 | Medium
AI sucks the oxygen away from small incremental work - but breeds review work
Noted January 5, 2026
Why Big Tech Turns Everything Into a Knife Fight | by Dmitry Trifonov | Data Science Collective | Jan, 2026 | Medium
zero sum sometimes applies - more than you'd like to think
Noted January 5, 2026
AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job. – Terrible Software
programming is a task not the job
Noted December 21, 2025
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti
great representation from non-product teams
Noted December 21, 2025
AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded - Rest of World
supply and demand of CS graduates
Noted December 21, 2025
AI Godfather Warns Mid-Level Coding Jobs Will Disappear
ai is coming for TASKS not JOBS
Noted December 21, 2025
Is AI about to expose just how mediocre most developers are? | Rob Bowley
an ode to mediocrity
Noted December 5, 2025
What Actually Makes You Senior – Terrible Software
senior title is about grok-ing systems efficiently
Noted December 4, 2025
How good engineers write bad code at big companies
incentive structure rewards moving code bases - so every code base has 'new' engineers on it
Noted December 3, 2025
The death of the junior developer | Sourcegraph Blog
"its a bad year to be a junior anything"
Noted November 28, 2025
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting - The Atlantic
economic restructuring of the software engineering labor market
Noted November 28, 2025
What makes a great software engineer?
the best SWE are outcome, impact and people oriented - good code is just the baseline
Noted November 28, 2025
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence
jc - young people entering the work force are so cooked
Noted November 27, 2025
You Should Change Companies - by Philip Su - Molochinations
warning survivors bias - but a good fable on switching companies
Noted November 23, 2025
Being an “Intrapreneur” as a software engineer
always deliver - career advice from a google employee
Noted November 23, 2025
Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum – charity.wtf
software career management
Noted November 23, 2025
Firms’ Wage-Setting Power: Monopsony in the Labor Market
ideal dating and finding a ideal employer - Monopsony Power
Noted November 23, 2025
What the end of Section 174 means for software developer hiring - LeadDev
another take on s174 - no it did not stem the tide of layoffs
Noted November 23, 2025
The Pulse: Section 174 is reversed! Mostly, that is
section 174 and the ZIRP era
Noted November 23, 2025
Work-Life Balance Slows Careers (E9 Engineer, ex-Meta)
results + relationships = success
Noted September 29, 2025
US Hits Highest Layoffs Since COVID - Newsweek
peak layoffs. so over it
Noted September 29, 2025
The Broken Marketplace Study
good site on new reality of hiring
Noted September 29, 2025
Silicon Valley's graying workforce: Gen Z staff cut in half at tech companies as the average age goes up by 5 years | Fortune
AI Feels like the false boogey man for a weak job market for new hires
Noted September 28, 2025