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From the day that I stepped into a manager role till today, I've been relying on other people to do my job. Every passing year, I sacrificed a piece of my software engineering 'expertise' to organisational constraints.: the work that requires me to help a

One thing I keep thinking about is making sense of the Internet. Everything is mingled and mixed. I'm okay with it being chaotic. I'm not okay with my corner of it contributing to this jungle. Although a little outside of the context Jim & John talk about

I watched this video that shows (and also explains) the universe from the Big Bang till now. The moment you see the human is the last thing, as a fraction of a second. That tells how insignificant we are in the universe. However, it's also impossible to c

Software engineering as we used to know it is dead. AI condensed the code-writing step of the process from days to minutes. Engineers found themselves having many tasks on their plates, running many agents in parallel. They are burning out tokens and them

Many people are struggling to understand what they think about AI and how to approach it. Perhaps the bigger problem is that the technology is not fully deterministic but probabilistic. I quite like the framing of the idea Dan presents: AI's biggest diffe

Recently, I learned what "disagree and commit" truly means , a concept everyone struggles with a lot. Committing to an idea that you disagree with is difficult. Or, let's say it was, until today. The idea is that you may disagree with whatever life throws

I never understood what people meant by "strategic thinking" or "being strategic." I couldn't accept the feedback when I heard "you need to think more strategically" as well. Nobody could explain what that "strategic" word meant. I finally understood the

We have been talking with other engineering leaders around me about the impact of AI in our profession. Although nobody knows what will happen, I kept thinking about where I'm standing and what others are doing today . There is certainly a trend among man

The tighter the connection between business strategy and technical design, the easier for a software engineer to understand and implement. The more apparent this knowledge is, the easier for the AI to pick up and apply the principles and engineer to guide

Mediations is a newsletter I write for software engineers and leaders but I never focus solely on software engineering. This is a newsletter for humans trying to mediate the challenges life presents, so the topics are as wide as it gets. In the last few n