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The Cynical Developer®. A UK based, podcast that helps you to improve your development knowledge and career, through explaining the latest and greatest in development technology and providing you with what you need to succeed as a developer.

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Blog 8 days ago
AI Is Creating Two Kinds of Developers
A quiet split is forming in software teams - not junior versus senior, but developers who've learned to work with AI and those who've decided not to. We look at what the divide really is, why it compounds, and why plenty of brilliant people are on the wro
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Blog 15 days ago
Why Your Team Doesn't Own Anything
We dig into the gap between responsibility and ownership - why so many teams are accountable for outcomes they were never given the authority to control, and how "you own this" quietly becomes "you hold the pager".Written by James Studdart. Voiced using a
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Blog 22 days ago
Remote Work Didn't Kill Productivity - Bad Management Did
We take on the tidy story that remote work killed productivity. It didn't - it removed the things that were hiding weak management. We look at the presence trap, what genuinely broke, and why the easy diagnosis pointed at the wrong people.Written by James
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Blog 29 days ago
The Real Cost of Context Switching
We look at a cost that never shows up on any report: the wreckage an interruption leaves behind. Not the thirty-second question, but the twenty-minute rebuild, and why unpredictability, not volume, is what really destroys deep work.Written by James Studda
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Blog 2 months ago
Why Promotions Rarely Go to the Best Engineers
We pull apart a quiet truth most teams can see but rarely say: the strongest engineer often isn't the one who gets promoted. We look at why visibility beats impact, why the best work leaves the least evidence, and what both sides can actually do about it.
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