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Finding Yourself in the AI Era: From Solving Puzzles to Solving Problems
The engineers thriving with AI focus on making ideas real, not on the intellectual challenge of coding itself. Reframe your identity broadly enough that AI becomes a tool, not an existential threat.
14.01.2026
AI Skeptics, Generalists, and the Precision-Accuracy Paradox in Software Teams
Exploring why critical thinking beats blind faith in AI adoption, the difference between building things right and building the right things, and what truly makes a generalist valuable.
13.01.2026
Career Sabbaticals, Identity Crisis, and AI-Powered Self-Discovery
Former Nubank engineering director Thiago Ghisi shares insights on sabbaticals, navigating identity without job titles, and using Claude Code as a second brain.
09.01.2026
2026 Tech Trends: Boring Tech, AI Advocacy, and Job Market Insights
Key insights on choosing simple technology stacks, responsible AI advocacy, and the software engineering job market for 2026.
05.01.2026
2025 Programming Retrospective: Job Market Crisis, Vanilla JS Revival, and AI-Driven FOMO
A look at 2025's programming landscape - from the worst job market in history to developers abandoning frameworks and dealing with AI-induced anxiety.
31.12.2025
The 2026 Income Defense Strategy: Using AI to Level Up Without Getting Noticed
How to secretly use AI to operate at VP level while sitting in a Senior Associate seat, and why becoming the 'AI Guy' at your office is a career mistake.
31.12.2025
Refactoring Newsletter 2025 Retrospective: AI, Product Engineering, and the Changing Tech Landscape
A year-end review of the biggest trends in engineering leadership: AI's cognitive costs, the rise of product engineering, platform teams, and what elite engineering organizations look like today.
31.12.2025
AI Engineering, Modern PHP, and the Perils of Git as a Database
This edition covers a comprehensive AI engineering guidebook, the surprising relevance of modern PHP, Salesforce's regrets after replacing staff with AI, and the consistent failure of using Git as a package manager database.
26.12.2025
The State of AI in 2025: Reasoning Models, Talent Wars, and Agentic Coding
A year-end review of 2025 in AI, covering the rise of reasoning models, the intense corporate battle for talent, the boom in data center construction, the surge in agentic coding, and the shifting dynamics of the global AI chip industry.
26.12.2025
JavaScript Mastery, Developer Independence, and Interview Prep
This edition of daily.dev focuses on core JavaScript skills over frameworks, strategies for developer differentiation in 2026, a boilerplate for Google Workspace add-ons, and effective techniques for technical interview preparation.
25.12.2025
The AI Skill That Actually Gets You Hired in 2026
As AI cheapens the cost of writing code, the most valuable skill is shifting from execution to judgment. Future-proof your career by combining technical skills with a deep understanding of product, business, and the ability to manage the technical debt that AI creates.
23.12.2025
On Unmet Goals and Unexpected Progress
A personal reflection on the humbling experience of failing to meet planned goals, while achieving significant, unplanned personal growth in other areas of life.
21.12.2025
Build a Portfolio That Matters: 5 Prompts to Get Started
An argument for prioritizing a portfolio of shipped work over personal branding, using AI to document and structure your projects effectively.
15.12.2025
The Illusion of Control in Career Growth
An analysis of how relinquishing the belief in total control can lead to a more sustainable and discerning approach to ambition and career development.
14.12.2025
Upgrade Your LinkedIn Profile With ChatGPT
A tutorial on how to use ChatGPT to rewrite your LinkedIn headline, about section, and experience to attract more opportunities.
12.12.2025
Lessons Learned from 25 Years in Tech: A Journey of Growth and Career Insights
Exploring Umberto Nicoletti's 25-year career journey in tech, sharing valuable lessons, career insights, and the importance of finding one's ikigai.
10.12.2025
The Mindset of a Founding Engineer in an AI Startup
Michelle Lim, first engineer at Warp and founder of Flint, shares insights on what it takes to be a successful founding engineer at an AI startup, emphasizing a product-first mindset, a willingness to go beyond the job description, and the importance of choosing the right founders.
04.12.2025
The Hidden Cost of Automating Junior Roles with AI
By automating entry-level work, companies are creating a 'talent debt,' eliminating the very roles that build senior talent and future leaders.
04.12.2025
Becoming the Go-To AI Expert at Work
A playbook to position yourself as your team's go-to AI expert, even without a technical background.
03.12.2025
MIT Study: AI Could Replace 11.7% of US Workforce - The Iceberg Index Revealed
MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory release the Iceberg Index study showing AI can already replace $1.2 trillion in wages, with major implications for knowledge workers.
01.12.2025