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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
Stop Humanizing AI, Why Teams Aren't Really Empowered, and Strategic Portfolio Management Myths
NN/g argues humanizing AI is a trap that reduces utility, while most 'empowered' product teams are actually feature factories fighting coordination wars.
14.01.2026
From AI Panic to AI Culture: Building Organizational Confidence in 2026
The gap between AI-confident and AI-anxious teams is showing up in promotions, headcount, and results. Here's how to build a pragmatic adoption culture.
11.01.2026
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
Leadership, Craft, and the Art of Jamming Together: Rethinking How Design and Engineering Teams Actually Work
Five perspectives on why staying close to reality matters more than following best practices. Design leaders should jam with their teams, engineers need authority over their own systems, and micromanagement fears often mask deeper trust issues.
07.01.2026
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
Refactoring Unveils a New Brand Identity
Luca Rossi walks through the journey of Refactoring's brand evolution, moving from an accidental identity to a deliberate and cohesive system that reflects its core values of simplicity, thoroughness, and a human-centric approach to engineering leadership.
24.12.2025
AI-Driven Talent Management with the 9-Box Grid
Leverage AI to systematically evaluate employee performance and potential, making informed decisions about promotions, development, and team composition.
23.12.2025
From Overhead to Asset: The 5-Prompt Roadmap to AI Fluency
As companies scrutinize AI ROI, this guide reframes AI from a simple text generator to a tool for generating clarity. It offers five practical, high-utility prompts designed to solve real business problems, starting with a 'Tone Audit' to patch the empathy gap in professional communication.
23.12.2025
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
Building Product Development Teams with Rob Zuber from CircleCI
CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber discusses building effective product engineering teams, the standardization vs flexibility tradeoff, and lessons learned from scaling software organizations.
28.11.2025
Career Paths for Software Engineers at Large Tech Companies
Strategic insights on progressing from mid-level to principal engineer at companies like Amazon, including promotion tactics and management transitions.
18.11.2025
Generative Culture, Engineering Allocation, and Creator CEOs
How generative cultures, intentional engineering time allocation, and creator CEOs reshape modern organizations
17.11.2025
Polyglot Development, Technology Migration Strategy, and Modern Tooling
Exploring why modern projects embrace multiple languages, frameworks for technology decisions, and emerging tools in Vue and Go ecosystems
17.11.2025
The AI Preparation Pattern That Changes High-Stakes Meetings
How a cancer patient's two-hour AI prep routine before oncologist appointments reveals a universal pattern for turning shallow check-ins into focused decisions.
14.11.2025
Engineering-Executive Communication: Building the Translation Layer
Essential strategies for translating technical proposals into executive language that drives business decisions.
12.11.2025
Building Adaptive Skills in an AI-Driven Economy: Why Technical Knowledge Isn't Enough
Exploring how adaptability and resilience matter more than technical certifications in today's rapidly changing professional landscape.
11.11.2025
The Hidden Cost of Doer AI: When Teams Stop Thinking Critically
Microsoft research reveals teams using AI for six months show declining critical evaluation skills—here's how to deploy AI that makes you smarter, not lazier.
07.11.2025
Engineering Management Templates and Resources Collection
A comprehensive collection of practical templates and resources for engineering managers and software engineers covering metrics, performance reviews, hiring, and team management.
31.10.2025