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The missing discipline between prompt engineering and context engineering - teaching AI systems how to weigh trade-offs like your best employee would.
25.02.2026
Luca Rossi explores why AI-powered productivity might be an illusion, why the hard work debate misses the point, and how strategic quitting is an undervalued superpower.
09.02.2026
Pat Kua explores why CTO roles vary so dramatically and introduces eight archetypes to help organizations and leaders align expectations.
04.02.2026
Exploring how CLI tools promote manager mode thinking, the importance of presenting solutions with problems, and why teams in the 'forest' move faster than those in the 'desert.'
02.02.2026
How top teams balance product generalists with platform specialists, plus practical guidance on documentation in the AI era
26.01.2026
Why AI initiatives fail when enthusiasm from the top doesn't translate to clear budgets, approved tools, and real ownership — and the diagnostic questions that reveal alignment problems before it's too late.
21.01.2026
A personal reflection on the guilt and discomfort that accompanies medical leave, and why believing you're allowed to rest without consequences is harder than knowing rest matters.
20.01.2026
Kent Beck shares a mental model for sustainable connection-building that applies equally to personal relationships and software design collaboration.
16.01.2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Leverage AI to systematically evaluate employee performance and potential, making informed decisions about promotions, development, and team composition.
23.12.2025
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
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
A playbook to position yourself as your team's go-to AI expert, even without a technical background.
03.12.2025
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