Latest tech news and insights curated from newsletters
Austen McDonald, former Meta hiring committee chair, shares why behavioral interviews matter more than ever and how to approach them as both candidate and interviewer.
20.02.2026
PwC invested $1 billion in AI training across 75,000 employees, achieved 95% voluntary adoption, then laid off 1,500 people. This is what the AI upskilling paradox looks like in practice.
19.02.2026
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 Kilo flips traditional engineering by having each engineer own a growth metric, manage AI agents, and drive their product area end-to-end.
01.02.2026
A practical technique for engineering leaders to surface friction points by interviewing engineers and mapping insights to the development pipeline.
28.01.2026
How top teams balance product generalists with platform specialists, plus practical guidance on documentation in the AI era
26.01.2026
A deep dive into how a 100-person distributed team across 40 countries built one of the world's most beloved productivity tools while staying bootstrapped and profitable.
23.01.2026
A deep dive into intent-driven AI interfaces, comprehensive UX audit practices, building design systems for engineers, and the lost art of problem framing in product teams.
21.01.2026
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
The chat era is ending - AI tools now expect delegation, not conversation. But without understanding your team's behavioral patterns and business context, these AI coworkers will fail.
19.01.2026
Exploring what good context really means for both AI and humans, the Accelerate capabilities that drive delivery performance, and wisdom from Redis creator on career choices
19.01.2026
Kent Beck shares a mental model for sustainable connection-building that applies equally to personal relationships and software design collaboration.
16.01.2026
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
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
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
Deep dive into how engineering teams are actually adopting AI tools, revealing the gap between personal and team adoption.
05.12.2025
An analysis of AI adoption in engineering teams, covering personal vs. team use, documentation as a secret weapon, managing AI context in codebases, and the evolving UX of AI coding tools.
05.12.2025
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
DORA research reveals that 90% of engineers use AI tools, but self-reported productivity gains may be illusory—a productivity placebo effect that masks real bottlenecks and quality traps.
26.11.2025