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  “Before we talk about the staff engineering manager, we need to take a step back and understand how people move up the management ladder. “ https://leaddev.com/hiring/what-staff-engineering-manager-and-how-can-you-become-one

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  “Some of these predictions are just observations, they’ve long been true at companies like Amp. Others will take some time to play out.” https://thorstenball.com/blog/2026/09/19/what-i-believe-about-the-future-of-software-development/

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  “But, and this is my central thesis for this blog post, the user experience as someone who just wants to compile some code and run some tests is terrible. Here’s ten reasons why.” https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/bazels-ux-is-really-really-really

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  “The question ultimately isn’t whether agents and tooling to support them will have a market. It is rather whether that will come at the expense of, or in addition to, markets for human developers.” https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/09/16/new-new-kingmakers/

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  Ultimately the person liable for the factory output is the leader. The creation of double-binds (“go faster” and “own quality”) for people doing the work systematically omits the organization. NASA, Boeing, and GE are all cautionary tales. “so that someone is still on the hook for what happens, and you’re being very explicit about how you think about those things.” https://www.oreilly.com/radar/human-judgment-doesnt-leave-the-software-factory-it-relocates/

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  “Everybody wants instant oatmeal. It doesn't work that way.” - LeBron James Chief Transformation Officer

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  NYT headline: “Is Claude Conscious?” Me: Is the NYT editorial board conscious?

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  This doc provides helpful mental models and points of intervention that are AI-topical, but largely AI-independent. “The disciplines that enable a team to deliver secure, reliable changes quickly are the same ones required to absorb agent-generated work safely.” https://itrevolution.com/product/when-coding-is-free/

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  Shout out to me for keeping my inner voice inside.

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  “Let's start with the obvious one: if you don't know how to represent your property as a logical formula, then TLA+ can't help you. Nor can any formal method.” https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/what-tla-can-and-cant-check/

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  This is already the case: “Traditional product development approaches will not advance pre-AI tools enough to support people in the future.” https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2026/10/02/the-substitution-myth-the-tough-spot-it-puts-us-in/

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  “The Standard-Setter also tends to hallucinate that they have somehow figured out how to motivate *everyone* with their approach, missing that a lot of people don’t respond to pressure, exhortation, or someone else’s intensity. They respond to clarity, trust, autonomy, meaning, mastery, good feedback, and the feeling that their effort is actually connected to something worthwhile.” https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-443-the-standard-setter

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  “The report attributes the incident to two errors: 1. correctly following an incorrect procedure 2. incorrectly following a correct procedure” https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/10/02/there-was-a-light-that-never-went-out/

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  Some do. “Maximizing the utility of a rational actor or a general population is an appealing philosophical goal, but the precise rational calculations are always made about fantasy stories. Economists know this, and proceed with caution.” https://www.argmin.net/p/the-keynesian-subtweet

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  I don’t know who sent this unsolicited SMS text, but I am positive it is not from James Talarico.

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  “In my opinion AWS has never been great at helping people actually do serverless. They’re excellent at the individual building blocks: functions, queues, databases. Wiring it together, getting IAM right, deploying it, knowing what you built once it’s running? That’s on you. It was clunky when I started, and it’s still clunky now.” https://danielleheberling.xyz/blog/pour-one-out-for-infrastructure-composer/

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  On chapter two and already have neck muscle soreness from vigorously and frequently agreeing with Mik. I’ll have to switch up my response for the rest of the book. https://itrevolution.com/product/output-to-outcome/

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  “The single clearest strategic warning from the conference, repeated in different words across security, governance and regulated-industry sessions: agentic AI amplifies discipline and habits — positive or negative — that already exist in an organization. Teams and organizations with weak testing culture, unclear risk ownership or poor documentation hygiene will get worse, faster, not better.” https://www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/thoughtworks/documents/report/tw_future_of_software_engineeri...

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  “This is what I call the Resilience Amnesia Cycle. It is a predictable pattern where organizations systematically forget why they invested in prevention, precisely because that prevention worked.” https://newsletter.resiliumlabs.com/p/the-prevention-paradox

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  This is true for all types of organizational communication. It’s especially critical if that communication is likely to affect delivery timelines. “The real power lies in having a shared language at the company, not in the table’s definitions.” https://www.theengineeringmanager.com/growth/code-yellow-code-red/

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  Flying Blind is an excellent book about the rapid erosion of the engineering culture that sustained Boeing for decades. One of the tangible examples they highlighted was that teams were rewarded for assembly line velocity and individuals who called out quality issues were targeted. https://www.museumofflightstore.org/flying-blind-the-737-max-tragedy.html

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  “I sat in all of those exit conversations thinking I’d hear something different each time, such as a better job offer, a life change, or something I could file away as circumstance. However, all three said a version of the same thing. One of them put it plainly: “I cannot handle this pressure of making things right without any credit for it.”” https://leaddev.com/ai/ai-productivity-is-burning-out-your-best-engineers

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  Today is a day when I need to follow my own "go for a walk" advice.

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  The problem is that the organization didn’t create an environment where those departed people chose to stay and were rewarded for mentoring the next generation. What is the average job tenure for new entrants? Do they see huge comp bumps for “understanding” or for dive-and-save offers? “The problem is that nobody left remembers why the batch job must run in that exact order on the last business day of the month. What died was not the language. It was the context. The decisions. The scar tissue...

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  "The researchers call this the offloading paradox. Offloading can lead to better quality thinking and deeper learning — but only under two conditions..." https://drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/the-cognitive-offloading-paradox

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  Many want to plant. Fewer want to weed. "The model appears optimistic, which is enough to make the whole thing sound temporarily reasonable. Each addition looks manageable in isolation. That is how the Kraken works. It does not attack all at once." https://www.oreilly.com/radar/meet-the-scope-creep-kraken/

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  "I’m using this enormously complex system, an LLM, to help me solve a problem that was created by software complexity in the first place." https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/01/31/ashby-taught-us-we-have-to-fight-fire-with-fire

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  "On one hand, I think it’s absolutely incredible to think that users with all kinds of different disabilities could create their own assistive technology by describing to AI what they need." https://blakewatson.com/journal/i-used-claude-code-and-gsd-to-build-the-accessibility-tool-ive-always-wanted

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  Mik's new book will be released on July 14, 2026 & I'm confident it will be a must read. "In a world of abundant knowledge production, becoming AI native means shifting our organizations’ operating model and our professional focus from building outputs to delivering outcomes." https://itrevolution.com/articles/sneak-peek-at-mik-kerstens-new-book-output-to-outcome

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  JIRA: not a fan