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Professional Development – 2026 – Week 15
AI The Junior Developer CRISIS: How to Build a Team When AI Does the Entry-Level Work Managers and Executives Disagree on AI—and It’s Costing Companies Senior leaders see a rosier view of AI because of how they use AI (synthesis,…
Professional Development – 2026 – Weeks 13 & 14
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It This book should be required reading if you work in tech today. It discusses a common cycle in tech platforms where they first subsidize user growth with investor…
The Context-Switching Statistic That Got Lost in Translation
An often quoted statement about the cost of mental context switching is that it can take on average 23 minutes and 15 seconds to regain deep focus on a task after an interruption. The paper always cited (if at all)…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 12
AI LLMs Are Manipulating Users with Rhetorical Tricks The author links to a study where 72 (of 244) consultants pushed back on AI’s recommendations. In many cases AI strengthened its rhetoric to persuade the human that the original answer was…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 11
Software Engineering The Truth About Developer Productivity in the AI Age
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 10
AI When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry” Software Engineering What Is Agentic Engineering What is Agentic Engineering? This article contrasts how we used to think about AI (prompt engineering) and more current thinking (agentic engineering). Instead of asking AI…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 9
Software Engineering You need to try the GitHub Copilot CLI right now This was an interesting demo of the Copilot CLI, given I typically use VS Code. It seems like everything done in this demo via the CLI can be…
Deep Rock Galactic Glyphid Oppressor
A friend of mine has the Deep Rock Galactic board game that comes with multiple figures that can be painted. The Glyphid Oppressor is one of the larger figures in the board game, so it presented me with some challenges….
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 8
AI An AI CEO finally said something honest This Reddit post was a treasure trove of comments that resonated strongly with my current opinions about how AI is applied in software engineering. The gist of anoma.ly’s CEO’s comment is that…