– twilson.net – Edit
Tom Wilson reflects on what AI is changing for design engineers, and where human judgment still matters. He argues that agents can take over more of the scaffolding work, while product taste, restraint, and polished visual craft remain the real edge.
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– albertoarena.it - submitted by Alberto Arena – Edit
An essay on how AI-assisted development turns engineers into full-time reviewers. We spend our days evaluating AI-generated diffs instead of writing code, and that shift carries a new cognitive fatigue and may widen the senior/junior gap.
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– shubhamjain.co – Edit
Many programmers believe they are tired of programming, but they may actually be frustrated with bureaucracy, lack of product vision, and lack of ownership. Burnout can skew perspectives, and it may be more beneficial to address these issues rather than abandoning programming entirely.
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Brent Roose has written an excellent book. This time on his programming journey and the lessons learned along the way. It's not too long, I personally read it in one sitting, and liked it very much.
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The current hiring process for engineers is flawed, wasting time and failing to differentiate between skilled candidates and those using AI.
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– justin.searls.co – Edit
It looks like full-breadth developers—people with both technical and product capabilities—stand to gain as clear winners in the AI era.
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– www.moisis.dev - submitted by Moisis Hadjiagathangelou – Edit
After more than 9 years working with Laravel—leading a dev team and architecting solutions—I still sometimes feel like I’m not doing enough.
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Lessons learned from contributing to open source software projects.
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An important post by Nico.
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– themsaid.com – Edit
An important post by Mohamed Said.
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Josh Comeau argues that AI won't take away any front end jobs soon.
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– baspa.dev - submitted by Bas van Dinther – Edit
Learn about imposter syndrome, its causes and how to combat it in the field of programming.
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– calebporzio.com – Edit
A post by Caleb Porzio that resonated with me. I'm pretty sure that every creator feels this way at some point in time.
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– codefol.io – Edit
A brilliant post by Noah Gibbs with some good insights in what it means to be a developer and the things you should focus on.
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– laracasts.com – Edit
In this excellent, humanly written blog post, Laracasts founder Jeffrey Way offers some good tips for applying at any company.
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Lisi Hocke on the challenges she faced the past few months during the pandemic. At the end of the post, she gives a few list of recommendations you can try to prevent a burn out.
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– themsaid.com – Edit
Mohammed Said wrote some thoughts on FOMO that resonate with me.
It's a constant pressure on me, and I can imagine how hard it can be on people newly joining the career. In my early days it wasn't that bad, things weren't moving that fast, but nowadays it's crazy.
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– justinjackson.ca – Edit
Justin Jackson wrote a cool post on the benefits of public speaking.
As a geek, there's one skill that's helped me level-up professionally more than anything else: public speaking. Whether it's doing product demos, presenting an idea to my team, or being on a podcast, it's a skill I benefit from every day. But the biggest opportunities have come from giving talks.
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Here's a video of an excellent talk by Chris Hartjens he recently gave at NomadPHP. Don't have time to watch and prefer to read a summary? This blogpost by Michael Heap has got you covered: https://michaelheap.com/how-to-ruin-a-career-in-10-easy-minutes/
