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• Triggers
  We have triggers. The people who work for us have triggers. They can be surprising when you hit them. Rands article is insightful for hpow
• How to successfully onboard remote engineering staff in four weeks
  James Stanier reflects on his experience of onboarding at Shopify and shares tips on how you can think about designing your onboarding experience
• Your junior engineers don’t need an office. They need you
  Kelli Korducki's welcome reminder to explicitly design for the support that your new employees need
• What would make next week better?
  Cate Huston offers excellent advice for when you are feeling overwhelmed
• Performance engineering for everyone
  Elena Tanasoiu & Emma Gabriel offer great advice both on using flamegraphs to diagnose (rather than guess about) performance problems but also on getting insights from real users.
• The reality of being a CTO
  James Stanier shares his experiences of what is involved in being the CTO
• The pitfalls of unlimited time off
  Mathias Meyer shares his experiences of offering unlimited time off, what can go wrong and how to address it
• The Luddites – Rage against the machine
  Origin Story share the story of the Luddites and it is hard not to see the parallels in the dynamics of what is currently going on with LLMs
• Always go with a monorepo
  "Use one repository. Draw your boundaries inside it. Reach for a second repository only when you have a mechanical reason the filesystem genuinely cannot give you, and notice how rarely that turns out to be true." — Kore Nordman
• Berkana Two-Loop Model
  Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze's map for creating change in systems
• Ways to think about token pricing
  Benedict Evans on possible futures on what would have to happen if they are not to become low-margin commodity infrastructure
• The bottleneck was never the code
  Rémi Louf on the value of alignment as the cost of code generation drops
• One weird trick
  Russell Davies shares the power of naming — in this case "bike shedding"
• Running local models is good now
  Vicki Boykis makes that case that local models are good for coding now (if you have a 64GB+ Mac)
• How exactly is doing more AI going to make it better?
  Sergio Visinoni's reaction to two recent popular articles by Charity Majors. Is AI a big deal? Is resistance to AI fundamentalism? Does the solution to the current problems emerge from doing more of it?
• The Worry Police
  "To be blunt, I am confident the Worry Police are doing more damage than good. And to be honest, I know the Worry Police because I’ve been them." — Rands
• Prompt injection as role confusion
  Prompt injections can driven by a flaw in how LLMs perceive roles, and so text can inserted that will be interpreted as the LLMs own trusted internal 'thinking'
• The bottleneck strike again!
  'Imagine the “bottleneck” really was engineering or coding. What does that imply about the competitive game you were playing? Are you saying the only thing holding you back was something relatively commoditized—something you could just hire more people to do? What does that say?' — John Cutler
• The strange confidence of 360 degree feedback
  A critique of the pitfalls that accompany 360 degree feedback processes
• The Power of Stories ✍️
  Luca Rossi interviews Michael "Rands" Lopp about his storytelling
• The sports car theory of LLM adoption
  Rachel Coldicutt reflects on how emotions are playing out in decision making about LLM adoption
• How to work with someone you can't stand
  Amy Gallo offers practical advice on handling these difficult situations
• Why we shouldn't kill the middle manager role
  Ashley Herd makes the case against the 'Great Flattening'
• Cheap turpentine
  David Singleton shares practical advice from his experiences of leading in technology
• Making a new plan
  Cate Huston's reminder that being open about changing your mind does not have to threaten your sense of self

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