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• Faster than I could think
  Paulo André reflects on the pitfalls presented when LLMs reduce the cost of writing code
• GitHub Actions is the weakest link
  Andrew Nesbitt outlines the multitude of ways that GitHub Actions is insecure by default and gives examples of the compromises in software supply chains that this has resulted in
• GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
  "Package managers are a critical part of software supply chain security. The industry has spent years hardening them after incidents like left-pad, event-stream, and countless others. Lockfiles, integrity hashes, and dependency visibility aren’t optional extras. They’re the baseline. GitHub Actions ignores all of it." — Andrew Nesbitt
• Do I belong in tech anymore?
  Ky Decker on quitting and the spread of AI
• They built Stepford AI and called It “agentic”
  Abi Awomosu on the gendered narratives of AI
• The Vasa
  Tom Geraghty shares some lessons to learn from the sinking of the Vasa nearly 400 years ago
• How to use one of the most valuable management tools: Active listening
  Johanna Rothman on the power of listening
• AI Prototyping: Harder. Worser. Faster. Wronger.
  Anna E. Cook on what we can lose when we use LLMs to build prototypes
• The boy that cried Mythos: Verification is collapsing trust in Anthropic
  Davi Ottenheimer with another reminder that every time you hear a story from an AI companies about the dangers of their products being too powerful that your marketing bullshit detectors should be on full alert.
• Configuration flags are where software goes to rot
  Frank Denis on the negagive impact of configuration flags on maintainability
• Contracting and recontracting
  "In coaching we used to say that most problems could be solved by recontracting, and this is likely true of many, if not most, “people problems” too." — Jade Garratt
• Jessica Kerr: Software is not a craft (or an art)
  "Most of the time what we do has no impact on the world but we can still be proud of the effect we have on people" - Jessica Kerr
• The human weight of it
  Cate Huston reflects on her experience of using AI for coaching between sessions with her human coach
• The git commands I run before reading any code
  Ally Piechowski shares some neat git commands for doing some quick archeology on a project before you start looking at the code
• Asking engineers
  Luca Rossi highlights that good developer experience is almost always about removing friction and reminds us that we have a great resource for finding out what the friction is i.e. asking our engineers
• I’m an introvert. This is how I get myself to speak up.
  Wes Kao with some practical suggestions for how you can make it easier to speak up
• The human cost of 10x AI productivity
  Denis Stetskov shares lots of stats on why AI coding agents are resulting in more work for people, and a much greater risk of burnout
• The alarm that went silent
  Mike Fisher on the dangers of assuming your instrumentation is telling you the whole story
• How we hire AI-native engineers now: our criteria
  Alex Ding, Alyah Sablan, Chris Marty and Vinay Perneti share their views on the skills to hire for now
• An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
  Lenny's interview with Simon Willison about the state of AI in April 2026
• AI 'aha' team meetings
  Lara Hogan's suggested format of a regular show and tells for your team to share learnings and aha moments about how they are using AI sounds worth a try.
• Autonomy is overrated: Why alignment beats autonomy
  Martin Dalmijn on how autonomy is often misunderstood in agile development
• AI and the human voice
  Giles Turnbull on the pitfalls of AI and writing
• ‘Addictive’ agentic coding has developers losing sleep
  Rather than saving time, AI tools often intensify work. Research shows a significant rise in “out-of-hour” commits and weekend productivity, leading to cognitive overload and physical exhaustion.
• Clement Pickering
  Clem works with people at all stages of their leadership journey, whether you’re just starting out in tech, have taken on a team lead role for the first time, or are at a senior leadership or executive level.

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