#Engineering-Culture
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Glue work is still harmful in the age of AI
The post argues that AI has reduced the need for glue work by lowering coordination costs, easing people management, reducing junior hiring, and automating write-only reports.
Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters
The article argues that engineering conflicts often come from different work styles: grifters, believers, coasters, and grinders. Good teams need a mix, and each type has strengths and limits.
The real 10x developer makes their whole team better
The article argues that engineering success depends less on mythical 10x developers and more on social learning communities and communities of practice that help entire teams learn, share knowledge, and perform better.
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
The post argues that teams often reward overbuilt systems because complexity looks more impressive in interviews, reviews, and promotion packets, while simple work stays hard to see.
Technical debt 101
The article argues that technical debt is a conscious design trade-off, not simply bad code, and that neglecting quality creates long-term costs, legacy code, and cultural damage.