Articles by kiyanwang
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The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind (viktorcessan.com)

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Relocating Rigor (leaflet.pub)

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The Protégé Problem Today (proofofconcept.pub)

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Don't Let Your Boss Do Your Job (kevingoldsmith.substack.com)

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A Practitioner's Guide to AI-Assisted Development (perevillega.com)

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Big tech engineers need big egos (seangoedecke.com)

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"Good Taste" Is Just Experience (terriblesoftware.org)

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Why Your Engineering Team Is Slow (It's the Codebase, Not the People) (piechowski.io)

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Twitching Before You Sprint (mikefisher.substack.com)

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Architecture Is Not a Blueprint. It's a Set of Decisions (scottmillett.medium.com)

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When should a manager step in? – dein.fr (dein.fr)

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How to earn credibility with engineers (lessons from a college radio station) (jimgrey.net)

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Exploit vs. Explore – By Mike Fisher – Fish Food for Thought (mikefisher.substack.com)

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Production Is Where the Rigor Goes (honeycomb.io)

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How to Kill the Code Review – By Ankit Jain – Latent.Space (latent.space)

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TBM 406: Seeing Everything, Understanding Nothing (The Context Trap) (cutlefish.substack.com)

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The Reason Most People Are Terrible Communicators (and How to Fix It) (alifeengineered.substack.com)

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Management in the Age of AI – Stay SaaSy (staysaasy.com)

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AI Won't Replace Innovation (aspiringforintelligence.substack.com)

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How Do You Know If You're a Good Leader? (mikefisher.substack.com)

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The invisible foundation of engineering transformation (jimgrey.net)

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Productivity and Entropy (subbu.org)

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How to instantly be better at things (usefulfictions.substack.com)

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Avoiding a Culture of Emergencies (staysaasy.com)

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GSD for Claude Code: A Deep Dive into the Workflow System (codecentric.de)

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The Complicators, the Drama Aggregators, and the Avoiders (randsinrepose.com)

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[flagged] Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents (stripe.dev)

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The LLM Context Tax: Best Tips for Tax Avoidance (nicolasbustamante.com)

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Large tech companies don't need heroes (seangoedecke.com)

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Three Bad Managers (randsinrepose.com)

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Autonomy and Clarity in Leadership Styles – Bjorg (bjornroche.com)

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I Bankrupted Two Companies (philmckinney.substack.com)

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Should you include engineers in your leadership meetings? (lethain.com)

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Promoting AI Agents (world.hey.com)

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Software Acceleration and Desynchronization (ferd.ca)

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Think of Pavlov (boz.com)

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AI Systems Engineering Patterns – Alex Ewerlöf Notes (alexewerlof.com)

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Moving Away from Agile: What's Next? (youtube.com)

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Outcomes > Learning Opportunities – By Shreyas Doshi (shreyasdoshi.substack.com)

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Six New Tips for Better Coding with Agents (steve-yegge.medium.com)

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The Death and Rebirth of Programming – The Phoenix Architecture (leaflet.pub)

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Engineering dogmas it's time to retire (manager.dev)

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The Bet on Juniors Just Got Better – By Kent Beck (tidyfirst.substack.com)

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The Compensation Commandments (staysaasy.com)

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Designing Team Traditions That Fit Your Team (christiecosky.com)

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How to Not Be Replaced by AI (maxberry.ca)

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Prompts Are Broken (godofprompt.beehiiv.com)

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How to Be Exceptional at Anything (abdulhamidhassan.com)

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Traits of a Good Tech Lead (world.hey.com)

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When software becomes fast food (world.hey.com)

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The Performance Inequality Gap (infrequently.org)

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Elided Branches: Revisiting Manager READMEs (elidedbranches.com)

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The Success Trap – By Mike Fisher (mikefisher.substack.com)

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Why Does Development Slow? (tidyfirst.substack.com)

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All you can do is play the game (benn.substack.com)

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AI is a new computing paradigm – Karpathy (threadreaderapp.com)

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Conscious Debugging: 10 Effective Strategies That Work (thetshaped.dev)

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"Good engineering management" is a fad (lethain.com)

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Become the Consequence (randsinrepose.com)

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Councils of Agents (theengineeringmanager.substack.com)

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Pivots, Paths, and Prototypes (debliu.substack.com)

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Thinking Clearly (lemire.me)

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Measuring Engineering Productivity (justoffbyone.com)

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What Happens When You Press 'Send' to ChatGPT (bytebytego.com)

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What if hard work felt easier? (jeanhsu.substack.com)

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HP's Innovation Spirit and How It Died (philmckinney.substack.com)

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Prioritization Starts with Strategic Prioritization (cutlefish.substack.com)

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Team dynamics after AI – Mechanical Survival (mechanicalsurvival.com)

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The Continual Learning Problem (jessylin.com)

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Team Dynamics After AI (mechanicalsurvival.com)

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Real AI Agents and Real Work (oneusefulthing.org)

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Useful Engineering Management Artifacts (bjornroche.com)

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The Self Is the Platform (workingtheorys.com)

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The Extreme Inefficiency of RL for Frontier Models (tobyord.com)

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Why Are Event-Driven Systems Hard? (scalablethread.com)

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Software Engineers Make Productive Decisions (without slowing the team down) (strategizeyourcareer.com)

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How can I influence others without manipulating them? (andiroberts.com)

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Leaders Can Frame Messages for Influence (medium.com/onebigthought)

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Study and Update on GenAI DevEx – CloudKitchens (cloudkitchens.com)

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AI Companion Futures (osmarks.net)

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What Every Parent Should Know About the AI Future (debliu.substack.com)

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Tech companies measure the impact of AI on software development (pragmaticengineer.com)

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TBM 377: Time Allocation ≠ Capacity Allocation (cutlefish.substack.com)

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Scaling with Prometheus: Managing 80M Metrics Smoothly (kapillamba4.medium.com)

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We sped up code search for Graphite Chat (graphite.dev)

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Agentic AI has changed my career (medium.com/elliotgraebert)

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Why retention is so hard for new tech products (andrewchen.substack.com)

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Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering (hodgkins.io)

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Build Places, Not Products (every.to/source-code)

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The Last Programmers? (xipu.li)

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Don't Build an AI Safety Movement (antonleicht.me)

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How can I deal with a team member who is always complaining? (andiroberts.com)

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The Babysitter Problem (chrisbeckman.dev)

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AI Artists vs. AI Engineers (frontierai.substack.com)

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Agentic Design Patterns (docs.google.com)

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Ethics in AI: The New Frontier for Product Managers (prodpad.com)

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Why Relying on LLMs for Code Can Be a Security Nightmare: Terminal (himanshuanand.com)

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The Cost of Slow Feedback Loops (revontulet.dev)

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Just People in a Room (bonnycode.com)

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Oh goody, the 'first known AI-powered ransomware' has been discovered (pcgamer.com)