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A collection of articles and resources worth revisiting.
September 2026
- Agentic Skill Decay | AddyOsmani.com (opens in a new tab)addyosmani.com
If you are just using AI to generate output and generate outcomes, but you’re not using it as a pair, you’re not using it to try improving your critical thinking skills, your knowledge skills, your understanding of how things work, you can end up in this situation where you largely don’t understand how things work, but you’re just good at prompting.
- ai
- learning
- I don't want the details | michaelheap.com (opens in a new tab)michaelheap.com
To drive change in your organization, don't ask "why did this happen?". Instead, ask: What are we changing so that the same class of failure is less likely next time?
- leadership
- You should all be asking way more questions (opens in a new tab)seangoedecke.com
In other words, you should all be trying harder to actually understand what you’re hearing.
- We are all Product Engineers now | Seldo.com (opens in a new tab)seldo.com
What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it precisely, and making it pleasant to use.
- ai
- software-engineering
- What You'll Wish You'd Known (opens in a new tab)paulgraham.com
- life
- Managing friction (opens in a new tab)arslan.io
August 2026
- You have to beat the models at something (opens in a new tab)seangoedecke.com
- ai
- career
- The end of programming — Paul Dix (opens in a new tab)pauldix.com
- ai
- Building without predicting | Derek Sivers (opens in a new tab)sive.rs
- Understanding is the new bottleneck (opens in a new tab)geoffreylitt.com
We don't have to merely take ourselves out of the loop, we can get deeper in the loop too. It's up to us.
- ai
July 2026
- Why Improve Your Writing? · Refactoring English (opens in a new tab)refactoringenglish.com
- writing
- How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read · Refactoring English (opens in a new tab)refactoringenglish.com
- communication
- writing
- Ownership - by Thorsten Ball - Register Spill (opens in a new tab)substack.com
- career
- ownership
- How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti (opens in a new tab)lalitm.com
- career
- LLMs reward expertise (opens in a new tab)seangoedecke.com
The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for.
- ai
- Drunk Post: Things I've learned as a Sr Engineer (opens in a new tab)reddit.com
- career
- software-engineering
- Why I Stopped Arguing With People (opens in a new tab)wangcong.org
- communication
- personal-growth
May 2026
- Wordly Wisdom from Charlie Munger (opens in a new tab)melihdal.substack.com
- personal-growth
April 2026
- The Basics (opens in a new tab)registerspill.thorstenball.com
Make it a goal that people want to work with you.
- career
- software-engineering
March 2026
- Zen of AI Coding (opens in a new tab)nonstructured.com
- ai
- software-design
- The happiest I’ve ever been (opens in a new tab)ben-mini.com
- personal-growth
February 2026
December 2025
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