Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix

After spending over a decade in engineering leadership roles at some of the world’s most chaotic innovation factories—Google, Facebook, and Netflix—I’ve learned one universal truth: scaling e…

Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer

There has been more discussion recently on the concept of a “10x engineer”. 10x engineers are, (from Quora) “the top tier of engineers that are 10x more productive than the average” Productivity I have observed that some people are able to get 10 times more done than me. However, I’d argue that individual productivity is... Read more »

In Praise of “Normal” Engineers

Software engineer Charity Majors challenges the "10x engineer" myth, arguing that true productivity lies in team performance, not individual brilliance. She encourages building workplaces where "normal" engineers can thrive. Are we focusing too much on hiring "the best" instead of the right people?

Why AI Makes Things Worse for Enterprise Teams, by Paul Ford

Why are so few engineering teams reaping the benefits of AI? On this week’s episode, Paul presents Rich with the findings from a recent report from CircleCI and

10 More (Leadership!) Lessons from 10 Years Working in a Fully-Distributed and Remote Company

To make a distributed team work in the long-term it takes deliberate planning and thoughtfulness about your culture, leadership, strategic planning, and team-building.

One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment

Why we need collaborative AI engineering and a tour of Ace: the multiplayer coding workspace

How AI Productivity Fails

Why we are not actually 10x more productive (yet).

The Engineering Leadership Report 2026

Our survey of 600 engineering leaders exploring how the role is evolving, where the challenges lie, and what the future holds for the job.

We build AI that works for humans

Imbue builds AI to help people think, create, and build. We share our tools openly because we believe progress in AI should be collaborative and developer-driven

The most successful developers share more than they take - Stack Overflow

After interviewing several developers, a pattern started to become clear: great developers share a lot. This takes different forms for different people, but is very often a blog. But for many top developers, their sharing mindset came before their success, and was the direct cause of it, not the result of it.

Peopleware: productive projects and teams

Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major issues of…

Mahax on Twitter / X

Head of Claude Code, Boris Cherny:"You're not supposed to write code anymore. You're supposed to build a graph that writes itself."In 30 minutes he breaks down how engineers at Anthropic build graphs that write the code, catch the bugs, and ships.Most engineers build… https://t.co/I3b2Rt2ul3 pic.twitter.com/UCPTCr1Sl7— Mahax (@Mahaximus_) September 7, 2026

Pacing consensus

Good development, huge challenge.

I am often wrong

[I shared this note with my team earlier this week, and am posting it here as well. I hope it is interesting or helpful for others working on building product in the age of AI.]

Quality Wednesdays: How we trained our team to see what doesn’t work - Linear

In early 2023 at an offsite in Tenerife, our European engineering team did a series of exercises that ended up changing the way we work.