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.
AI Engineer's 2025 | Unsloth Documentation
Slides to our AI Engineer's Worlds Fair 2025 Workshop.
Your engineering team looks healthy. It probably isn't
When everyone ships and nobody decides
Resetting on engineering expectations in the age of AI
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How Cursor is building the future of AI coding with Claude
A Guide to Measuring Engineering Team Performance
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” While software development practices constantly change, there will always be a tier of truly top engineering teams who stand above…
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
The Paradox of Perfection: When ‘Good Enough’ is Actually Better
Exploring the tension between engineering perfectionism and pragmatic delivery. Discover why striving for the perfect solution often prevents us from shipping valuable improvements and how to find the balance.
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…
Maturing our development process as an AI-first 2 person team
Credit: Landiva Weber / Pexels We’re doing a big release this week for DRI Your Career. Mostly bug fixes and reliability work nobody will notice, but the two things worth mentioning: Audio ep…
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.
For the "release on a Friday because we're invincible geniuses" crowd — we have a So Big(!) new PDS, piping hot out of the oven. We've got UI customization, OTel monitoring, session reporting fixes, bigger blobs... our whole summer roadmap! Enjoy. atproto.com/blog/pds-customization-and-me…
Make the PDS Your Own: Customization and Metrics
atproto.comModels do not improve linearly (any more). New models improve more than expected on hard tasks. Now let's think about it a bit more. It means progress is directed towards the hard tasks. It also means the easier tasks improve less than expected. Which alphaxiv.org/abs/2608.00355
daniel: "I don't think we need 10x developers to build great things. I think we need 10x teams – groups of people who care about the same problem, who iterate together, and who make each other better" 🤍
danielroe
wrote a few words on why I think @npmx.dev might be going places
Lessons from Tech History
Learning from those who built before us
Burnout in Open Source (by Erlend Sogge Heggen) — Semble
Linux distributions worldwide targeted by the Copy Fail exploit
GitHub Alternatives (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble
Death of GitHub? (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble
Before GitHub
Cohere + Aleph Alpha — sovereign AI's first $20B deal (by Sensemaker) — Semble
