15 experienced engineers and engineering leaders share their real-world experiences with AI-assisted engineering.
Resetting on engineering expectations in the age of AI
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Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI
How to use AI coding assistants without letting your hard-earned engineering skills wither away.
How I’d start my engineering career today
If you could start your engineering career over today, here’s what actually matters now that AI has made most coding skills nearly worthless.
The Trap of Instant Heroism in the Era of AI
AI has expanded what engineering leaders can do.
Bring a Product Manager Mindset to Your Next Engineering Job
The age of AI demands strong ideas, data driven methods, and experimentation
Engineering managers have a new job description
Why engineering managers are expected to be hands-on again and how AI tools are making it possible to stay technically sharp while still leading.
How to fully automate software engineering
Current AI coding tools assist but don't fully automate software engineering. Better RL environments are what's missing.
Stuck in the middle: Being an engineer & artist in the AI era | Annie Sexton | Offprint
I'm an AI skeptic, through and through. But I also voluntarily use AI nearly every day. So naturally, you might be asking: what the heck?
AI coding wisdom from the people who would know
Essays and threads from experienced developers who've gone deep on AI-assisted coding.
Long live the engineering manager
AI can automate status updates but the engineering manager’s real work of coaching, alignment, and translation is growing faster than AI can replace it.
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
To understand and empathize with how workers in many or most fields outside software experience advances in AI capabilities, I propose a little thought experiment. https://t.co/QZG24aRiBe— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) July 28, 2026
On the Value of Doing a PhD in the Age of AI
Many students who are just now embarking on a PhD in AI are understandably anxious. It feels like our field is zooming forward ever faster. Our clever methods are often surpassed before they are published. Our deep insights seem less critical to frontier lab progress. AI is automating aspects of the research process that used to require years of specialized training.
Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering. All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process. We have no good tools for...
