Bryan O'Neill, CTO of FormAssembly, wrote a piece tracing three decades of the same mistake: - In the 1990s, some companies paid engineers per line of code, and got bloated, unmaintainable software …
No Human Reviewed That Code. Instagram Went Down. Again.
On the morning of Friday 12 June, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads went down simultaneously. Over 100,000 users reported problems within the first hour. The outage ran for around five hours, …
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AI Productivity Metrics: Token Spend Is the New Lines of Code
Your AI productivity metrics are rising. Token spend, PR volume, deployment frequency: all up, all appearing on executive dashboards, all being used by people with authority to make consequential …
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The Engineering Management Route in 2026: My Honest P.O.V.
Someone on my team asked me recently whether they should move into engineering management. Strong senior IC — technically excellent, good communicator, starting to feel the ceiling. Three years ago …
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