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Weekly Challenge: Use AI Feedback to Find What You Are Doing Wrong

September 25, 2026 • Career beyond the code

AI feedback can do more than help us move faster or reinforce ideas we already have. This week’s Weekly Challenge asks you to use AI differently: ask it to tell you what…

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AI Communication Skills: Salvatore Manzi on Staying Human in an AI-Driven Workplace

September 24, 2026 • Career beyond the code

AI communication skills are becoming increasingly important as developers and leaders rely on artificial intelligence to summarize meetings, draft emails, organize ideas, and prepare for conversations. These tools can save time, but…

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Leadership Communication: Salvatore Manzi on Better Technical Teams

September 22, 2026 • Career beyond the code

Leadership communication becomes increasingly important as developers move beyond writing code and begin leading people, projects, and technical decisions. Being the smartest person in the room does not automatically make you the…

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Problem Solving Process: Show Your Work Before Using AI

September 18, 2026 • Career beyond the code

The problem solving process has always been an important part of software development, but AI has made it even more important. Developers can now move from an idea to generated code incredibly…

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Software Delivery Systems: Fix the Process Before Adding More AI

September 17, 2026 • Career beyond the code

AI can produce code faster, automate repetitive work, analyze enormous amounts of information, and move development tickets at a pace that would have seemed impossible only a few years ago. Yet faster…

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Developer Systems Thinking: Becoming the Glue Between Strategy and Execution

September 15, 2026 • Career beyond the code

Software development careers have traditionally been measured by technical ability: the languages you know, the systems you can architect, the bugs you can solve, and the quality of the code you produce.…

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