Developer Career Growth: The Evidence That Gets You Promoted
Developer career growth requires more than proving you can code. Learn how the evidence shifts from execution to judgment, ownership, and business impact.
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Developer Burnout and Work-Life Balance: Stop Bringing the Problem Home
Developer work-life balance is often treated as a productivity problem. We look for better schedules, better tools, fewer meetings, or another technique for getting more done. However, our second conversation with Gaylen A. Wilson…
Career Reinvention for Developers: Gaylen A. Wilson on Rebuilding Beyond the Code
Career reinvention for developers is usually discussed in terms of learning a new language, moving into leadership, adapting to AI, or finding a new job. Our conversation with Gaylen A. Wilson takes that idea…
Weekly Challenge: Use AI Feedback to Find What You Are Doing Wrong
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 you are…
AI Communication Skills: Salvatore Manzi on Staying Human in an AI-Driven Workplace
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 Salvatore Manzi…
Leadership Communication: Salvatore Manzi on Better Technical Teams
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 most effective…
Problem Solving Process: Show Your Work Before Using AI
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 quickly. That…
Software Delivery Systems: Fix the Process Before Adding More AI
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 execution does…
Developer Systems Thinking: Becoming the Glue Between Strategy and Execution
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. But developer…
Season 29: Build a Career Beyond the Code
Software development is changing quickly. AI can generate code, build prototypes, test ideas, and turn concepts into working software faster than most of us would have imagined just a few years ago. That raises…