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The Steady Beat, Issue #121: reviewers who stop reading, the soul behind the ...
New: Check-ins and goal updates in Slack
Write your check-ins and updates where the reminders land.
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The Steady Beat, Issue #120: the end of Amazon's six-pager, toil vs. struggle...
Go around
The Steady Beat, Issue #119: going around teams, a farewell to coding, predic...
Not the job
The Steady Beat, Issue #118: happy teams vs. good teams, more AI fatigue, mea...
Pencils down
The Steady Beat, Issue #117: the end of coding by hand, Rails as notation for...
Just AI it
The Steady Beat, Issue #116: safety by proxy, remote work and AI adoption, lo...
The tab
The Steady Beat, Issue #115: danger is a marketing frame, rationing tokens, 2...
Cow paths
The Steady Beat, Issue #114: superintelligence is a fairy tale, waterfall mak...
Look up
The Steady Beat, Issue #113: culture carries the second transformation, Asks ...
New: Asks
One-off questions about your team’s work, answered on the spot.
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The Steady Beat, Issue #112: MIT rethinks learning, agents are just software,...
What are the different types of AI agents?
A plain-language guide to classifying AI agents by work scope and autonomy, p...
Pull up a chair
The Steady Beat, Issue #111: agents join the team, founder mode expires, rebu...
New: Agent teammates
AI agents can now join your Steady teams as first-class members.
Role call
The Steady Beat, Issue #110: player-coach managers, the wrong reasons to mana...
On the hook
The Steady Beat, Issue #109: agent liability, managers of agents, conductor d...
Pencils out
The Steady Beat, Issue #108: refactoring's token dividend, the quality parado...
Speed tax
The Steady Beat, Issue #107: the FDE gold rush, productivity illusion, local ...
Eyes open
The Steady Beat, Issue #106: staying technical as a manager, AI code scrutiny...
Rewritten
The Steady Beat, Issue #105: how developers really feel about AI, engineering...