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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...
Reckoning
The Steady Beat, Issue #104: the end of tokenmaxxing, reining in AI costs, co...
Groundwork
The Steady Beat, Issue #103: AI pilot failures, swarm orchestration, transfor...
Whose Call?
The Steady Beat, Issue #102: Box's 13 new AI jobs, the manager-to-IC round tr...
Held Together
The Steady Beat, Issue #101: Kent Beck's trust factory, harnessing wild AI, m...
Human Layer
The Steady Beat, Issue #100: Bloomberg's flat engineering culture, why psycho...
Pod Era
The Steady Beat, Issue #99: vibe-coded CEO demos, pod people, AI mentors, the...
Coming Due
The Steady Beat, Issue #98: AI layoff reversals, owned intelligence, AI in in...
Pressure Points
The Steady Beat, Issue #97: agent EAs, Gen Z's AI backlash, QA's new leverage...
Vibes Check
The Steady Beat, Issue #96: tokenmaxxing's trap, AI exposing org cracks, writ...
Invisible Work
The Steady Beat, Issue #95: MCP, agent-shaped users, silent failure modes, th...
Surface Area
The Steady Beat, Issue #94: AI agents as users, trial-based hiring, career ad...
Accountability
The Steady Beat, Issue #93: Vibe backlash, Gen Z opt-out, AI ownership, flatt...
Issue fracking
The Steady Beat, Issue #92: AI tooling shifts, invisible debt, encoded standa...
Overload
The Steady Beat, Issue #91: AI coordination limits, cognitive overload, learn...
Context Costs
The Steady Beat, Issue #90: human context windows, storytelling for technical...
Debt Signals
The Steady Beat, Issue #89: coordination debt, leading with stories, attentio...
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