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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 ...
Show your work
The Steady Beat, Issue #112: MIT rethinks learning, agents are just software,...
Pull up a chair
The Steady Beat, Issue #111: agents join the team, founder mode expires, rebu...
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...
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...
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