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The Steady Beat - Issue 25.01.4
The enduring need for human software development, the pitfalls of DIY RAG sys...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.01.3
Engineering interruptions, a Microsoft branding blunder, the latest product m...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.01.2
Compound AI systems, must-read CS papers for developers, the fall (or not) of...
The Steady Beat - Issue 25.01.1
Humans in the loop, design leadership in the AI era, OKR theatre, and AI real...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.12.3
Hybrid work in 2025, Pentagram leans into AI, all of the Steady product updat...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.12.2
Meetings as art, embracing change in UX, banking tech talent, and managing hi...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.12.1
The "great detachment", taking design queues from engineers, egoless engineer...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.11.4
The 80/80 rule of software projects, sprint completion mythology, working les...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.11.3
The first virtual meeting, writing stories to underpin design, mentoring peop...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.11.2
Eliminating "process debt", product management for unpredictable SaaS, handli...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.11.1
The Gen Z issue: managing, designing, and inserting AI in product development...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.10.4
Coordination tax relief, distrust through sneaky design, breaking team knowle...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.10.3
A rebrand for CSS, under the hood of a browser, leaving big tech, and buildin...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.10.2
Automating just some of the things, staying in the loop through AI, the off-k...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.10.1
The 10X AI coding myth, PM playbooks for persuasion, rebranding Mozilla, and ...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.09.4
QA in 2024, team autonomy, sanding out UI rough edges, and a closer look at a...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.09.3
Managing at Amazon, product management memes, zoom fatique, and AI design tre...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.09.2
Founder mode, how to be a popular engineer, negotiating PM packages, and simp...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.09.1
Innovating via constraints, a better way to inline HTML, spending less time g...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.08.5
Modular organizational design, the history of continuous coordination, differ...
The Steady Beat - Issue 24.08.4
Trusting AI for building UX, Eric Schmidt makes an instantly disputed claim a...
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