Career development, soft skills, and professional growth in tech
I got promoted twice in three years, and the work didn’t change. Unreported work is invisible state: as far as the system is concerned, it is not running. Making your work visible isn’t marketing, it’s instrumentation — and it decays.
Your Work Has No TelemetryI used AI more last year than in any year of my career, and got quietly worse at my job. AI skill atrophy is quiet. You only notice when something breaks. The pendulum, and the three habits that keep it swinging.
The Pendulum: How to Use AI Without Losing Your EdgeI approved my own PR and felt nothing. Over-delegating to AI didn’t just make my work fragile — it made it boring. The fix wasn’t using less AI. It was flipping who leads.
Don’t Automate the FunIn 1982 skaters named a trick “the impossible” because the physics said it couldn’t exist. Decades later a 1000fps camera revealed why it can — and what that has to do with your job as a developer.
AI Didn’t Take Your Job – It Revealed ItMeta is installing tracking software on its employees’ work computers. Not for security. Not for compliance. For training data. Mouse movements. Keystrokes. Screenshots. All fed into AI models so agents…
We’re Not Being Replaced by AI. We’re Being Asked to Train It.AI fluency is becoming the most important skill in software development — but the models and tools needed to build it cost real money. The access gap is creating a two-tier developer class.
The Most Important Skill in Tech Is Too Expensive to Learn
