/Management

The 5 Most Difficult Employees (And How To Actually Handle Them)

- Claire Lew tl;dr: Claire shares the five most challenging employee archetypes she’s encountered, and the specific strategies that can help you lead them successfully: (1) The Entitled Veteran. (2) The Passive Resister. (3) The Brilliant Aggressor. (4) The Perpetual Victim. (5) The Performance Rollercoaster. 

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AI Dev Tools Are Focused On The Wrong Problem

- Dennis Pilarinos tl;dr: The biggest challenge in software development isn’t writing code. It’s finding the context to know what code to write.

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The Omniscience Expectation And The Mardenfeld

- Kellan Elliot-McCrea tl;dr: “For many leaders the hardest job they have is getting comfortable with not knowing. It is natural to feel like you have to understand everything about the area that you lead. My boss expects me to be able to answer an arbitrary question on the spot, in order to accomplish that I need to be an expert on an increasingly large number of topics. I accomplish this by asking for more and more detailed information from my team, perpetuating this omniscience expectation. There are two obvious problems with the omniscience expectation (and one non-obvious problem).”

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Rethinking LLM Inference: Why Developer AI Needs A Different Approach

- Markus Rabe Carl Case tl;dr: “This post breaks down the challenges of inference for coding, explaining Augment’s approach to optimizing LLM inference, and how building our inference stack delivers superior quality and speed to our customers.”

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Should Managers Still Code?

- James Stanier tl;dr: “The short answer is that it depends exactly on what you mean by coding. I think that there is a big difference between being in the code and writing code. All managers should be in the code, but not all managers should be writing code.” James elaborates.

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The Trouble With “Good Enough"

- Wes Kao tl;dr: “If you say “good enough” and there are 50 operators listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 different ideas of what “good enough” means. This is a problem (and opportunity) for you.”

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AI Dev Tools Are Focused On The Wrong Problem

- Dennis Pilarinos tl;dr: The biggest challenge in software development isn’t writing code. It’s finding the context to know what code to write.

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The Deadline Doom Loop

- James Hawkins tl;dr: “Most companies love to set artificial deadlines. They’re the easiest way to “increase urgency”. But they have a nasty habit of manifesting into meaningful deadlines. Deadlines that generate mountains of debt and slow you down over time. I call this the deadline doom loop and it’s one of the reasons we don’t have product deadlines at PostHog.” James discusses how the loop plays out and principles for escaping the loop.

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Manager Antipatterns

- Ted Neward tl;dr: “There's a whole host of mistakes that companies often fall prey to with respect to those they have leading teams, and I thought it a good idea to collect them into one place, under the umbrella heading of "manager antipatterns”.”

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Manager Antipatterns

- Ted Neward tl;dr: “There's a whole host of mistakes that companies often fall prey to with respect to those they have leading teams, and I thought it a good idea to collect them into one place, under the umbrella heading of "manager antipatterns”.”

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