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Building a code reviewer from your team's PR history
Github template inside ⬇️
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Anton Zaides ·
The "I don't know, Claude wrote this" pandemic
When Claude drives you off the cliff
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Anton Zaides ·
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The generalist EM's reading list
The generalist EM's reading list
7 books to easily catch up with non-engineering professions in tech (number 3 is a must read)
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Anton Zaides ·
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Surviving in the "chaos management" era
Surviving in the "chaos management" era
More "AI skills" is not what you need right now
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Anton Zaides ·
"okay" vs excellent engineering teams
7 small gaps
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Anton Zaides ·
The un-hateable engineering managers
The lie of Radical Candor and ruining an engineer's day
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Anton Zaides ·
The engineering management memory crisis
For 8 years, my brain was enough. It's running out of RAM
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Anton Zaides ·
The "Negative split" software engineering effect
Engineering teams don't need to 'just go faster' - the technique behind the sub-2-hour marathon
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Anton Zaides ·
Managing a team that didn't choose you
The lie of the 30-60-90 onboarding plan: an honest self-retro after 6 months as an EM
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Anton Zaides ·
The engineering manager's attention budget
Every Engineering Manager has 5 jobs - most distribute their 100 'attention points' across only 2-3 of them
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Anton Zaides ·
Dropping sprints: a year with Shape Up
Reflections on moving from scrum to shape up (and from maintenance mode to high output and happier engineers)
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Anton Zaides ·
Engineering Managers are going to hate OpenClaw
A ChatGPT-like wave of hype is about to hit us, and you should be afraid
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Anton Zaides ·
Explaining, understanding, and data compression
Why super technical engineers and managers suck at explaining their thoughts
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Anton Zaides ·
Software engineering calories: what would cal.ai say about your product?
Most teams have no idea what they're putting into their product
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Anton Zaides ·
The unwritten laws of software engineering
Last April, I wrote a well-received article about the 13 software engineering laws - Hyrum’s, Conway’s, Zawinski’s, and 10 famous others.
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Anton Zaides ·
Engineering Management & Fatherhood - Take #2
In October, I started a new role as an Engineering Manager of an established team (7 strong engineers).
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Anton Zaides ·
Don't become an Engineering Manager
Over drinks a few weeks ago, a friend told me he'd been offered a promotion, to an Engineering Manager role.
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Anton Zaides ·
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Taking just one step too far
Taking just one step too far
A bit crazy approach to engineering management
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Anton Zaides ·
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The Unreachable Engineering Managers
The Unreachable Engineering Managers
A few years ago, my team joined two other teams to work on a big project for the quarter.
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Anton Zaides ·
The Software Games: Endless Grind
What if your career was an RPG?
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Anton Zaides ·
7 Slack hacks for engineers and managers
(Or Microsoft Teams if you are unlucky)
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Anton Zaides ·
Who does what and how to support them
Engineering Management in a sentence
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Anton Zaides ·
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A Scientist’s Guide to Debugging Engineers
A Scientist’s Guide to Debugging Engineers
Too often, I see smart engineers making their own lives much harder than they need to be.
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Anton Zaides ·
5 engineering dogmas it's time to retire
A few months ago, I wrote about 13 software engineering laws, which are observations about how software projects behave.
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Anton Zaides ·
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The 'delayed opinions givers' - engineering teams everybody hates
The 'delayed opinions givers' - engineering teams everybody hates
What happens when you always put your own work first
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Anton Zaides ·
Shadow work in engineering teams
And the price your team pays for it
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Anton Zaides ·
Give your engineers a kingdom
In too many teams, everything goes through the Engineering Manager.
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Anton Zaides ·
The price of mandatory code reviews
Challenging the unwritten law of software engineering
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Anton Zaides ·
Engineering velocity on steroids
What a 10x team looks like
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Anton Zaides ·
Build your engineering team like a dungeon party
What's your ideal engineering team mix?
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Anton Zaides ·