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In 1970 the US had 300,000 keypunch operators and 176,500 programmers. By 1974, a government survey found 14 of 136 computer sites had merged the programmer and the systems analyst into one job. Full-stack and DevOps came decades later, so merging dev jobs is nothing new.
From episode 3 of Off the Leash, daily dev's podcast for when the headline isn't enough. The full episode is on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
In an RPG you pick a class, and then a build. Software engineering used to have lots of classes, like web, backend and DevOps, each with its own stacks. The take here is that it's all converging into two classes, product engineer and system engineer, and the specialty you have now becomes your build.
From episode 3 of Off the Leash, daily dev's podcast for when the headline isn't enough. The full episode is on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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23 CVEs!!
Unless you live under a rock, you may have heard of all the vulnerabilities found in the last 24h.
Give this to your agent so it can patch your software
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In 2019, about 1% of Hacker News "Who is hiring?" posts asked for a product engineer. By mid-October 2026 it was 9.5%. Linear's CTO says engineers will have to become "mini PMs" who talk with customers.
From episode 3 of Off the Leash, daily dev's podcast for when the headline isn't enough. The full episode is on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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grinding works
building a b2c product means failing every day but once in a while you get a breakthrough, and when it happens it's freaking magical.
for weeks we've been trying to increase the number of shares on the platform. playing around with placements, sizes, options, and so many things with no sucess.
but when we launched the snapshot feature, it finally clicked and number of shares spiked by x2.5!
Is everyone a product engineer now?
@satyanadella says LinkedIn combined four roles and said they're all "full stack builders." Claude Code's creator, @bcherny, thinks we'll start to see the title software engineer go away. On the new Off the Leash, daily dev's podcast, we check that against our own count of every Hacker News "Who is hiring?" post since 2019, and go back to 1974, when the US government saw programmers and systems analysts starting to merge into one job.
Then we get to the second role Nadella named in the same answer, who's still hiring juniors, and what to learn now.
Companies pushed AI with leaderboards, tokenmaxxing and AI use in performance reviews. Then Duolingo took AI use out of its reviews, Amazon shut down KiroRank and Shopify renamed its leaderboard. Even if your company counts tokens, it's still your name on what you send.
From episode 2 of Off the Leash, daily dev's podcast for when the headline isn't enough. The full episode is on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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Who are the most hated people in tech right now? The ones who forward AI output from one chat to another, on Slack, WhatsApp and GitHub, without reading it. They're called meat proxies.
From episode 2 of Off the Leash, daily dev's podcast for when the headline isn't enough. The full episode is on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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