the senior engineer death spiral remember, you are in the reputation-building business, and software is actually downstream of that. buff.ly/6zFKmDc

There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get A business will sink long before code quality reaches a hypothetical floor. Technical debt has no bankruptcy, no clean reset, so metaphors that imply an end provide a false sense of security. buff.ly/UEQGLJx

Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back The personal website is coming back because people are rediscovering something the early Web made obvious: the Internet is more interesting when individuals have places of their own. buff.ly/d6EqAqp

The AI job market in 2026: who gets hired, what they earn, and which roles are fading buff.ly/npri3HI The number of people who can build frontier models at 500 to 1,000 worldwide, with acceptance rates below 1% at OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind.

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Getting Started with Google Agent Development Kit (ADK): Build and Run Your Simple Fact-Checker AI Agent buff.ly/ibbcKlC

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Building an Internal Company Agent: 5 Things We Got Right and 5 I Would Do Differently make the agent visible early, connect it to the systems where context lives, keep access safe, and optimize for something simple enough to maintain. buff.ly/zASBI9p

Humans Are Always the Bottleneck Human-in-the-loop is still essential. Decisions must be made by a human, and I still review and merge pull requests myself. But I want the AI to drive the work and call me into the loop as few times as possible. buff.ly/YPxZTwW

The revolt of the reader This should be on your office wall and shared as a reminder with your team: "We readers shouldn’t be expected to labor to understand a sentence that the writer themselves didn’t work to create." Your credibility is on the line. buff.ly/tKjBtlI

If coding is solved, what now?: Measuring the sloppiness of code | EARENDIL Just because the code is formally correct doesn’t mean that it is not introducing unnecessary abstractions, creating duplicates, or just making bad decisions overall. buff.ly/vERxLYp

The Email Verification API is a proposed standard without OTO or magic links. Instead, the browser will use a user's logged in session to their inbox to create a cryptographically signed token that a server can use to verify the email address. buff.ly/5YykwIS

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You are not a model. Don’t price per token. Charging per token is becoming the default for AI companies. For most AI applications, it is a mistake. The better path is to price at the highest layer of value you can reliably measure, attribute, and defend. buff.ly/CQgkSrO

Cloud Run Jobs: A Beginner's Guide to Running Tasks to Completion on a schedule buff.ly/OpYDLmk

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5 signs that reveal your software development process is agile only on paper and solutions for them buff.ly/zDFFXYL