This is cuene.com, and I’ve been making the web smaller, one post at a time, since the 90’s. More about me, here.
Every post I publish represents at least two things I’ve learned: the thing that prompted me to write the post, and the thing I learned in the course of writing it. If I don’t learn anything new while I’m writing, it’s not interesting enough to publish. Source: Blog about things you don’t understand yet
But not just a regular, entry-level IC. I’m talking about employees with no direct reports who can do work that used to take a whole team (all while still getting paid like a leader). I’ve been calling this new role the High-Impact Individual Contributor. Source: IC work is the new career flex – by Elena…
I stopped using the AI chat because it became very clear it wasn’t helpful or healthy, and it was in fact dangerous. But I kept using AI for coding at work, using it to take on more and more of the heavy-lifting to the point where I was just a code reviewer and a quality…