Topic
Engineering Leadership
5 articles
Delegation Without Atrophy
An RCT found AI-assisted developers scored 17% lower on comprehension. The skills that decay are exactly the ones verification depends on — so treat skill maintenance as a managed budget.
July 31, 2026The "AI-First" Memo Won't Save You
Executive AI mandates reliably produce gamed metrics and compliance theater. Mandate the conditions — a funded paved road, friction-killing, outcome metrics, protected skeptics — not the behavior.
July 27, 2026Keep Hiring Juniors. Yes, Still. Especially Now.
The junior hiring freeze is manufacturing a senior shortage. The collapse is mostly macro — and orgs that redesign the on-ramp around specification, review, and judgment will own the mid-level talent pool in three years.
July 22, 2026Stop Watching the Cursor: Managing Coding Agents Like Delegated Work
Background agents moved the game from pair-programming to async delegation, but most teams still babysit. The transferable skill is management — scoped handoffs, review budgets, delegation logs — not prompting.
July 20, 2026Why I Build Startup Teams With Nearshore Talent in Argentina and Brazil
The highest-return decision I've watched founders make isn't a tool or a framework — it's where they hire. Nearshore engineers in Latin America, and Argentina and Brazil especially, have been extraordinary: brilliant, great communicators, and the kind of leverage that lets a small company move like a big one while protecting its runway.
June 1, 2026The Goldwater dispatch
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