Newsletter – Steady

The Steady Beat - Issue 25.03.1

Cancelling tech debt, designing instead of engineering prompts, taste matters, and the danger of hallucinated code that runs.

A software engineering skills check, AI as a usability testing aid, transitioning from UX design to product design, and the AI agent ladder.

1X engineers, context on a cadence, real AI ROI, designing AI responsibly, AGI is a long game, and a day-in-the-life of a developer using LLMs.

Tempering documentation, reclaiming trust, cognitive competence, and dealing with coordination debt.

The cost of context switching, the coordination tax crisis, AI chat as an imprecise coding UI, and "measureship" as an anti-pattern.

The enduring need for human software development, the pitfalls of DIY RAG systems, design anti-patterns, and Agile's role in the Product Model.

Engineering interruptions, a Microsoft branding blunder, the latest product management books, and LLMs drink StackOverflow's milkshake.

Compound AI systems, must-read CS papers for developers, the fall (or not) of Agile, and realistic predictions for AI agents in 2025.

Humans in the loop, design leadership in the AI era, OKR theatre, and AI reality vs. hype for programming.

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