Do managers shift priorities to make engineers miserable?
Let me share what I've learned, as an engineer who has deep-dived into the business side of the pool, about why priorities change, and how that actually benefits me.
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Stack Overflow Survey: 70% of developers use AI tools for coding, but 3% highly trust their accuracy
The global study questioned more than 90,000 developers on their education, salaries, ways of work, and technologies they love and hate.
The story of fractional CTO: How to become one, who should hire them and why
A fractional CTO brings experience and expertise to the table, working for a fraction of the time and cost as a full-time CTO.
How to develop resilience in the face of layoffs
Even software engineers now have to think about the proactive steps they can make to limit the impact of a possible layoff.
I have 30 years of experience and still need a mentor. You do too.
You're probably imagining the aforementioned mentor as a wise white-haired sensei one step away from retirement, but here's the kicker - it's a colleague 20 years my junior.
Developers’ dilemma: Code from scratch or assemble existing code
More than half of developers, 51%, said they mainly assemble code written by others, and 58% don’t feel that writing code from scratch will be required as part of their roles in the future, says Atlassian’s State of the Developer report.