The article argues that managers function as catalysts in technology organizations by lowering the activation energy needed for change, and that recent industry trends declaring management dead have backfired—notably at Facebook, where dramatic manager reductions led to a 40% increase in incidents and declining team sentiment despite higher code output. The author contends that good management has become essential as the industry moves beyond the easy-growth 2010s.
AI is automating entry-level engineering work, creating a future shortage of senior engineers. Companies must invest in mentoring junior engineers now or face a workforce crisis in a few years, as the traditional pipeline for developing seniors through hands-on learning disappears.
X posts from September 18, 2026 discuss MoE inference engineering and Kyber Network's trading philosophy. The posts garnered moderate engagement with likes and replies.
Diogo Almeida and team released Jev, a new frontier AI model trained using RLCD methodology, which outperforms Astra, Fable, and Opus on radiofrequency engineering tasks with claimed 20-200x faster performance.
An engineer from Pune reflects on his 14-year career path, beginning with a two-year gap after leaving his degree to work assembling computers. He describes how this detour—working with his friend building and selling PCs, and witnessing his sister's IT career—ultimately led him to software engineering, shaped by family influence and early mentors.