Articles by kiyanwang
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How to Be Exceptional at Anything (abdulhamidhassan.com)

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Traits of a Good Tech Lead (world.hey.com)

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When software becomes fast food (world.hey.com)

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The Performance Inequality Gap (infrequently.org)

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Elided Branches: Revisiting Manager READMEs (elidedbranches.com)

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The Success Trap – By Mike Fisher (mikefisher.substack.com)

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Why Does Development Slow? (tidyfirst.substack.com)

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All you can do is play the game (benn.substack.com)

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AI is a new computing paradigm – Karpathy (threadreaderapp.com)

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Conscious Debugging: 10 Effective Strategies That Work (thetshaped.dev)

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"Good engineering management" is a fad (lethain.com)

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Become the Consequence (randsinrepose.com)

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Councils of Agents (theengineeringmanager.substack.com)

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Pivots, Paths, and Prototypes (debliu.substack.com)

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Thinking Clearly (lemire.me)

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Measuring Engineering Productivity (justoffbyone.com)

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What Happens When You Press 'Send' to ChatGPT (bytebytego.com)

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What if hard work felt easier? (jeanhsu.substack.com)

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HP's Innovation Spirit and How It Died (philmckinney.substack.com)

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Prioritization Starts with Strategic Prioritization (cutlefish.substack.com)

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Team dynamics after AI – Mechanical Survival (mechanicalsurvival.com)

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The Continual Learning Problem (jessylin.com)

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Team Dynamics After AI (mechanicalsurvival.com)

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Real AI Agents and Real Work (oneusefulthing.org)

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Useful Engineering Management Artifacts (bjornroche.com)

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The Self Is the Platform (workingtheorys.com)

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The Extreme Inefficiency of RL for Frontier Models (tobyord.com)

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Why Are Event-Driven Systems Hard? (scalablethread.com)

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Software Engineers Make Productive Decisions (without slowing the team down) (strategizeyourcareer.com)

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How can I influence others without manipulating them? (andiroberts.com)

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Leaders Can Frame Messages for Influence (medium.com/onebigthought)

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Study and Update on GenAI DevEx – CloudKitchens (cloudkitchens.com)

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AI Companion Futures (osmarks.net)

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What Every Parent Should Know About the AI Future (debliu.substack.com)

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Tech companies measure the impact of AI on software development (pragmaticengineer.com)

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TBM 377: Time Allocation ≠ Capacity Allocation (cutlefish.substack.com)

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Scaling with Prometheus: Managing 80M Metrics Smoothly (kapillamba4.medium.com)

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We sped up code search for Graphite Chat (graphite.dev)

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Agentic AI has changed my career (medium.com/elliotgraebert)

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Why retention is so hard for new tech products (andrewchen.substack.com)

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Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering (hodgkins.io)

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Build Places, Not Products (every.to/source-code)

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The Last Programmers? (xipu.li)

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Don't Build an AI Safety Movement (antonleicht.me)

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How can I deal with a team member who is always complaining? (andiroberts.com)

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The Babysitter Problem (chrisbeckman.dev)

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AI Artists vs. AI Engineers (frontierai.substack.com)

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Agentic Design Patterns (docs.google.com)

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Ethics in AI: The New Frontier for Product Managers (prodpad.com)

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Why Relying on LLMs for Code Can Be a Security Nightmare: Terminal (himanshuanand.com)

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The Cost of Slow Feedback Loops (revontulet.dev)

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Just People in a Room (bonnycode.com)

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Oh goody, the 'first known AI-powered ransomware' has been discovered (pcgamer.com)

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In Search of AI Psychosis (astralcodexten.com)

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Why I'm Against Claude Code's Grep-Only Retrieval? It Just Burns Too Many Tokens (milvus.io)

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Too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor (ghuntley.com)

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Context Engineering ( RAG 2.0): The Next Chapter in GenAI (medium.com/ramakrishna.sanikommu)

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Why Stacking Sliding Windows Can't See Far (guangxuanx.com)

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"RAG Is Dead, Context Engineering Is King" (latent.space)

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How to Fix Your Context (dbreunig.com)

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Partner with Product to pay down technical debt (jimgrey.net)

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Managing engineers more experienced than you (emdiary.substack.com)

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The Quiet Revolution: Offline LLMs and the Future of Private AI (substack.com)

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Build vs. Buy in the Age of AI (svpg.com)

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Communication Is the Job (boz.com)

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Ban ChatGPT (benn.substack.com)

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APIs don't make good MCP tools (reillywood.com)

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Embedding Text Documents with Qwen3 (daft.ai)

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The Politics of Software (molochinations.substack.com)

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Support Systems: Mentoring, Coaching, and Therapy, What Sets Them Apart (humansinsystems.com)

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How Do Committees Fail to Invent? (infrequently.org)

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Effective Positioning for Engineering Managers (maruz.medium.com)

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GitHub's internal playbook for building an AI-powered workforce (resources.github.com)

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Research: The Penalty of Using AI at Work (hbr.org)

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What Do You Mean? (quarter--mile.com)

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GPT-5 Prompting Guide (cookbook.openai.com)

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Why your brain is the biggest bottleneck in AI productivity (jennywanger.com)

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High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups (techcrunch.com)

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Code for BLT research paper: Meta find way to bypass tokenization (github.com/facebookresearch)

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Why Remote Managers Burn Out Without Knowing It (medium.com/engineering-managers-journal...

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AI's "Just Ship it." problem (leahtharin.com)

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Clear Thinking (perspectiveship.com)

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Drift Can Derail an Organization (novakkevin.medium.com)

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Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping (techcrunch.com)

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Trust in AI coding tools is plummeting (leaddev.com)

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Where to find ideas (howtogrow.substack.com)

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Writing a good design document (grantslatton.com)

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How to be a wise optimist about science and technology? (michaelnotebook.com)

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Encore Anxiety (workingtheorys.com)

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China claims Nvidia built backdoor into H20 chip designed for Chinese market (arstechnica.com)

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Learning the Bitter Lesson (rlancemartin.github.io)

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The Edge of Competence (ordep.dev)

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Sources of Truth (cutlefish.substack.com)

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The Cost of Being Wrong – Jack Vanlightly (jack-vanlightly.com)

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Specificity: A Weapon of Mass Effectiveness (asmartbear.com)

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Tokens: The New Oil – By Kent Beck (tidyfirst.substack.com)

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"ChatGPT Psychosis" and LLM Sycophancy (minihf.com)

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Social Capital: The Compound Interest of Your Engineering Career (rafapaez.com)

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Accountability (fffej.substack.com)

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It Takes Two to Tango (avivbenyosef.com)