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You’re Not Behind. This is Your Problem
A batter way to reset your software engineering career without starting over or chasing every new title.
Jun 8
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Fran Soto
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May 2026
Read this before your org gets cut
Layoffs do not always mean you failed. They often reveal whether your work is visible, funded, and portable.
May 31
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Fran Soto
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The Smallest Reliable Working Set
Bigger context windows won’t fix bad workflows. The real skill is deciding what an agent should load, forget, and persist.
May 24
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Fran Soto
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The token leaderboard trap
AI made coding faster, but not always shipping. Here is how to measure productivity without confusing token burn with value
May 17
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Fran Soto
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Why Open Source Maintainers Are Done With AI Slop
AI made PRs, issues, and security reports cheap. Maintainer trust, review time, and ownership stayed expensive.
May 10
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Fran Soto
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I turned my calendar into an AI-powered time tracking system
I use an AI calendar agent to close blocks, tag work and life, and show the gap between my ideal week and reality
May 6
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Fran Soto
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Why the top GitHub repos are markdown files
A few years ago, the top GitHub repo of the week was usually something you could run.
May 3
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Fran Soto
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April 2026
Is AI making you a worse developer?
Anthropic: AI-assisted juniors score 17% lower. Carnegie Mellon: AI code is 41% more complex. Seven patterns I see on my own team every week.
Apr 26
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Fran Soto
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The engineer AI can't replace
The engineering judgment AI can't produce. What developer taste is, what it looks like in real code, and how to develop it before AI makes the question…
Apr 19
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Fran Soto
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I Deleted Todoist. I Built This Instead
I built an AI agent that manages my tasks through natural language. No app. No clicking. Three seconds to add a task. Here's how to set it up.
Apr 15
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Fran Soto
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AI Security: The OWASP Top 10 LLM Risks Every Developer Should Know
10 risks, one practical checklist. The OWASP LLM Top 10 starts at your keyboard with the AI coding tools you already use.
Apr 12
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Fran Soto
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Harness Engineering: Turning AI Agents Into Reliable Engineers
Harness engineering is how you turn unreliable AI coding agents into production systems. Learn the 4 pillars I used to ship 100+ PRs/month at Amazon
Apr 4
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Fran Soto
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