Field Guides Tagged as "Career"

Career growth, roadmaps, and the evolving engineering role.

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The 70/30 Engineer

The 70/30 Engineer

The machine does about 70% of the typing now. That part is real, and it's not going back in the box. But the work that's left (guiding the agent, verifying what it produces, and owning the result) is the other 30%, and it turns out that 30% is the entire job. This is a field guide to working that way on purpose: a real, adoptable workflow for coding with agents, built on the AC/DC loop (Guide, Generate, Verify, Solve), grounded in what a year of agentic development actually taught the industry, the wins, the data, and the failure modes nobody likes to talk about. It's for the engineer who wants to be faster without shipping 1.7x more bugs to prove it.

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The Agentic Solopreneur

The Agentic Solopreneur

Every piece of good advice about running a business alone used to come back to one constraint: there is one of you, and you have a fixed number of hours. Don't build software that needs support, because questions scale with customers and you can't hire. Sell content instead, because content is finished once you publish it. That advice was right, and it stopped being right. This is a guide to building a small, durable business on your own in 2026, using leverage that didn't exist when most of the advice you've read was written. One person plus a fleet: a handful of narrow, well-guarded agents handling the parts of a company that used to need headcount, run by someone who stays close enough to the customer to notice when it's going wrong. It covers choosing what to build now that the content-versus-software split has been rearranged, what a fleet actually costs in money and attention, the parts of the job you must never delegate, pricing when your marginal cost of delivery approaches zero, and the specific ways this fails. It includes the year I grossed ten thousand dollars, because a version of this genre that skips to the good part is worse than useless. _This is a living document and will be updated as the tools and the economics keep moving._

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