Weekly#713

  • Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers
  • The Brain Sandwich
  • Let Chaos Reign, and Then Rein In Chaos
  • An update from Amazon engineering leadership on the role of the developer in the age of AI
  • The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take (WSJ)
  • The Beleaguered Chip Sellers Getting Their Revenge on Apple (WSJ)
  • The judgment bottleneck: Balancing AI and human speeds in strategy
  • Binance’s $6.3 billion hack: What we know and what comes next
  • “…Prime Video, Amazon’s streaming service, “has emerged as a significant business with a revenue run rate in the tens of billions of dollars and is now profitable in its own right…”
  • DeepSeek Drops Enhanced Coding Agent With Aim to Rival Anthropic
  • Meta Built Humanoid Prototype With Chinese Startup To Ramp Up Robotics Push
  • Designing a Generalized Ads Marketplace Platform
  • The SDLC After AI…AI accelerates software prototyping, but product owners face new constraints around attention, decision fatigue, and evaluating AI-generated software
  • Applying Microservices Lessons to Multi-Agent AI Systems: Service boundaries, API Contracts, State Ownership, Failure Isolation, Capacity Management, Observability