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Richard Ewing Richard Ewing
Updated on March 05, 2026

Real Innovation Requires Deleting Code, Not Writing It

Too many companies are only focused on how much they can ship. It’s just as important to know when to cut.

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Richard Ewing Richard Ewing
Updated on February 25, 2026

When AI Writes the Code, What Skills Are Employers Hiring For?

Code generation is free now, so employers need to measure engineering judgment. Here’s how.

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Taylor Rose Taylor Rose
Updated on February 24, 2026

How Optimum Product Developers Make Tangible Impact and Build with Purpose

Read how engineering, design, and product folks at Optimum help shape product decisions and company outcomes through a culture rooted in purpose and recognition.

Taylor Rose Taylor Rose
Updated on February 19, 2026

How McMaster-Carr and Belvedere Trading Support Clear Paths to Promotion

Learn how documented competencies, leveling matrices and structured feedback shape employee experiences and career growth at McMaster-Carr and Belvedere Trading.

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Sri Ganesan Sri Ganesan
Updated on February 18, 2026

Software Keeps Getting Smarter. Forward Deployed Engineers Make Sure Customers Keep Up.

As software products become increasingly technical, forward-deployed engineers bridge the gap between your company’s innovation and your customers’ adoption.

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Taylor Rose Taylor Rose
Updated on February 18, 2026

How These Engineering Teams Use AI to Ship Fast, Safely and Meaningfully

See how engineering teams at RapDev, Snyk, Gradient AI and WHOOP measure quality, protect uptime and ship software quickly and safely.

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Taylor Rose Taylor Rose
Updated on February 17, 2026

What It’s Like to Build AI and Automation at Ibotta

Learn how engineers at Ibotta define quality, prevent AI hallucinations and deliver practical automation at scale.

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Richard Ewing Richard Ewing
Updated on February 11, 2026

Is Anthropic’s ‘Cheating’ Scandal the End of the Coding Interview?

In the era of AI coding assistants, interviews that only evaluate a candidate’s ability to generate code are a risk. Here’s what to do instead.

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Amit Patel Amit Patel
Updated on February 06, 2026

Why Spec-Driven Development is the Future of AI-Assisted Software Engineering

Vibe coding can be useful, but to really unlock the power of AI-assisted engineering, you need the persistent context and quality of spec-driven development.

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Taylor Rose Taylor Rose
Updated on February 02, 2026

How an Engineering Director at Advisor360° Drives Platform Strategy, Execution and Team Growth

Bella Kharit shares how she leads a 70-person global engineering org, aligns cross-functional teams and measures success through delivery, quality and feature adoption.

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