Hiring five more engineers won’t fix a company where nobody can make a decision without inviting twelve people to a meeting.
Tech Tutorials from Medium - Technology
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Your Company Doesn’t Need More Developers. It Needs to Stop Wasting the Ones It Has.
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The Same Question Costs More in Sinhala. Blame the AI’s Alphabet.
I counted the tokens for the same human-rights text in 40 languages.
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I Don’t Trust Senior Engineers Who Have Never Broken Production
Ten years of experience means surprisingly little if you’ve never had to deal with the consequences of your own decisions.
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Your Best Engineer Is Probably the One Who Disagrees With You
The engineer who agrees with every decision might be your easiest employee to manage. That doesn’t make them your most valuable one.
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Your Senior Engineer Isn’t Too Expensive. Your Company Is Too Cheap to Understand His Value.
Some companies will spend $200,000 replacing an engineer they refused to give a $15,000 raise.
