April 19th, 2026

Articles of the week

This week I picked up these articles:

I really liked the scenarios James came up with or thinks about. But I kind of disagree with the first one. If in the future there aren't senior devs who know how to solve the problems, at that point the AI will become so much better than it is now, every company will have built knowledge bases for AI and the "seniors with scar tissue" won't be needed as much. I also simply don't think this will happen at all, I fully bet that there will be seniors in the future, they'll just simply be a different kind of senior to the seniors the industry has seen in the past.
The scenario I also think we'll have in the future is the third one, this is just one more level of abstraction for us developers, sure it's a lot different, but it's the same underlying concept. Developers now are writing code in a different way, and having to learn a new tool; AI.
I really liked all the things he says folks should be doing though, regardless of whether this goes, I think it's good for everyone to try to help others, especially mid and senior level developers.

Who could have seen it coming? Even at my company I am already seeing it. When you push metrics that don't make sense, such a number of commits, number of PRs merged, number of tokens used, people will just game the system.
I wish leadership came up with better metrics to capture. It might be a little bit more difficult but how about instead of checking token usage, leadership at each team/organization captures the outputs people are achieving? The faster they are getting because of AI? Other things like that?

Cate Hall's writing is so inspiring, she recently became my favorite author.

This article talks about a system you can use to think about burnout, I found it super good and useful to even test it right away for yourself.
For this system to be useful to anyone though, I feel like you need to know what you like and what your mind needs to be rewarded, otherwise how do you even reward yourself? I am at a point in my life where I've changed so much in the past year and a half that I don't really know what to reward myself with.

I've contributed to open source projects very few times, and it's never been something huge. But a friend of mine shared this with me and I really liked it. S/O Devan - A good friend of mine and serious open source contributor!

I realized reading this blog that I have usually followed my curiosity but mostly at work, for some reason I feel inclined to learn there. Outside of work I do it, but less technical I guess? I usually read about career growth and self growth but I'm trying to become more curious when it comes to technical topics like that.