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Hard Boiled Software is also a newsletter. Essays on product, engineering leadership, and organizational design, written for the person who has to make the call on Monday morning. Selected pieces get pulled on-site with their takeaways attached, like Oh, Estimates and Your Requirements Suck. The full written archive is below.
The training workshop finally gets tools.
Maybe it's more turtle than hare.
Checking documentation the moment code changes.
A powerful example of how people can level up with LLMs using pocket change
The AI stan’s rumors of teamwork’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
How perpetual urgency is sabotaging your most important work.
The best thing to happen to engineers—or the start of a slow erosion of the craft?
Vibing with AI might feel productive in the short term, but watch out for the long-term consequences of trading dopamine hits for deeper learning.
A coach, a programmer, and a product leader walk into a bar...
Our playbook for balancing product delivery with system quality.
But crappy requirements probably aren’t the problem.
Exploring the differences between project- and product-based engineers.