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Introducing the *new* Refactoring! 📱 Today we are making some of the biggest announcements in the history of Refactoring! We are introducing a brand new community platform, available both on the web and as a native mobile app on iPhone and Android 🎉

An important consequence of this is that—counterintuitively—many people will more likely shell $200 on a wrapper that they trust to pick the best model every time, vs a single model provider that may not be the best anymore at some point

Reality is complex but you can follow a simple heuristic: never

Honestly this looks mostly great. There are issues but they seem easy to fix. We shouldn’t fixate on details or the very current state. The direction is amazing IMO

We nailed real-world archetypes for Staff Engineers. Why haven’t we be able to do the same for Engineering Managers (EMs)? Staff+ models (like Will Larson’s book) identify leverage modes: Solver, Tech Lead, Architect, Right Hand. They’re sticky. Scalable. Identity-based.

Great Pod with @vercel founder. Especially interested in the "#react is the last framework claim". Thanks to @lucaronin for great content open.spotify.com/episode/2K73fs…

Alright, here it it after literally years of tinkering, months of research and weeks of writing, re-rewriting, editing, cutting and incorporating feedback, my piece on the Four “Real-World” Foundational Engineering Manager Archetypes is out! Link 👇

Can a platform be simple enough for your first line of code, and yet powerful enough for a global top 30 website? This question is key to understanding the philosophy of Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg), founder and CEO of @vercel, which I interviewed in our latest podcast episode!…

This is not a real struggle, and it is sad that many people have come to think this way. Equality means equality of opportunity, which is *beneficial* to excellence, for the same reason why we fight monopolies. There are *bad* equality policies for sure — but that doesn’t mean…