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Kimi CEO Zhilin Yang argues that organizational structure is more critical than the AI model itself, drawing parallels to Intel's history and emphasizing the scaling of long context as a key advantage.
The Psychology of Software Teams by Cat Hicks offers an evidence-based guide to improving developer productivity and team culture, challenging traditional metrics and emphasizing social learning and psychological safety.
Dit artikel vergelijkt twee benaderingen van probleemoplossing in organisaties aan de hand van een kapot toilet, en trekt een parallel naar IT-beheer binnen de Nederlandse overheid. Het illustreert de bureaucratische vertragingen versus een pragmatische aanpak.
An article exploring how different personality archetypes (cowboys, frontiersmen, settlers, townspeople, cityfolk) align with varying levels of organizational chaos at different stages of company growth, drawing from Wardley's Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners framework.
Charity Majors argues that both AI enthusiasts and AI skeptics on software teams are correct in their concerns — enthusiasts fear being outcompeted, skeptics fear technical debt and loss of institutional knowledge — and that the core challenge is designing organizational feedback loops to bridge their diverging realities.
Anthropic employee Fiona shares the company's way of working: code is no longer the bottleneck, processes are simplified, teams are flat, and product managers first act as individual contributors. The article also compares the software delivery approach of early Microsoft, which relied on CDs.
Blog post argues that good software architecture should be self-evident and frictionless, advocating Netflix/Spotify-style “paved road” patterns over coercive governance boards or embedded architects.