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This week: We're covering Claude Code workflows for .NET, from Windows setup to giving your repository the right context, plus Vercel Eve authentication, human approval, and integration testing in C#. There's practical reading on becoming an engineering manager, mentoring engineers, and making one-on-ones useful. The videos tackle AI code quality, whether programming languages still matter, growing toward senior and staff roles, and getting support from other teams.
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Weekly Recap
Raising Visibility To Other Teams And Getting Their Support
In this video, I talk about an approach to getting support from another team by raising visibility.
This Is The Project In My Career That I Am MOST Proud Of
From the ExperiencedDevs subreddit, this developer wanted to hear about the projects that people are most proud of in their careers.
Do Programming Languages Still Matter After AI? - Principal Engineering Manager AMA
Now that AI writes all the code and we've all been replaced, does the programming language that gets used even matter? I mean, who's even reviewing these PRs, anyway?!
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What Is The Most Effective Way To Get To Senior, Staff, and Beyond?
From the ExperiencedDevs subreddit, this developer wanted perspectives on the best ways to get to senior, staff, and levels beyond.
How Do We Maintain A High Quality Bar With AI Development?
From the ExperiencedDevs subreddit, this developer wanted to understand how to maintain a high bar for quality when building with AI.
Give Claude Code the Right Context for Your .NET Repository
Give Claude Code useful .NET repository context with solution facts, instruction loading, scoped rules, package conventions, and explicit validation boundaries.
Test Vercel Eve Integrations in C#: Compatibility and Failure Recovery
Vercel Eve testing in C# separates adapter checks from real protocol tests, covering compatible versions, repeated turns, disconnects, and failure recovery.
Feeling Unproductive as an Engineering Manager: Understanding Your Impact
Feeling unproductive as an engineering manager? Understand your impact when you code less, support others, and help the team work without depending on you.
How to Get Useful Feedback in a One-on-One
Get useful feedback in a one-on-one by examining specific work, understanding your manager's observations, and agreeing on next steps without guesswork.
Set Up Claude Code for a .NET Solution on Windows
Set up Claude Code for a .NET solution on Windows, understand native and WSL environments, check SDK visibility, and separate terminal use from IDE support.
Mentoring and Coaching Software Engineers: Building Capability
Mentoring helps software engineers reason, learn, and become more capable. Explore useful support without taking over their work or imposing your ambitions.
Starting With a New Engineering Team: Learn Before You Change Things
Joining a new engineering team? Learn its responsibilities, priorities, and working practices before choosing bounded changes with the people doing the work.
Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents in C#: Approval and Resume with Vercel Eve
Learn human-in-the-loop AI agents in C#: authenticate human decisions, select the correct pending input, and resume Vercel Eve with authoritative resolutions.
One-on-Ones With Quiet Employees: Make Space Without Forcing Conversation
Support quiet employees in one-on-ones with thoughtful preparation, room to respond, useful feedback, and respect for individual goals and personal boundaries.
Claude Code for .NET Developers: A Reviewable Repository Workflow
Learn how Claude Code fits a .NET repository workflow, from solution context and bounded changes to permissions, meaningful verification, and human review.
From Software Engineer to Engineering Manager: Starting Well
Starting as an engineering manager means changing how you contribute. Understand expectations, support your team, and avoid becoming its permanent bottleneck.
Authenticate Vercel Eve Calls from ASP.NET Core: Service Access and User Authorization
Understand Vercel Eve authentication from ASP.NET Core: separate user authorization, service credentials, route access, reconnects, and safe redirect policies.
When One-on-Ones Become Nothing but Status Updates
When one-on-one status updates take over every meeting, restore room for support, feedback, and goals without banning useful conversations about the work.
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