The Dev Leader Weekly series, sharing candid weekly reflections on career growth, engineering challenges, product dynamics, and life as a working developer.
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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss why I still build side projects and how a thin paid layer helps me actually finish them.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss what a new tech lead should do first when a team is overloaded and quality is slipping.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss when team leads should raise concerns and how early coaching protects the team.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I break down what principal-level scope actually looks like, why impact and visibility feel so vague, and how sustained ownership changes the job.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I break down the three-layer system I've been building so AI agents can scaffold and ship entire projects -- Ralph loops, an orchestration layer, and an optional Spec Kit integration -- and why my template library, not the fancy orchestration, is the real unlock.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I dig into a Reddit thread about engineers reporting directly to a product manager -- the healthy conflict you lose, the career and delivery risks, and how to make it work if you find yourself in that spot.
