Everyone is a Staff Engineer Now - by Engineer's Codex
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Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering.
Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering. I know I haven’t posted in a while! The last issue was How to Write “Garbage Code” (by Linus Torvalds). Claude Code and other coding agents this year have taken a massive leap in skill and ability. As a result, the nature of work for engineering has changed drastically. When execution becomes cheap, the bottleneck moves elsewhere. Skills that once distinguished senior and staff+ engineers, such as architectural judgment, context management, and system-level thinking, are increasingly moving “up” the stack and are becoming…
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