Breaking Change

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πŸ”₯HotfixπŸ”₯ is back with a new guest! Scott Werner is the CEO of Sublayer, helps organize the Artificial Ruby meetup in NYC, and is the author of the extremely well-named (and well-written) Substack, Works on my Machine.

In this conversation, we jointly grapple with WTF is happening to programming as a career. Did the unprecedented peacetime the software industry experienced from 2005-2022 make us all soft? Is the era of code-writing agents fundamentally changing the nature of the job? Should we be less like DHH/Matz and more like why the lucky stiff?

We'd love to get your feedback to [email protected] β€” I'll read it all and flag relevant questions and comments for the next Breaking Change.

You can follow Scott Werner online at:

  • Works on my Machine on Substack
  • @scottwernerd on Twitter/X
  • A handful of things we mentioned:

    • There's no AI in Team
    • The Goal book
    • Lean Thinking vs Fat Thinking (a newsletter that draws a different lesson from The Goal)
    • why the lucky stiff (aka "_why")
    • That fireside chat between Matz and DHH
    • Sublayer's product, APM (Actions Per Minute)
    • ...more
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