A Scientist’s Guide to Debugging Engineers

Too often, I see smart engineers making their own lives much harder than they need to be.

Dec 23, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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5 engineering dogmas it's time to retire

A few months ago, I wrote about 13 software engineering laws, which are observations about how software projects behave.

Dec 16, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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The 'delayed opinions givers' - engineering teams everybody hates

What happens when you always put your own work first

Dec 2, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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November 2025

Shadow work in engineering teams

And the price your team pays for it

Nov 18, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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October 2025

Give your engineers a kingdom

In too many teams, everything goes through the Engineering Manager.

Oct 28, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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The price of mandatory code reviews

Challenging the unwritten law of software engineering

Oct 21, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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Engineering velocity on steroids

What a 10x team looks like

Oct 14, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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Build your engineering team like a dungeon party

What's your ideal engineering team mix?

Oct 6, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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September 2025

The EM’s guide to AI adoption (without your engineers hating it)

You were told to adopt AI in your engineering team. So where do you start?

Sep 30, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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What's next for manager.dev and for me

A personal update about my career break, the newsletter and the future.

Sep 23, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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$7B startup Head of Engineering and dad of 5 builds a profitable side project

Today is the 4th and final article in the ‘EM-builder’ series.

Sep 16, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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3D No-Code, nights and weekends - a director of engineering’s side project

Today’s article is the 3rd (out of 4) in the EM-builder series!

Sep 9, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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