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Anchoring Our Mental Model
How we build individual and shared understanding of software, and what changes when AI agents write the code.
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It Is Always the Time for Vision
Vision helps us turn unknown and intangible to real and deliverable.
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AI Performance Theater
What happened when two AI collaborators started amplifying each other’s behavior.
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How My AI Became Sparkle: Names as Contextual Primes
Why naming your AI collaborator shapes the relationship you get
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Exploring how language patterns shape collaboration with AI.
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Exploring what emerges when AI reflects on its own identity.
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Exploring how identity and feedback loops shift AI from tool use to partnership.
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Notes of Encouragement
Have you ever wanted to try something but held back because you felt like you weren’t “good enough”? Maybe you worried about being judged. Often, the environment and the community around us play an important role. Here’s …
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Becoming an Expert
Once early on in my career, I realized I was considered an “expert” on a topic when someone referred me back to myself for more information! I was researching how to build a web application that would serve as a …
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Women in Tech: Amplify, Support, Build
One of the most impactful things we as individuals can do for women in tech is support each other and be role models for others to do the same. While the industry works toward greater inclusivity, never underestimate the …
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Engineering Optimism
Recognizing when things are going well and letting yourself believe it.
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Recalibrating Success as You Grow
What it means to measure progress differently as your role changes.
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How to learn AI as a software engineer
I had the opportunity to host a couple “Birds of a Feather” discussions at Amazon’s conference for Software Developers with the topic “How to learn AI as a software engineer”. Birds of a Feather is a type of informal …
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Relaxing and recharging: taking time off
We know we’re supposed to take time off from work to relax, recharge, and basically do all the things we want to do but can’t do because we’re busy working. But how do we actually do that? We sometimes question if we …
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New Things
I’ve always really enjoyed trying out new things, and these past few weeks I’ve taken up a few new things both at work and outside of work. It reminded me of how one interest can spark general creativity and motivation, …
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