Very good point, @andrew.ssc.

Great article and well written post, Steve! I've been a software engineer for many years. Yes, I have refactored code but not always. As others have said, sometimes I've been...

My theme music I'd like to have playing when I take the stage at a conference is Bound by Purpose by Twelve Titans Music.

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I'm just curious, what skills do they have that they are not sharing? I keep thinking I need to future proof my career by adding some expertise...

I have many years of experience in IT as an employee as well as a consultant.  As I see it you need to hire all of the above.

Hire inexperienced...

This is a hard topic to address and think about. I've interviewed several people to join our team throughout my career, but I've never been a part of a team...

Thank you, Steve, for this article. It brought to my attention that there can be hidden costs related to cloud usage. For example, I wasn't aware that logging or monitoring...

I have a similar problem at work, although I don't work with hardware. I've noticed that over the last 6 months the number and length of meetings have increased. It's...

I'm very sorry to hear of Phil (Andrew's) passing away. I've never had the opportunity to meet him, unfortunately. I have enjoyed reading his articles.

I completely agree with! I've got 5 meetings a day, on good days. I'd much rather GenAI attend those meetings for me, summarize them for me, give feedback for me...

I work in state government in the US. I've never felt like I could ask for a raise. If we get a raise (that isn't guaranteed), then it is always...

Good article and a good reminder to take what we read in the news media, with a lump of salt.

Having said that I still see and experience negative things concerning...

I've enjoyed your story, Grant, and everyone else's here in reply. They're great! I hope that one day I'll be able to hear one of your stories, Edmil.

I'd like to...

Outstanding! Totally loved this!!!

I've never done that before, except for that one. And that one. And that other one. And there's another one. ...

ARGH!!