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Interesting, recent trend I’m observing: CTO/ Head of Eng / VPE folks at startups and mid-sized companies are... leaving / burning out. Hiring for these roles is HARD, but even after filling the role, they will often leave a few months later and take a career break. And they have very good reasons! A few I gather…

A couple of trends I'm seeing across the industry. Which ones are you observing that I missed?

Well, Bending Spoons proved this tweet from 2022 right. They bought Miro for $1.3B, and Airtable for $1.2B. Neither was worth as much as they raised at the peak of COVID, and at the end of ZIRP. Bending Spoons, as an Italian company, keeps buying some of the most well-known, but struggling, tech companies: ones tha…

A couple of trends I'm seeing across the industry. Which ones are you observing that I missed?

It might be a bit of a weird complaint to have but with AI agents, that “flow state” during coding is gone (because the coding itself is gone.) Every time I talk with a dev about work now vs before, it seems to come up, like today with a former colleague. Are we over-glorifying it (I mean it wasn’t all roses, it w…

Interesting, recent trend I’m observing: CTO/ Head of Eng / VPE folks at startups and mid-sized companies are... leaving / burning out. Hiring for these roles is HARD, but even after filling the role, they will often leave a few months later and take a career break. And they have very good reasons! A few I gather…