Stuck in the Filter - W46
2025-11-14
These links for various reasons didn't make it into my public content. They come in many different formats and cover a range of topics that I found interesting or useful. Whether they were too niche, incomplete, or simply didn't fit the overall flow, these links are still valuable resources for some reason they caught my attention.
Good engineering management is a fad | Irrational Exuberance
https://lethain.com/good-eng-mgmt-is-a-fad
As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a question that your company asks about you every performance cycle: is this engineering manager spending their time effectively to advance the company or their organization? Confusingly, in my experience, answering these nominally similar questions has surprisingly little in common. This piece spends some time exploring both questions in the particularly odd moment we live in today, where managers are being told they’ve spent the last decade doing the wrong things, and need to engage with a new model of engineering management in order to be valued by the latest iteration of the industry.
The New QA Mindset: Testing AI and LLMs - QAlogy
https://qalogy.com/the-new-qa-mindset-testing-ai-and-llms
For years, QA engineers have tested deterministic systems — applications that behave predictably when given specific inputs. But with the rise of AI-driven apps and large language models (LLMs), the rules have changed. The systems we’re testing today are not predictable. They’re probabilistic, data-driven, and can behave differently even when nothing in the code has changed.That’s why we, as QA professionals, need a new mindset.
Epistemic Testing, Chapter 01 – What Makes a Test a Test? | Masoud Bahrami
https://masoudbahrami.com/article/epistemic-testing-chapter-01-what-makes-a-test-a-test
“The purpose of a test is not to prove correctness, but to reveal understanding.” We write code to shape ideas into form, but what we really wrestle with every day are the invisible things: assumptions about business logic, intentions buried in variable names, and expectations about how systems will behave when no one is watching. […]
Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code – Codemanship's Blog
An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models. If you’ve wo…
Ecosystem is the next big growth channel
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/ecosystem-is-the-next-big-growth
How to stand out in a noisy landscape
5.0.0
https://brew.sh/2025/11/12/homebrew-5.0.0
Today, I’d like to announce Homebrew 5.0.0. The most significant changes since 4.6.0 are download concurrency by default, official support for Linux ARM64/AArch64, timescales for deprecating macOS Intel and removing macOS Gatekeeper bypass behaviours.
How Tinder Decomposed Its iOS Monolith App Handling 70M Users
https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/how-tinder-decomposed-its-ios-monolith
In Tinder’s case, deep inter-dependencies between those targets stretched what engineers call the critical path, which is the longest chain of dependent tasks that determines how long a build takes.
The Forty-Year Programmer
https://codefol.io/posts/the-forty-year-programmer
Do newer AI-native IDEs outperform other AI coding assistants?
https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/do-newer-ai-native-ides-outperform-other-ai-coding-assistants
Claude Code and Cursor are associated with higher PR throughput, but org size and company stage play a big role.
Acknowledgments
I didn't invented the idea of grabbing everything I couldn't process and putting it in a document. I just borrowed it (the idea and the name) from the 'Angry Metal Guy' website, which has been doing this for years. You can check their Stuck in the Filter series for more details.
