https://latent-arch.com/tags/career/Recent content in Career on Latent ArchHugo -- 0.147.6en-usMon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://latent-arch.com/posts/zombie-team-leave-now/Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://latent-arch.com/posts/zombie-team-leave-now/Some management teams are formally alive — meetings, plans, approvals — and functionally dead. In 2026, with the industry rewiring around AI-native and an economic crunch on top, that’s no longer ‘inefficient’ — it’s a 12-month trajectory to bankruptcy. Eight signs from one planning meeting, the contrast with a live team, and what to do if you’re on one.https://latent-arch.com/posts/crossing-the-chasm-agentic-solo-engineer/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://latent-arch.com/posts/crossing-the-chasm-agentic-solo-engineer/An honest look at which existing roles transform best into Agentic solo engineers, the four competency axes that define the role, and a week-by-week plan for the two strongest starting backgrounds. Plus the one thing background can’t predict.https://latent-arch.com/posts/the-chasm-no-one-talks-about/Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://latent-arch.com/posts/the-chasm-no-one-talks-about/AI dev tooling crossed a threshold in 2026. Some engineers quietly ship what used to take a team — and the market can’t tell who they are. A two-sided look at the gap: developers facing a profession without a curriculum, and companies that can’t recognize the practitioners they need.https://latent-arch.com/posts/you-are-not-a-2023-developer-anymore/Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://latent-arch.com/posts/you-are-not-a-2023-developer-anymore/Working with multiple AI agents isn’t ‘developer plus a faster tool.’ It’s a role change under a fixed job title. Notes from 20 years in tech on what’s actually happening cognitively, why it’s not burnout, and what to do.