4 posts
Product ownership, testing, security, platform engineering: most of what got hired as a separate seat over the last ten years is a skill that never needed one. On my team the fix landed on the tech lead, who now carries product judgment next to the technical expertise he already had. One field report, not a template — and it updates something I only got half right two posts ago.
The same week, my feed buried the Product Owner, saved the Product Manager, gave up reading AI code line by line, and handed a whole product to one person. Four posts, one event: scarcity changed sides. What dies is the relay function. What survives is product judgment — and it no longer belongs to a single role.
Agentic AI removed the friction between an idea and running code — and the friction was the only brake I had. I build seven days a week; roughly 90% of what crosses my mind becomes a project. A first-person account of the hook: what behavioral science actually says, the sourced ADHD/hyperfocus detour, and the two questions that hurt — does any of it ship, and is it worth what it costs?
France's DARES just published its 2024 snapshot of the "forfait en jours" — a day-counted (not hour-counted) work agreement used mostly for managers. Who is on it, where, and how many hours do they actually work? The essentials, without drowning the reader in numbers.