We’re still learning AI. Still arguing about Copilot etiquette. Still figuring out what “good prompts” even means. Still trying to stop teams from treating a chatbot like a teammate who never sleeps and never lies. And that’s exactly why AGI being “at the door” matters. Because AGI isn’
In 2026, being a great engineer doesn’t mean writing code fast. It means knowing what should be built—and what absolutely shouldn’t. Walk into any modern engineering team, and something’s changed. We used to hire engineers because they could produce code. Now? We hire and promote them
(and why AI didn’t replace them—it exposed them) I’ve noticed something uncomfortable about modern engineering culture: We love new tools. We love new frameworks. We love new dashboards that tell us we’re productive. But the things that actually separate great engineers—and great teams—are… annoyingly
A few years ago, “moving faster” meant hiring more engineers. Now it means… adding a Copilot seat. So yes—AI makes parallelism cheap. We can spin up more drafts, more prototypes, more Terraform plans, more PRs, more experiments—in the time it takes to finish a coffee and pretend you’
I’ve hired people with multiple degrees in hand and with years of experience - who couldn’t hold a two-minute conversation without turning it into a TED Talk about themselves. I’ve also worked with people who never finished college… and somehow had a PhD in reading the room,
At 6:12 PM on a Thursday, a tiny change ships. It’s the kind of change that feels harmless: a “small refactor,” a “quick fix,” a “one-line tweak.” The PR description is short. The demo works on the developer’s machine. The ticket is already late. Everyone is tired.
I’m not Gen-Z. I was born in the 90s—raised on “don’t touch the landline, the internet is connecting,” excited by phones that had Snake, and amazed when “Google it” became a normal verb. So why do I write under the name TheGenZTechManager? Because Gen-Z isn’t just