Are you staying on top of the AI wave (or going under)?
Learn how to stay on top of all AI changes without skills atrophy and how to manage your career right at senior+ levels
I have not published a digest for 3 weeks now.
I was quite busy on the personal front, and the newsletter took a hit 😔. I also got addicted to vibe coding, which probably contributed as well 😬.
I learned so much by going over top tech newsletters and summarising them that it became an addiction at this point. I feel bad when I am not doing that 🙂.
Two themes are emerging in this one. Learning how to stay relevant in the age of AI and how to manage your career with the right expectations at senior+ positions.
Top of the Tech is back! 💪 Read on!
How to avoid sleepwalking into irrelevance in the age of AI (6 min)
We are all riding the AI wave, whether we are aware of that or not.
shares her thoughts about what you can do to stay on top and not get thrown to the sidelines. If you are aware of OpenAI’s five-stage roadmap to AGI, one of ‘s thoughts that resonates well with that is that you should start “thinking like a CEO”. Which makes perfect sense if we have agents that are “organizational equivalents”.
Audience: All tech professionals
Value: Learn how to stay on top of the AI wave 🌊
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐
13 Tech Career Misconceptions — Things I Wish I'd Learned Earlier (9 min)
The free version of this article by
has 4 misconceptions that are very common in the engineering industry. If you think that you should be rewarded for doing hard things, or you think your career is limited by the opportunities you get from your manager, you should read this one 🚿😉.Audience: Software Engineers / Engineering Managers
Value: Learn about misconceptions that are blocking your career growth
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐
Your Career Growth Is Not Your Manager's Top Priority - And What To Do About It (7 min)
This article blends well with
‘s article above ☝️. It shares three realities you must acknowledge at senior+ positions.💡 Your manager is no longer an expert in your domain; thus, his ability to teach you specific expertise is limited.
💡 Your work goes beyond the boundaries of your team.
💡 Your manager no longer controls your opportunities, nor can he provide them for you.
Audience: All tech professionals
Value: Learn harsh realities of senior+ career growth
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐
The Importance of Writing in the Engineering Industry (7 min) 💵
Writing is an essential skill for tech professionals as you reach a certain seniority. A lot of your work boils down to communicating ideas to your peers (think Slack, emails, PR reviews, tech designs, etc.). People who communicate ideas well can make a bigger impact than people who do not. That’s why good writing skills give you an edge. The article is paywalled, but the free part still conveys the importance of writing well.
Audience: Software Engineers / Engineering Managers
Value: Learn the importance of writing
ToT Rating: ⭐
Vibe-coding workflows (13 min)
I recently got addicted to vibe coding. I used Windsurf and was blown away by the power of agentic coding. This article walks you through a vibe coding workflow and some stages you can follow by using
‘s example prompts. Vibe coding I did so far was mostly on a greenfield project and did not require any special workflow. The tool was simply amazing at delivering features. I wrote zero code myself (if we exclude adding some API keys and secrets in configs), and 95% of my prompts were PM prompts, not engineering ones.Although the article contains a lot of prompt examples, I feel that it would work better if it were a video of
doing live coding and explaining the workflow.Audience: Software Engineers
Value: Learn how to vibe code as a pro
ToT Rating: ⭐
Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI (15 min)
This article by
is somewhat touching a similar topic as the one on top ☝️ from . How software is being developed is changing rapidly. And more and more of the craft is being done by AI. Addy talks about inevitable skills atrophy that comes with that. If you don’t use it, you lose it.I would be very curious to re-read these articles in a year or two, and see which one of them held up the best.
Audience: Software Engineers
Value: Learn how not to lose your critical thinking
ToT Rating: ⭐
Thanks for reading, and see you soon! 👋
I'm aside, in another peek, seeing how that wave behaves and kicks out surfers 😅