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title: "manager.dev"
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owner: "Anton Zaides (@antonz23)"
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website: "https://newsletter.manager.dev"
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# manager.dev

## Articles (page 1)

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- 2026-09-08 - [Take that demotion](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/take-that-demotion) - It's the perfect time for a switchback move
- 2026-09-01 - [The Engineering Manager's role is under attack (again)](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/the-engineering-manager-s-role-is-under-attack-again) - And nobody learns from past mistakes
- 2026-08-25 - [When non-devs open PRs](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/when-non-devs-open-prs) - My failed attempts to create a good system for handling it
- 2026-08-18 - [Extreme Programming 1999->2026](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/extreme-programming-1999-2026) - Timely lessons from a 27-year-old book
- 2026-08-11 - [The 3 product battles 84% of EMs lose](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/the-3-product-battles-84-of-ems-lose) - "PMs decide what, engineers decide how" is a bad deal
- 2026-08-04 - [The death and revival of the hands-on Engineering Manager](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/the-death-and-revival-of-the-hands-on-engineering-manager) - The antidote to the AI-hype
- 2026-07-28 - [3 things top 1% teams do differently](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/3-things-top-1-teams-do-differently) - Hiring, parallelization, and why they stopped reviewing most PRs
- 2026-07-21 - [Charting your team's knowledge & skills map](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/charting-your-team-s-knowledge-skills-map) - If you rebuilt your team again today, knowing what you know now, would it look the same?
- 2026-07-14 - [Cursing the day Lovable was born](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/cursing-the-day-lovable-was-born) - Explaining to business people why building software is still hard
- 2026-07-07 - [The software engineering war](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/the-software-engineering-war) - Most of us picked a side and won't budge. Which one are you on?
- 2026-06-30 - [7 reasons experienced EMs get stuck](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/7-reasons-experienced-ems-get-stuck) - The mistakes that stall a career, even when you see them coming.
- 2026-06-23 - [Building a code reviewer from your team's PR history](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/building-a-code-reviewer-from-your-team-s-pr-history) - Github template inside ⬇️
- 2026-06-16 - [The "I don't know, Claude wrote this" pandemic](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/the-i-don-t-know-claude-wrote-this-pandemic) - When Claude drives you off the cliff
- 2026-06-09 - [The generalist EM's reading list](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/the-generalist-em-s-reading-list) - 7 books to easily catch up with non-engineering professions in tech (number 3 is a must read)
- 2026-06-02 - [Surviving in the "chaos management" era](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/surviving-in-the-chaos-management-era) - More "AI skills" is not what you need right now
- 2026-05-26 - ["okay" vs excellent engineering teams](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/okay-vs-excellent-engineering-teams) - 7 small gaps
- 2026-05-19 - [The un-hateable engineering managers](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/the-un-hateable-engineering-managers) - The lie of Radical Candor and ruining an engineer's day
- 2026-05-12 - [The engineering management memory crisis](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/the-engineering-management-memory-crisis) - For 8 years, my brain was enough. It's running out of RAM
- 2026-05-05 - [The "Negative split" software engineering effect](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/the-negative-split-software-engineering-effect) - Engineering teams don't need to 'just go faster' - the technique behind the sub-2-hour marathon
- 2026-04-28 - [Managing a team that didn't choose you](https://usecommune.com/n/managerdev/a/managing-a-team-that-didn-t-choose-you) - The lie of the 30-60-90 onboarding plan: an honest self-retro after 6 months as an EM