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Are Software Engineers Going Away?
Every day, my timeline is flooded with the same underlying panic: Is AI going to destroy the software engineering profession? If you look at the rapid…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
Min-Max Employment
This week, Meta laid off another 8,000 employees. These layoffs feel so dystopian nowadays especially since Meta employees ended up learning the exact…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
How to Actually Get What You Want in Life
Most people believe that to win at a high level, you have to be the smartest, most inherently gifted person in the room. They treat success like a…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
How Do I Live in the Present?
I’ve spent the last few days in a small village in the south of France, thinking about a concept I’m historically bad at: living in the present. We’re…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
365 Days Ago I Left Google: 3 Lessons I've Learned in Self-Employment
One year ago today, I walked away from my Software Engineering role at Google. At the time, it felt like the riskiest move of my life. Now, looking back…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
Leverage is Everything
Most people blindly subscribe to a linear relationship between input and output. They believe that if they work 40 hours a week, they will achieve 40…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
A Deep Dive into My Remote Development Setup
Last week, I talked about the philosophy of “Cattle, Not Pets”, the idea that your laptop should be disposable, not a precious asset. But why actually…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
The Software Engineer Weekly
The Software Engineer Weekly
Accelerate your software engineering career with weekly tips. Read by engineers at Google, Netflix, Meta, and more. Written by a Software Engineer @ Google.
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