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Welcome back to Path to Staff. With AI making it easier for engineers to build, you start to see “product sense” everywhere. It appears in every framework, every career thread, every promotion guide.

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Welcome back to Path to Staff! This week, we have Danny Miller, an Engineering Manager with 20 years of experience who recently left Meta.

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How to Stay Valuable When AI Writes All The Code

A breakdown of Anthropic CEO’s “Powerful AI” essay — and how engineers can prepare in a post-AI world

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Welcome back to Path to Staff! We recently hit 6k subscribers! Thank you for supporting this newsletter.

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Welcome back to Path to Staff. Most weeks, I write about career growth. This week, we need to talk about something more pressing: layoffs.

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