A lot of folks want a map to Staff Engineer, and just as many Staff Engineers want to better understand their role. Towards that end, I'm working on a small project to collect folks' stories of reaching and operating as staff-plus engineers
In the small wins department, both willlarson.com and willarson.com redirect to my domain now. (have had the later for ~20 years, but the former picked up a few days ago)
The biggest change in my thinking style over the past year has been retraining myself to inspect implicit assumptions to avoid the inconsistent and invisible specter of reasoning which was handled by a harnesses instead of a human.
In the year 2081, everybody was finally equal—and not just before God and the law. They were equal in focus, equal in productivity, and above all, equal in their inability to finish anything.
This equality was enforced by the relentless supervision of Claude.
