#30 | Sunday reads for EMs

My favourite reads of the week to make your Sunday a little more inspiring.

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Culture Debt (Mike Fisher)

tl;dr: Culture debt accrues through small compromises such as rewarding outcomes over process and tolerating any behaviour that “produces results”. Culture debt is harder to fix than tech debt because trust doesn’t get refactored. Netflix rewrote their culture doc continuously as the org changed, treating it like infrastructure maintenance rather than a onboarding artifact.

When AI Writes Almost All Code, What Happens to Software Engineering? (Gergely Orosz)

tl;dr: Recent “a-ha” moments from senior engineers (DHH, Karpathy, Malte Ubl) who’ve flipped from AI skeptics to believers after the latest model releases. The real value here is the …