QFM115: Engineering Leadership Reading List — May 2026
Everything I found interesting about Engineering Leadership last month
A lean month on the leadership shelf, and the three reads rhyme more than they argue. Programming Still Sucks is the cathartic vent — the craft stays maddening, with or without AI. Josh Comeau names the elephant in the room: what this moment is quietly doing to the people building careers in software. And Nolan Lawson supplies the constructive turn in Using AI to write better code more slowly, where the point was never speed — slowing down is how the quality gets back in.
Feed: May 2026
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