
The new 10x Engineer with AI
The idea of the “10x engineer” has always been a bit controversial.
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The idea of the “10x engineer” has always been a bit controversial.

In one of my 1:1s, an engineer on my team asked, “I know we have the career ladder docs,” he said, “but what does it really take to get to the next level?

This question came up in a chat with my team: “How do you think about different levels of experience?”.

Have you ever gotten a new title and suddenly felt unsure or stressed because of all the new things people expect from you?

There’s something quietly shaping the way we work every day, but we rarely talk about it.

It was a slow Sunday afternoon.

Everyone’s talking about MCP (Model Context Protocol) and how it’s supercharging workflows in tools like Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other desktop apps.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been evolving for decades, but we’ve now hit an inflection point where AI is moving from research labs into everyday tools, and everyone now talks about AI.

CursorAI is an AI-powered code editor (built on VS Code) that integrates a large language model (LLM) directly into your development workflow.