The Work Looks Like Nothing
The top of the IC ladder is well traveled and still unmapped. Pattern recognition fails there. Even frontier models cannot reliably do it. No two of these people have the same story. They are very…
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Justin Higgins — software engineer, 20 years in regulated enterprise. Building at the seam between AI-assisted engineering and how that work gets recognized.
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The Principal IC Moat
This started as a simple job search. One I didn't think should last long. Twenty years as an engineer and architect in a highly regulated enterprise. Much of it as a full-stack developer in an…