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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simple Solutions
A paradox in the tech industry: complex solutions get more recognition than simple ones. Two developers solve the same problem — one simply, one with "scalable event-driven architecture."
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Internet Comment Bestiary: A Taxonomy of Online Commenters
Every article on Habr attracts a colorful cast of commenters. Here is a complete field guide to the eleven archetypes you will inevitably encounter — and tactical advice for handling each one.
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I Paid 300K a Month to a Developer Who Was Secretly Feeding My Tasks to ChatGPT
A team lead discovers that a mid-level developer has been secretly outsourcing all programming tasks to ChatGPT instead of writing code himself.
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I Got Fired Because of AI, But I Still Consider Myself an Engineer of the Future
A satirical first-person account of a developer who replaced all engineering judgment with AI tools, got fired for producing catastrophic code quality, and is now building a startup that won't launch due to a bug no AI can fix.
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Real LLM Usage Logs Over 7 Months for 527 Employees — What People Actually Do with LLMs at Work and What's Wrong with Them
An analysis of real-world LLM usage data across 527 employees over 7 months, revealing that API access is 8.5x cheaper than subscriptions, image generation consumes 64% of the budget, and the ROI on corporate AI deployment reaches 2800%.
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21 Lessons I Learned in 14 Years at Google
Addy Osmani distills 14 years at Google into 21 hard-won lessons about what actually drives success in software engineering — and almost none of them are about writing code. A thoughtful reflection on people, clarity, and the long game.
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Management Antipatterns: What a Bad Manager Actually Does
Drawing on Selectel's engineering culture, this article catalogues the most damaging management behaviours — from micromanagement to heroism culture — and explains why each one destroys team performance and trust.
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This Is Not a Scam: What Modern Social Engineering Attacks Look Like
A detailed first-hand account of a professional social engineering attack targeting the author's elderly mother through a fake Telegram work chat. The attack unfolded in four coordinated acts — from trust-building to credit bombardment — and reveals how modern fraudsters exploit institutional roles rather than demanding victims break rules.
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I Didn't Get Promoted
A specialist who built an entire department from scratch reflects on why delivering outstanding results doesn't lead to promotion — and how companies exploit autonomous workers while blocking their path to leadership.
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Why Do People Go to Work? Five Types of Motivation According to Gercikov
An exploration of Vladimir Gercikov's influential framework for classifying employee motivation into five distinct types, explaining why universal motivation systems often fail and how managers can align incentives with individual drivers.
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On the State of IT in 2025
A veteran developer with over 20 years in the industry gives an unflinching assessment of what went wrong in IT — inflated salaries, inexperienced hires, speed over quality — and what the market correction will look like. Essential reading for anyone entering the field or managing teams today.
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If Your Bank's Security Department Calls You — Be Careful. It Might Actually Be Them
A developer receives what looks like a classic social-engineering scam call from a bank's security department — verifies it is fraud — and then has all his accounts frozen by that very bank a week later. The story is a sharp critique of how banks communicate with customers in ways indistinguishable from phishing.