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Practical engineering management lessons learned in the trenches of scaling tech teams. Click to read From the Trenches, by Denis Stetskov, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

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The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.