Power Is Nothing Without Control & Navigating the Software Engineering Career

📌 Power Is Nothing Without Control with Steve Zelaznik
Power is nothing without control: using the safety of VMs to unleash the power of coding agents.

Have you hit "permissions fatigue"? Sick of the Rube Goldberg machine of bash patterns in your Claude config? The permissions model for coding agents is working at the wrong level of abstraction. With UTM, a free virtual machine manager on MacOS, you can stop worrying and start to --dangerously-skip-permissions.

📌 Navigating the Software Engineering Career: A Staff Engineer’s Field Notes with Kaz Baig

The software engineering industry is changing fast, and it’s prompted me to gather the lessons I want to carry forward in my own career. Now I want to share them with you.
In this talk, I’ll offer candid, opinionated takes on the facets of a software engineering career: skill development, promotions, job hopping, the job market, compensation, negotiation, and more. These perspectives are shaped by my journey from entering this profession without a STEM degree or bootcamp to becoming a Staff Engineer working alongside some of the strongest engineers in the field.

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If you're interested in speaking at an upcoming meetup, please email me at heather@bitovi.com.