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Why your AI bill is bigger than it should be

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By Charles Humble Verified
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You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 13 minutes Key takeaways: Most of what you send to LLMs is unnecessary, and you’re paying for all of it. One $287 AI bill led to a tool that saved users $700,000 in five months. Token hygiene is the next engineering discipline. Treat token budgets like compute credits and measure what a task actually needs, not what it consumes.
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AI-generated code sparks production confidence crisis

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By Chantal Kapani
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You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Key takeaways: AI is generating code faster than teams can trust it. 35% won’t ship AI-generated code because they can’t assess the risk. The bottleneck has moved from generation to verification: AI writes at machine speed, review runs at human speed. Speed without understanding creates an ownership crisis.
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AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price

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By Chantal Kapani
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You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Key takeaways: AI is keeping engineers at their desks longer, not freeing them up. Random rewards, dopamine hits, and no natural stopping points create a loop comparable to casino gambling. The burnout is real and accelerating. Nearly half of engineers feel emotionally drained weekly. The fix is deliberate habits, not restricted tools.
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How to prepare for your engineering manager interview

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By Vaidehi Joshi
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You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Key takeaways: Engineering manager interviews are heavy on behavioral rounds. Compile leadership anecdotes and practise telling them concisely. Know your leadership style – and your gaps: explain what kind of leader you are with concrete examples, and address thin areas honestly. It signals more than bluffing. Don’t underestimate the technical rounds.
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AI-coding agents are now the default. What comes next?

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By Bill Doerrfeld Verified
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You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Key takeaways AI-coding won’t be optional for long. Linear standardized on AI agents in a week and never looked back – 30% more PRs, 33% more issues closed. The new bottleneck is context, not code: Linear cut token usage 40% through context engineering and started writing more RFCs, not fewer.
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Killing a project is every engineering leader’s hardest call

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By Alessandro Bahgat
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You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Key takeaways: Advocating for your team and advocating for a project are not the same thing. Defending a struggling project can deprive your team of the chance to work on something more impactful. A shared rubric turns a painful conversation into a principled one. Kill the project before it kills momentum.
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Engineering managers ditch cloud AI for local LLMs

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By Chris Stokel-Walker Verified
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You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Key takeaways: Local LLMs have crossed a credibility threshold. When the engineer whose work underpins local inference says he’s using a 27B model as his daily coding driver, that’s a signal worth taking seriously. Local LLMs are already good enough for the boring-but-useful stuff where paying for frontier inference is overkill.
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You can vibe code a demo. You can’t vibe code a product

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You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Key takeaways: Anyone can vibe code a demo. Almost no one is ready for production. Infrastructure, safety, compliance, and eval are where most teams quietly fail. Your inference bill will make or break you. The model is the easy part. Product-market fit, compliance, and quality eval all have to be built by humans.
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How to stay technical as an engineering manager

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By Emma Bostian
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You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Key takeaways: Technical proficiency is no longer optional for engineering managers. It gives you credibility, protects your team’s focus time, and enables sound decisions without pulling engineers away from their work. Staying technical requires deliberate investment.
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AI coding creates two kinds of debt. You’re only measuring one

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By Antonija Bilić Arar
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You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Key takeaways: Cognitive debt is the technical debt nobody is measuring. When AI generates code faster than engineers can understand it, teams lose track of what their system does and why. The tool isn’t the problem – the relationship with it is: two interns used AI at the same frequency. The difference? Whether they engaged with what it produced.
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