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After 15 years of coding, my juniors were outpacing me. Six months with Cursor later, I'm saving 5-8 hours weekly, but there's a catch most reviews skip.

A developer made $493 from pre-orders before writing real application code. Here's the backwards validation approach that got paying customers first.

Real transcripts and email templates from 12 staff engineer negotiations. The tactics that work at senior level will hurt you here—here's what actually works.

After 3 years defending Jira, we tested Linear, Notion, GitHub Projects, and Shortcut with our 12-person team. One finally made tickets disappear into the background.

Pluralsight's "advanced" courses felt like review. After spending $2K testing alternatives, O'Reilly's live events and book access actually pushed me forward.

Your best backend work can't fit in a screenshot. Here's how staff+ engineers actually showcase architectural decisions, mentorship, and invisible impact.

After months testing keyboards during real coding sessions, the Kinesis Advantage360 won—but a cheaper split option came surprisingly close.

After 6 months tracking 12 metrics across both apps, the winner came down to one question most comparisons ignore. Spoiler: capture time dropped from 12s to 4s.

2,847 autocomplete suggestions later, the 4% accuracy gap wasn't the real story. The difference showed up in code that actually understood my project.

Six months, three projects, 75K lines of Java. The $200/year difference came down to one feature I didn't expect to care about.