Friday Links: 1-pizza teams, being useful, and losing mastery
13 Feb 2026 #mondaylinksHey there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. When coding was the bottleneck, we used 2-pizza teams. Now, with AI writing decent code, we have to rethink team organization. AI is turning teams into 1-pizza teams (7min) while creating new roles.
#2. Most of us coders are problem solvers at heart. The worst part is that makes us addicted to being useful (6min).
#3. We are at a turning point of our career as coders (5min). Software’s first “season” is over. But the next one will be “more interesting, more economically valuable, and more mentally stimulating than we can imagine right now.”
#4. Anthropic found that over-relying on AI leads to a “statistically significant decrease in mastery.” A truth everybody already knows (2min).
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about the stats that deflate the AI hype (2min) (more revealing that Anthropic’s study) and how I’m embracing boredom (3min) (My phone screen time was quite shocking).
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Until next Friday. Keep coding smartly
Cesar