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Developer Tea

Jonathan Cutrell

Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence. With over 7 million dow...

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How History Can Inform a Dynamic Understanding of Technological Revolutions Mirroring this Moment In Software Engineering

You're tired of hearing that you need to pick up AI, so today I'm not going to add to that pile. Instead, we'll look back at two moments in...

00:17:14Sep 30, 2026

Fundamentals Will Help You Survive the Constant Acceleration of Software Engineering

Fundamentals get talked about constantly, but rarely defined. In this episode I dig into what a fundamental actually is — the building block...

00:13:18Sep 21, 2026

You Don't Learn Helplessness - You Learn Control

A 1967 study gave us the concept of learned helplessness — but the same researchers later reversed it. Passivity is our default state; contr...

00:16:00Sep 5, 2026

Why Reducing Complexity Is A Sign of Seniority

As you grow as an engineer, something counterintuitive happens: the systems you build get simpler, not more complex. In this episode, I expl...

00:15:21Aug 21, 2026

A Pragmatic Definition for Accountability

Accountability is one of the most important concepts in your career—and one of the most frequently weaponized. In this episode, I unpack why...

00:22:34Aug 14, 2026

Using Substition to Make Decisions Simpler

The skills you've built for reading people, reviewing code, and making calls under uncertainty all rely on the same brain shortcut: substitu...

00:18:30Jul 22, 2026

Your Single Most Important Tool for Managing the Uneven Downsides of Risk

The skills you build and the tools you master matter, but they aren't your most important asset when things go wrong — and something eventua...

00:25:00Jul 10, 2026

Why Can't You Go Faster With AI? Focus on the Friction to Find Out

The skills you spent years building are getting cheaper to replicate—but that's not where the friction lives. In this throwback episode, I u...

00:19:26Jun 24, 2026

Software Engineering Principles That Still Hold Up in an Agentic World - Old Lessons Made New

The skills problem isn't going anywhere — it's just wearing new clothes. In this episode, I unpack how the lessons we learned decades ago (l...

00:31:28Jun 18, 2026

Principles Oriented Thinking as a Durable Skill in an AI First World

The skills that survive every industry shakeup aren't the ones you can Google — they're softer, harder to name, and far more durable. In thi...

00:27:34Jun 10, 2026

What the Science Actually Says About Effective Feedback

Feedback is one of the hardest skills in any career, and most of us have only experienced a handful of moments where it actually drove posit...

00:27:50Jun 3, 2026

Rebuilding Your Mental Models In the Midst Of an AI Tech Revolution

If you're a software engineer right now, the questions you're asking about your career probably feel existential. We've been spending a lot...

00:26:56May 27, 2026

Practice Isn't Enough for Senior Engineers - Adaptation Is a Key Skill in an AI-First Industry

If you're a software engineer right now, you likely feel like your world is changing overnight. We are writing half or less the amount of co...

00:19:59May 24, 2026

Senior Skills to Maintain Employment Through the AI Wave

If you've heard that your job in the agentic coding era is to "become a manager of agents," you may have noticed something doesn't quite fit...

00:28:38May 14, 2026

You're Wrong All the Time, But All You Need Are Better Explanations

What happens when you discover that a book that fundamentally changed how you think is built on a shaky foundation? In today's episode, I sh...

00:25:33May 6, 2026

AI-Proofing Your Skillset - High-Meaning, High-Specifity Vocabulary is the Path to Growth

Why I'm Not "Picking a Fight" on AI: A listener asked if I'm intentionally stoking a flame war by treating agentic coding as a foregone conc...

00:31:10Apr 29, 2026

Building Real Skills During the AI Boom - No, Not That Kind of Skill

The Coding-Is-My-Value Trap: For years, we've treated the ability to write code as the flagship skill of software engineering. It's concrete...

00:30:16Apr 22, 2026

Chaos Doesn't Have to Win - Maintaining Order in the Midst of AI Change

If you're an engineering leader right now, everything around you feels like it's changing at once — new tools, new processes, new expectatio...

00:20:45Apr 15, 2026

Mourning the Loss of Coding, Senior Tooling Mindset, and Shaping Your Environment

Your tool set isn't just a collection of utilities — it's the environment you live in every day, and it's shaping you whether you realize it...

00:33:55Apr 8, 2026

Useful Illusions and Exploiting Heuristics

When Good Thinking Becomes Overthinking: Discover why the pursuit of perfect analysis often undermines good decision-making. Loading every c...

00:27:20Apr 1, 2026