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Notes on the engineer-to-leadership path — and how to rehearse the hard parts.

• AI & LeadershipJul 5, 2026· 6 min read

  AI made the soft skills the hard part. We still don't train them.

  Two 2026 reports reach the same verdict from opposite ends of software: as AI writes more of the code, the market pays more for the human skills, and agentic development makes them matter more, not less. So why does almost no one train them?

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• LeadershipJun 6, 2026· 7 min read

  You found out you were bad at the exec update — in the exec update

  The leap from writing code to running the room is the part of an engineering career nobody trains you for. Here's why leadership failure is usually rehearsal failure — and how Catalyst lets you take the reps.

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