I JUST RECEIVED THE FINAL VERSION OF THE BOOK!🥹 We poured EVERYTHING into this book. Many books focus on AI from the perspective of the highest levels of education but what about the average corporate dev that wants to stay ahead & do well at their jobs? We wrote this for you!

I just got access to Jev! Going to be experimenting with it all day and testing it with heavy decision related tasks to see how this goes. Going to document it for the next podcast episode.

The recruiter did not reject you. They ran out of reasons to keep reading. You are not competing with better software engineers. You are competing with better documented ones. Documentation is a skill and it is learnable! You have learned harder things.

An AI agent that can only give advice is just a chatbot with a better title. Forge lets you build custom actions that Rovo agents can execute inside your team's Atlassian workflow. Read a Jira issue. Analyze it. Post the findings. Update the work. Nobody needs another AI that tells them what to do. Build one that takes something off their plate. – at Frisco, TX

THIS is where I think Atlassian has a really interesting advantage. The goal isn’t “use AI.” The goal is removing the translation tax between what I mean & what gets built Record the problem in Loom. Explain it naturally. Pass that context directly into the development workflow – at Frisco, TX

I saw all those photos from CYC. Day 3 back in the gym. It's over with now, I'm back, but I can't lie, the level of sore I am is unreal. Just avoiding ego, keeping it as light as I can so my body adjusts. – at Frisco, TX

The Atlassian Marketplace is essentially a giant list of problems customers were willing to pay somebody else to solve. There will always be opportunity for people who solve expensive problems.

Y'all saw how awesome The Commit Your Code Conference 2026 was but you weren't there with us! So, Who am I going to see at CYC27? – at Frisco, TX

You have no control over whether someone offers you a job. But you DO HAVE control over whether your name comes up when someone says, “Do you know anyone good?”

AI didn’t make technical skill less valuable. It just made it painfully obvious who actually understands what they’re building.

The Sponsor Prospectus for The Commit Your Code Conference 2027! Y'all asked and I worked round the clock this week to get all the details. If your company is interested in being part of a conference that is very different, I'd love to have that conversation with you!