Johnie Hjelm

AI is stripping meaning from developers' careers.

AI agents aren't just technically impressive, they're giving everyone access to something rare: the feeling of delegating to someone who actually gets it done.

A practical guide to building an AI-powered note-taking system that surfaces connections, maintains context, and evolves alongside your understanding.

A personal manifesto outlining the principles and ethics of using AI as a tool to augment engineering work, emphasizing ownership, curiosity, and authenticity.

A developer's journey through the tech industry while living with spinal muscular atrophy type 2, highlighting the passion for coding and the challenges posed by a progressive condition.

Leading a team is both an art and a science.

An exploration of key leadership principles in the tech sector, emphasizing the importance of automation, elimination of redundancies, and effective delegation for optimal team performance.

Discover why communication skills are just as important as coding skills in a software engineering career, and learn six steps to improve your interactions with colleagues, managers, and stakeholders.

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Personal productivity habits for capturing ideas, setting reminders, planning time, and finishing tasks, with practical advice on finding routines that work.

Six common themes successful people focus on, from self-knowledge to continuous learning, based on studying achievers across sports, art, business and spirituality.