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      <title><![CDATA[You're Not Bad at Your Job — You're Just Bad at Asking]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI doesn't take jobs from people who actually know what they're doing. It just makes the gap between those people and everyone else a lot harder to ignore.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:48:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Do As I Say, Not As I Commit]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A developer’s perspective on the growing gap between what companies promise publicly and how they operate internally. From opaque worker-scoring systems to declining customer experience, this piece explores how “customer obsession” and corporate values often collapse under scale, incentives, and cost-cutting — and why the same broken systems eventually impact employees, contractors, and customers alike.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 20:02:39 GMT</pubDate>
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