Decision Making is Your New Core Skill, So it's Critical to Avoid These Two Traps of Collaborative Decision-Making

As coding becomes cheaper and faster through agentic tools, the bottleneck in software development is shifting upstream — away from writing code and toward the decisions that determine what gets built and why. In today's episode, I explore why decision-making is rapidly becoming the central activity of your job as a software engineer, and I walk through two common traps that even senior engineers fall into when they start participating more in collaborative, organizational decisions.