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Two Predictions About You I’m going to go out on a limb with two predictions: Your professional success is largely due to an algorithm you master without knowing it. You’re worried that your kids apparently don’t use it. The first one is correct. The second… well, it might not be the problem you think it is. The algorithms are called Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS). Even if they don’t ring a bell, I guarantee they’re old friends. Your brain has been using them for millions of years. ...

The Layoff He Didn’t See Coming A 38-year-old senior developer. Eight years at the company. Clean code, best practices, zero production incidents. In the latest productivity review, his output was 40% lower than colleagues with half his experience. The difference: they were using Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code. He kept writing every line by hand, convinced that “AI tools generate mediocre code.” They didn’t fire him for writing bad code. They fired him for writing good code too slowly. ...