preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02740
Who's Who of AI
Cat Hicks
Author of The Psychology of Software Teams (launching July 2026!): https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Software-Teams/Hicks/p/book/9781032963389
she/her 🏳️🌈
Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/
Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
What they're sharing
arxiv.org
arxiv.org
CTO Hour with Peter Bell: Engineering Metrics for Agentic Development Teams oreilly.com
Articles & links
Ok apparently there are papers! I dug up one arxiv.org/abs/2410.06351
Just finished the CTO Hour with O'Reilly on eng metrics and agentic dev teams. I'll summarize a few high-level takeaways www.oreilly.com/live-events/...
Their own posts
Recent commentary
In pseudoscience folk theories about AI and cognition I'm kind of surprised we're just limited to labeling all human behavior as "psychosis", we could also have "AI depersonalization," "AI derealization", "AI folie à deux" "AI alexithymia" like come on where is the theoretical richness
Everybody is sooooooo nice but honestly I am reading pull requests on my learning opportunities skill with my head in my hands "AI skill decay" more like AI skill explody parsing these terms like I'm learning hieroglyphics
I have looked at the accessibility landscape multiple times for temporary disabilities (lost my voice when I battled back from lung damage, have vision issues that have been sometimes worse and sometimes better), now I have serious serious hand pain, and the impact of AI on this stuff is unreal
Their network
In Cat Hicks's orbit
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