Manager's feedback: "You're doing great work. But leadership doesn't see it."

• LLMS
• Chats
• Studios
• Agents
• Agentic IDEs

• Specialized apps
• No-code app generators
• RAGs

• Alignment
• AI Slop
• Ecology

2 shifts I see

The problem Roman had is getting worse, not better

AI is making every engineer faster

The floor is rising - a minimum bar for "acceptable engineer" went up

The ceiling is lowering - the expectations of a bigger impact come sooner

Deciding WHAT to build

Trusted judgement

Right people know you

Multiplying your impact

AI increases your throughput — and everyone else's output

More noise

Without a system, AI just makes you busier and more scattered

‼️ Danger Zone

📈 Amplified

• Known for speed

• Shipping fast

• Cranking out code

• Known for judgment

• Trusted with ambiguity

"I'll get better at AI tools" - table stakes, doesn't differentiate

"I'll watch more YouTube/read books"  - knowing and doing are different

"I'll job hop for a title bump" - works once, same problem at new company

"I'll go deeper on fundamentals/master Staff skill tree" - that's a description of Staff, not a path to it

Problem 1: Speed stops differentiating you.
What's left?

Problem 2: Signal-to-noise ratio is collapsing.
How do you execute then?

He could ship, but was "invisible"

AI would make it worse

As he was a career switcher, that was not a show-stopper

Five components: 

• Predictability
• Reliability
• Credibility
• Low-maintenance
• Authentic intent

Trust is the foundation!

You can articulate why your work matters in business terms

Types of Value:

• Time
• Status
• Money
• Connectedness

Your manager sees 10% of your work. Their manager sees 1%

Information signals:

• Concise Reports
• Sharing
• 1-on-1s
• Team events
• Overcommunicating

Three types:

• Through People
• Through Systems
• Through Scope

Through Scope is the most common path for Senior → Staff

Warning: do not attempt Through Scope without high Trust

Took him ~5 years

• Capture

• Plan

• Prioritize

• Execute

• Synthesize

• Archive

• Review

Upcoming cohort:

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Roman: invisible mid-level → Staff Security Engineer, 3x salary

Tim (Microsoft): Microsoft → startup → Head of Engineering

Felipe (GitHub): Frustrated, planned to quit → Found a better fit

Invisible expert

You ship. Decent reviews. Promotions go to less skilled people.

 Stuck Senior

You solve ambiguous problems. Your team is happy. No recognition.

 Ambitious Junior

You know how to be independent.

Hungry for quick growth. Ready to put in effort

Struggling with fundamentals

No job right now

Already Staff+ and crushing it

Good career coach: $300/hr for 1:1 coaching

One year stuck = $10-50k unrealized salary (depending on your geo)

There are other courses. Most are self-paced content dumps.
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Integrates with existing work

It took Roman 5 years.
You will compress that.

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You get 1 year of support in cohort's Maven community

Week 1: Context & Diagnostics

See your current position more vividly

Week 2-3: AttentionBIOS is running

Clarity on where you waste your time and attention

By April you’ll have your system running

By July people will notice

If you wait until 2027, that’s another year of being invisible or stuck

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