Annyce Davis
@brwngrldev.bsky.social
Eng Director @Ford, #Speaker, #Poet, and #Instructor
For years I thought great work was enough. It isn't. The engineers and leaders who stand out make their thinking visible. That's the thread connecting my work on Invisible Signals™, AI, and leadership. My latest newsletter ==> brwngrldev.substack.com/p/building-s... #Engineering #Leadership #AI
Building Signals 📡
July 2026
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💡 I've seen brilliant engineers get overlooked. Not because they lacked capability. Rather they sent weak signals about ownership, impact, and judgment. Capability matters; signal quality determines whether anyone notices. 🔗 annycedavis.com/2026/06/invi... #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership
Invisible Signals: Why Smart Engineers Still Get Overlooked
A few months ago, a friend asked me to review her résumé. She had submitted more than 300 job applications and was barely getting any responses. I knew her work. She’s thoughtful, highly capa…
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What signal are you sending? I've spent years mentoring engineers and hiring leaders. One thing I've learned: talented people often struggle because they send unclear signals about their experience and impact. Today I'm open-sourcing Invisible Signals™. 🚀 invisiblesignals.dev
Most leaders are already using AI—a lot. 😅 They’re just not sure what “good” looks like. So they get more output… not better decisions. AI isn’t the constraint. Cognitive drag is. 🤷🏾♀️ More: annycedavis.com/2026/04/ai-a...
AI-Augmented Leadership Is Not About Using AI
I thought AI was going to make me more productive. Maybe even give me some of my time back. That was the plan 😅 It didn’t quite work out that way. Instead, it made it a lot harder to ignore where t…
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How much did it cost Subway to be in every single #Kdrama??? Like, it's not even slightly subtle. Half the series they're eating subs like it's nothing
Hey, I just mailed out jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #303! @brwngrldev.bsky.social on reducing development friction! Line graphs! CMP IDE plugin! Syntax highlighting! And... can we *finally* get rid of ViewModel?!? jetc.dev/issues/303 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev
The biggest slowdowns on engineering teams rarely come from lack of talent. They come from friction we’ve normalized. Jetpack Compose reduced more of that friction than I expected. Here’s what changed for me: annycedavis.com/2026/02/jetp... #EngLeadership #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose #Tech
Jetpack Compose and the Speed of Thinking
I wasn’t excited about Jetpack Compose. There. I said it. When it first came out, it felt like Flutter in a different outfit. Kotlin instead of Dart. Same declarative energy. And look, I didn’t hav…
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Your files aren’t the problem. Your signals are decaying. I built a leadership OS: • Decision log • Execution system • AI for synthesis Less searching. Faster decisions. More leverage. Read it 👇🏾 annycedavis.com/2026/02/how-... #AI #Leadership #SystemsThinking #Engineering #FutureOfWork
How I Finally Tamed My Chaotic Files
The author describes a shift from organizing knowledge in complex systems to preserving decision-making processes through a two-part system: OneNote for a chronological decision log and OneDrive as…
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Golden Kodee Community Awards We’re celebrating the people who make the Kotlin community thrive through education, open source, events, and creativity. Nominations are open. Learn more and nominate someone who deserves recognition, including yourself: https://bit.ly/4sRrklK
Golden Kodee Community Awards | KotlinConf 2026, May 20–22, Munich
KotlinConf is the official Kotlin conference by JetBrains. It is a place for the community to gather and discuss all things Kotlin.
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If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from? New blog post on the 'disappearing middle': chrisbanes.me/posts/disapp...
The Disappearing Middle: How AI Coding Tools Are Breaking Software Apprenticeship
How AI coding agents are automating away the developer apprenticeship ladder. Discover three personas for using agentic programming effectively, when it accelerates work, and critical guardrails to pr...
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#Androidified myself. I'm just a traveling cowboy! 🤠 Create your own and watch the latest episode of #TheAndroidShow. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/the-...
The #AndroidShow is about to begin! Tune in to see the latest updates in the world of Android 💚 maybe you will even see someone familiar 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdpS...
Tune in (here!) on September 3 - and click to get notified - for The Android Show!
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Make sure you watch the #AndroidShow tomorrow to learn about the latest goodies from #Google! youtu.be/BXH6ZiLBT8A?...
Tune in on September 3 for our next episode of The Android Show
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This song needs to be studied. No matter my mood, if I'm on a plane, a train, my feet are moving! 💃🏽 youtube.com/watch?v=ru0K...
Justin Timberlake - CAN'T STOP THE FEELING! (from DreamWorks Animation's "TROLLS") (Official Video)
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Remember the marble diagrams used to explain RxJava? My brilliant colleague Kostya 🧙♂️ has made an interactive explainer for Kotlin Flows to match! Find the magic here: terrakok.github.io/FlowMarbles/
I asked Gemini to create a haiku based on my career goals 💌 Ship cool things always, Solve hard problems with good friends, Tease boss, laugh, have fun
Asked MS #Copilot: "Summarize my week in the style of a comedy roast" Reply: "So, in summary: you navigated privacy crises, repo deletions, AI agents, and at least three meetings that could’ve been interpretive dance. Bravo, Annyce. Bravo." I smiled. Then let out a little chuckle. #neededthat
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Had the opportunity to attend #GoogleIO again this year. Besides getting to connect with friends, I left with tons of ideas around how #AI can be used to boost developer productivity and unlock unique customer experiences. Check out the blog post => annycedavis.com/2025/06/goog...
Google I/O 2025: What busy Execs need to know
Android continues to expand beyond phones into cars, wearables, and more, now reaching over billions of screens. Google I/O 2025 introduced key updates focused on making experiences adaptive across…
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Had my first pork bun and now I'm one step closer to turning into my favorite #Anime character.
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@tornorbye.bsky.social can't get enough of the animation updates in Gemini #googleio
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I've never been to an AMA where no one has led their "question" with a whole diatribe. 🤦🏼♀️
They start with DolphinGemma instead of DoggoGemma. I'm flabbergasted 🤔 #googleio
Today, we've released a brand new Jetpack library - Navigation3! A pure Compose, state based navigation library: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno...
Announcing Jetpack Navigation 3
Explore Jetpack Navigation 3, a new Compose-first navigation library with increased flexibility so Android developers to build robust experiences.
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@florinam.bsky.social came out and the crowd was like, "Whatever you're selling, I'm buying!" She did a great job! #googleio
