You're doing great, and you need to hear that :) — Kev's logbook

Why recognition matters at work: praise releases dopamine and drives motivation, but it fades when overused. A case for thanking people, timely and often.

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Gotta Earn 'Em All: The Gym Badges of Agentic Engineering (Part 2) — Kev's logbook

Last time we earned four badges: bedrock, context, scoped speed, and the patience to garden instead...

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Gotta Earn 'Em All: The Gym Badges of Agentic Engineering (Part 1) — Kev's logbook

The NPC at the Indigo Plateau makes you earn eight gym badges first — the prerequisite grind we skip every time we code with AI agents.

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In the AI Era, Code Is Cheap. Reputation Isn’t. — Kev's logbook

AI makes open source contribution mechanically easy but reputationally hard. As agents flood repos with PRs, reputation becomes the thing that scales.

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