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A Blog by Holly French

AI and Imposter Syndrome: A Paradox

August 14, 2026

I’m far from the only person who has felt the dreaded Imposter Syndrome in their career. In high school and college, I studied, took hard classes, and got pretty good grades. Did pretty well in coding interviews.

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Seven Reasons Engineers Hate Their Managers in the Age of AI

August 12, 2026

AI has changed a lot in our day-to-day as EMs and ICs. Here are seven reasons engineers are losing trust in their managers right now, but also the case for hope.

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Blogging is Dead. Long Live the Blog!

August 11, 2026

If I see ONE MORE AI slop blog post, I’m gonna scream. Maybe not scream, but at least unsubscribe from your posts. Then loudly and overconfidently decree that blogging is dead. That said, I have a lot of uncorralled thoughts about the tech industry that I’ve been asking a lot of friends, peers, and colleagues to pick apart. I’ve been picking the brains of EMs at other tech companies, and their thoughts range from “I want to burn the whole thing to the ground right now” to “AI has empowered so many people to move faster, take risks, and do more.” I don’t know specifically where I land on this spectrum just yet.

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A Week In Lebanon

August 23, 2012

Since I’ve spent the majority of this past year in not-America, I’ve tried to travel to places I’ve never been, now that I’m already out-and-about. I think I’ve covered about eleven countries in the past eleven months, but the country that has made the single biggest impression on me (other than my beloved Hungary) is Lebanon. Definitely Lebanon. I feel like I could write three blog posts worth of material about Lebanon here, but since brevity is the soul of wit, I’ll just try to outline a few observations that stood out to me.

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