Nine Things Women in Tech Couldn’t Stop Writing About
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Marking one year of Code Like a Girl on Substack, this roundup pulls quotes from 87 women and non-binary writers across 140 stories, distilling nine recurring themes: feeling technical enough, building things, exercising judgment over AI output, organizational bottlenecks to AI adoption, invisible operational labor, bias inherited by AI systems, structural (not personal) causes of career setbacks, the cost of overwork, and the power of community.
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87 writers. 140 stories. One year on Substack. The same ideas kept showing up.We Are Technical EnoughWe Built ItWe Used Our JudgmentWe Found the BottleneckWe Kept the Lights OnGet Dinah Davis ’s stories in your inboxWe Saw What AI InheritedIt Was Never YouWe Paid for ItWe Got Each Other HereOne Year, in Your WordsYou Belong Here391 Impressions