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The coordination work that holds projects together disappears the moment it works. On the unfairness of recognition and finding leaders who see it anyway.

A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are...

Just want to casually talk about minimalism with everyone. I quite like this lifestyle, but that doesn't mean everyone needs to be a minimalist. Some people ...

This is a memo I published internally to my team at Monarch. I'm sharing it more publicly in case it helps other software engineering teams that are managing...

The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.

When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.

Random thoughts

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

A post from alan w. smith

A comprehensive guide to Claude Code from someone who's been using coding AI since 2021. Learn the 5 pillars of agentic coding, custom commands, and advanced...

After learning that people were finding my content via LLMs, I tried using said LLMs to make them find me even more often!

Formats over apps.

Sharing a reluctant, "node & postgres" approach to engineering management for early-stage startups

Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the...

The job of software developer is dead. You might still be coding, but the profession as you knew it is gone.

Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the...

Everyone is either offended or excited about "vibe coding." It's all the rage and going to solve all your problems, or it's the next great evil spewing crap...

AI did not kill code review. It made the burden of proof explicit. Ship changes with evidence like manual verification and automated tests, then use review f...