LDLuis de Pabloinengineeringwithoutdogma.hashnode.dev·Apr 7 · 3 min readClaude Code Moved My BottleneckI have been quiet for a few weeks. Part of it was workload. Part of it was getting dragged into the wave of console agents, mostly through Claude Code. The main thing I have learned is this: the real 00
LDLuis de Pabloinengineeringwithoutdogma.hashnode.dev·Feb 24 · 11 min readStop Hiding Your Operational Costs in Your Engineers' PayrollMost companies systematically underinvest in tools and overpay in fatigue. This isn't a theory; it’s a reality hidden in boring decisions that look perfectly sensible in a spreadsheet. The illusion of00
LDLuis de Pabloinengineeringwithoutdogma.hashnode.dev·Feb 10 · 4 min readAccess Isn’t OwnershipWe have four senior engineers.All of them have admin access to Jira.None of them considers themselves the owner. And when something breaks, the default assumption is always the same: someone else will deal with it. Access is not ownership. Ownership ...00
LDLuis de Pabloinengineeringwithoutdogma.hashnode.dev·Jan 27 · 11 min readTech Debt Is How You Learn Your Codebase Is a Business AssetIn some companies, “technical debt” doesn’t even exist as a real concept. Mention it in a meeting and you get the look: this is a nice engineer word, but it doesn’t apply here. The product ships, revenue grows, incidents are “manageable”… so what exa...00
LDLuis de Pabloinengineeringwithoutdogma.hashnode.dev·Jan 12 · 5 min readBetting Against Evolvability: MongoDB, Joins, and Architectural CommitmentsSystems don’t stay where they started In Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann uses the term evolvability in a very practical way: real systems tend to not stay where they started.You design a service with one set of assumptions lik...00