PAPaul Alaninpenling.hashnode.dev·Jun 14 · 6 min readThe spec is in the wrong placeMy day job is at a large tech company. Hundreds of engineering teams, and every one of them is somewhere different on AI adoption. Some are still treating coding agents as a curiosity. Some have quiet00
PAPaul Alaninpenling.hashnode.dev·Jun 13 · 5 min readAI code merges cleanly. The decision trail doesn't. Six months later, nobody knows why the code is the way it is — and the diff won't tell you.Six months ago one of the engineers on my team shipped a Microsoft SSO integration. Worked first time, tests passed, PR was clean. It went in on a Thursday afternoon. Last week someone raised a bug. D00
PAPaul Alaninpenling.hashnode.dev·Jun 12 · 5 min readA brief and a spec are not the same thingWe had a moment, early on, that I think a lot of teams are having right now. An engineer picked up a task on a Monday morning. By Monday afternoon the code was written. By Tuesday it was reviewed and 00
