Tthepragmatistinthepragmatist.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 8 min readWhen Leaders Ignore the No Asshole Rule!Originally published on Rough Edges. There's a pattern I've watched play out in more than one organization. From a distance it looks like high performance. Up close it's something else. A strong engin00
Tthepragmatistinthepragmatist.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 6 min readWhat Engineering Managers Are Actually ForOriginally published on Rough Edges. There's a version of engineering management that shows up in a lot of technical writing: the EM as scorekeeper. They track metrics, run processes, attend meetings,00
RRasinengineersnotes.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 5 min readThe Career Path I Didn’t TakeOne thought comes to my mind often as a software engineer: Did I make the right career decision? 🎧 Prefer to listen? You can hear this article as a podcast episode on Spotify: Listen to The Career P10
JVJason Vertreesinjvertrees.hashnode.dev·Jun 15 · 7 min readA Week Where Single-API LLM Stacks Got Harder to DefendA few of the news items from the past week caught my eye, and they read differently in sequence than they do apart. Individually they're a US export-control action against an AI lab, a model-vendor bl00
MMediuswareinmediusware.hashnode.dev·Jun 15 · 8 min readAI Change Management for Engineering TeamsAI adoption in engineering rarely fails because the tools are not powerful enough. It fails because teams do not know how the tools should be used, who owns the output, and when human judgment must ov00
JVJason Vertreesinjvertrees.hashnode.dev·Jun 12 · 5 min readTime-Lapse EngineeringWhen we engineering leaders talk about AI-native software delivery, the conversation usually starts with speed: how much faster can we ship, how much more code can developers produce, how much can the00
JVJason Vertreesinjvertrees.hashnode.dev·Jun 11 · 8 min readTen Failure Modes from a Year of Running an Agent Harness — Part 2This is the second of two articles cataloging failure modes I've observed running an agent harness in production. The first five, in Part 1, shared a theme: the system certified success when no real w00
JVJason Vertreesinjvertrees.hashnode.dev·Jun 8 · 8 min readTen Failure Modes from a Year of Running an Agent Harness — Part 1Over the past year I've been building and deploying an agent harness — a system that orchestrates LLM agents to write, review, and ship real software for real clients. Like any production system, it h00
SGSandeep Gautaminsandeepgautam.cloud·May 26 · 14 min readThe Five Layers of Cloud Maturity Inside a Bank — Where Does Yours Sit?A diagnostic framework to see where your cloud function sits and what closes each gap. TLDR Banking cloud maturity is not a single dimension. A bank can be sophisticated in infrastructure automation 00
VVVarun Vardeinvarunvarde.hashnode.dev·May 22 · 7 min readBuilding High-Performance Engineering Teams: The Platform Engineering Lead's PlaybookPlatform engineering is one of the most misunderstood disciplines in modern software organisations. Many companies think a platform team is simply "The people who manage Kubernetes." That definition i10
