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18810h ago · 6 min read · The bug report made no sense. A guard clause that should have caught the edge case wasn't there. I traced the logic back through three refactorings, four renames, and finally hit git blame. The commit was from 2019. The author wasn't someone I recogn...
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16h ago · 5 min read · You're sitting in a board meeting and someone asks: "Are we using AI yet?" The question hangs there. Everyone assumes AI means competitive advantage, but nobody's quite sure what that looks like in your specific context. That's the moment most CTOs r...
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1d ago · 4 min read · For the first month I treated Copilot like a junior engineer with ambition and no guardrails. It would write code I never asked for. I'd be halfway through a function, and Copilot would leap ahead ... creating new methods, suggesting whole classes, t...
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2d ago · 6 min read · A senior engineer posted on Reddit recently about how it's almost like he's in grief. More than a decade of craft. The things he loved. The identity he built. And now it's all changing. I read that post three times. Not because it was surprising, but...
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3d ago · 7 min read · There once was a junior who spent a week on one unit test. Thirty-seven commits. Each one broken. His senior approved the thirty-seventh because the sprint ended Friday. The test went to production. It passed, but only because it didn't actually test...
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4d ago · 5 min read · I was talking to a tech lead a couple of months ago, over drinks. Someone who's been shipping production code for over twenty years. I asked him, almost as an afterthought, when was the last time he wrote a line of code without AI assistance. He paus...
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5d ago · 4 min read · You've been there. The prompt that should work. The rephrase that feels clever. The context you're sure will fix it this time. And the AI just keeps barreling forward ... confident, eager, completely lost. I was in that spiral over a year and a half ...
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Apr 23 · 7 min read · "He will not bring in any plan of his own. He will not devise or undertake anything, but he will hear everything, remember everything, and put everything in its place. He will not hinder anything useful nor allow anything harmful." — Prince Andrew Bo...
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Apr 22 · 4 min read · Ninety-four percent test coverage on our React component library. Storybook running clean. The kind of coverage that lets you sleep at night when you're responsible for components shipping across four teams. Then a designer slides into Slack. "Small ...
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Apr 22 · 8 min read · A year ago, you had a reasonable 12-month technical roadmap. Migrate to this architecture. Build that feature. Hire engineers for this domain. You could make plans with some confidence. Now every assumption is questionable. What you were going to hir...
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