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Relentlessly focus on the outcomes

AI makes it easy to focus inwards and feel impressed with all the churn and motion and output you're producing. But your users don't...

Engineering levels aren't about skill anymore

Traditional engineering levels were about skill progression. I think this has changed. Everyone now is a mini staff...

Just fix their PR

You know what's better than a code review comment? A...

"But if AI does it all, what's *my* job?"

On AI, mental load, and...

What you need to make an agent

I've been digging into agents for internal tooling and processes. Looking for how to scale without drowning in manual work. Here's what I...

Quick note on evals and putting AI in your resume

When candidates put AI on their resume, the key thing I try to find out is whether they used evals. How did you measure making...

AI now writes 97% of my code. Here's what I learned

Forget the bullshit tips and tricks, just talk to...

Just Read the Paper

Read more papers. You can learn the latest and greatest in your field in one chill...

Watch people work

We talk a lot about outcomes over outputs and how engineers are supposed to get us over the water, not blindly build a bridge because someone asked for a bridge. But how do you do that in...

Frustration Driven Development

Frustration is your greatest engineering asset. What do you do the 5th time someone asks for the same damn thing yet...

Software engineer interviews for the age of AI

Maybe AI will replace engineers, I don't know. Self-driving cars were just around the corner for 50 years. Until then we've got shit to do and engineers to...

The best engineers just get shit done, sometimes with AI

The best engineers I know never talk about their AI setup. The worst engineers I know only talk about their AI...

Taming chaos is a learnable skill

How you approach software engineering makes it harder or easier to handle interruptions and other chaos. Writing a behavioral interview made me realize this is a learnable...

Put scope on your resume

Your resume titles don't matter. Just tell me what did you...

Probably the realest thing I ever wrote

Users buy your service, not your code

You might enjoy this podcast episode. Sylvain and I talked about owning production in a world where AI writes the...

GeLLMan amnesia

AI will automate every job except the ones I'm deeply familiar...

The 3 curves that make a scalable business

You want users and revenue to grow exponentially. Bugs per day to grow linearly. Support work to grow logarithmically. Your goal is to make this...