Latest posts
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The Skills Sprawl Problem Nobody Was Looking For
Or: How 56 Repos Quietly Appeared While We Were Busy Being Impressed With AI
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Extreme DRY: When ‘Don’t Repeat Yourself’ Repeats All Your Other Problems
Or: How the Engineering Principle You Learned First Quietly Strangles the Architecture You’re Trying to Build
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The Floor Plan Is Your First Architecture Decision
Or: Your Seating Chart Is Picking Your Software Architecture, Whether You Like It or Not
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Design Thinking Is Not a Workshop — It’s a Hiring Criteria
Or: Why Your Two-Day Empathy Exercise Won’t Fix a Feature Factory
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The Directness Dial: Teaching Engineers to Be Honest Without Being Brutal
Or: Why “Too Respectful” Is Just as Dangerous as “Too Blunt”
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Teaching the Agent What You Know: How to Build, Test, and Ship AI Coding Skills That Actually Hold…
Or: Your AI Assistant Is as Naive as the Day It Was Hired — and That’s Your Fault
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Teaching Engineers to Speak in Constraints
Or: Why “We Can’t Do That” and “Sure, No Problem” Are Both Lies
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The Biggest Problem With Our Codebase Is the Developers
Or: What Platform Teams Actually Exist For (And Why Most Get It Completely Backwards)
