Series
The honest engineer
Notes on engineering culture: the gap between how software work is supposed to go and how it actually goes, and what an honest look at that gap teaches you.
A running series about the uncomfortable, unglamorous truths of building software on a team: the features nobody uses, the optimism that papers over real problems, and the rituals we mistake for accountability. Less about code, more about how we actually work.
- Jun 2026
The week the AI went down
A thought experiment: every AI coding assistant goes offline for seven days. How much of what I call my skill is actually mine?
- Jul 2026
Whose name is on it
Code review, QA sign-off, and retros often move responsibility around until nobody is actually holding it.
- Jul 2026
The 0.1x engineer
We have 200 features. Customers use about 20% of them. A throwaway Slack joke turned out to be a surprisingly good engineering philosophy.