Writing
Essays, notes, and working observations in one stream. Some are argued out fully; some are just useful enough to keep.
- AI engineering is software engineering with one extra API call The hard parts were never the model. note / ai
- Nobody owns the boring half Migrations, cleanup, the ticket nobody wants. note / practice
- Standards that are really suggestions Style guides nobody's blocked a PR on. note / systems
- How to answer without being useless On giving people something they can act on. note / misc
- The on-call rotation is a management tool It gets sold as engineering hygiene. It is really organizational telemetry. essay / practice
- Ran out of milk, made the coffee anyway Small domestic failures and what fixes them. note / personal
- The bug was a calendar, not a bug DST again. It's always DST. note / systems
- A week off the pager What I noticed about my own attention. note / personal
- What "production-ready" actually verifies Not that it works. That someone is willing to be paged for it. essay / systems
- Grep before you architect Most "redesigns" are a search you didn't run. note / practice
- What LLMs are actually bad at reviewing Confidence and correctness aren't the same signal. note / ai
- Moved a plant, it lived Lower the stakes on purpose sometimes. note / personal
- Roaming: a case for generalists on senior teams Specialization is a bet that the problem holds still long enough to be worth it. essay / career
- Postmortems nobody reads The document isn't the deliverable. The changed reflex is. essay / practice
- The interview problem is a proxy for a worse one You're testing for whether they'll tell you it's wrong. essay / hiring