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 callThe hard parts were never the model.note / ai
- Nobody owns the boring halfMigrations, cleanup, the ticket nobody wants.note / practice
- Standards that are really suggestionsStyle guides nobody's blocked a PR on.note / systems
- How to answer without being uselessOn giving people something they can act on.note / misc
- The on-call rotation is a management toolIt gets sold as engineering hygiene. It is really organizational telemetry.essay / practice
- Ran out of milk, made the coffee anywaySmall domestic failures and what fixes them.note / personal
- The bug was a calendar, not a bugDST again. It's always DST.note / systems
- A week off the pagerWhat I noticed about my own attention.note / personal
- What "production-ready" actually verifiesNot that it works. That someone is willing to be paged for it.essay / systems
- Grep before you architectMost "redesigns" are a search you didn't run.note / practice
- What LLMs are actually bad at reviewingConfidence and correctness aren't the same signal.note / ai
- Moved a plant, it livedLower the stakes on purpose sometimes.note / personal
- Roaming: a case for generalists on senior teamsSpecialization is a bet that the problem holds still long enough to be worth it.essay / career
- Postmortems nobody readsThe document isn't the deliverable. The changed reflex is.essay / practice
- The interview problem is a proxy for a worse oneYou're testing for whether they'll tell you it's wrong.essay / hiring