In 1982, skaters were talking about a trick that couldn’t be done. The board had to wrap vertically around your back foot — a full rotation on an axis no skateboard wants to spin on. They didn’t even bother naming it properly. They just called ...

There’s a specific kind of anxiety that hits at 11 PM when you’re scrolling through someone’s thread about the AI workflow that supposedly changed everything. You were productive today. You shipped code. But now you’re wondering if the way you shippe...

I’ve spent my career fighting for clean code. In code reviews, in architecture meetings, in those long debates about naming conventions that everyone pretends to hate but secretly cares about. Readable code. Well-structured code. Code that respects t...

I’ve spent my career fighting for clean code. In code reviews, in architecture meetings, in those long debates about naming conventions that everyone pretends to hate but secretly cares about. Readable code. Well-structured code. Code that respects t...

I’ve spent my career fighting for clean code. In code reviews, in architecture meetings, in those long debates about naming conventions that everyone pretends to hate but secretly cares about. Readable code. Well-structured code. Code that respects t...

I’ve spent my career fighting for clean code. In code reviews, in architecture meetings, in those long debates about naming conventions that everyone pretends to hate but secretly cares about. Readable code. Well-structured code. Code that respects t...

I’ve spent my career fighting for clean code. In code reviews, in architecture meetings, in those long debates about naming conventions that everyone pretends to hate but secretly cares about. Readable code. Well-structured code. Code that respects t...

I’ve spent my career fighting for clean code. In code reviews, in architecture meetings, in those long debates about naming conventions that everyone pretends to hate but secretly cares about. Readable code. Well-structured code. Code that respects t...

Why working code without architecture predictably collapses — and what to do about it. Prefer watching? The full video covers everything in this post — with visuals and code walkthroughs. The Code That Almost Took Down Black Friday This code passe...

Here’s a pattern I keep seeing (and living): A feature that would have taken 2-3 weeks gets estimated at “2 days with AI.” It ships in 4. Sometimes 5. Not because the AI was slow. Because there are three other “2-day AI projec...

Here’s a pattern I keep seeing (and living): A feature that would have taken 2-3 weeks gets estimated at “2 days with AI.” It ships in 4. Sometimes 5. Not because the AI was slow. Because there are three other “2-day AI projec...

Last week I spent 3 hours reviewing code that took 20 minutes to write. The AI was faster. The review wasn’t. And I’m starting to realize: that’s the problem. “Less coding, more engineering.” I keep hearing this phrase...

I wrote recently about the developer identity crisis. The weird feeling of watching AI do the work we spent years learning to do ourselves. But naming the problem isn’t enough. I’ve been thinking about what to actually do about it. Wh...

I keep seeing variations of this pitch everywhere: “A bug report hits Jira at 3 AM? Your autonomous agent wakes up, reproduces it, writes the fix, and opens the PR before your alarm goes off.” That’s from Zencoder’s mar...