Make AI Demos Production-Ready: Ship Process, Not Just Code
Demos wow, but launches fail without production-grade process and clear ownership. Here’s how to make AI demos production-ready and ship reliably without fire drills.
Offload coding to AI and Raise Your Altitude: Build Systems, Not Boilerplate
Treat AI as leverage: offload coding to AI so you can focus on architecture, integration, and business outcomes. Ship smarter by orchestrating systems, not grinding boilerplate.
From Simple Points to System Wins: Leverage Points in Complex Systems
Engineers can turn messy systems into assets by hunting leverage points in complex systems—using rules, timing, and exceptions to unlock asymmetric results. This post shows how to run a 30-day experiment for a real win.
Reasoning Beats Ratings: Make Decisions Beyond Ratings for Real Fit
Ratings compress nuance. Learn how to read mid-tier reasoning, map trade-offs to your priorities, and choose tools that truly fit—across coffee gear to LLMs.
Satisficing vs Optimizing: Fit-First Choices That Leave Room for Delight
Stop equating price and stars with better outcomes. This piece applies satisficing vs optimizing to tools, models, and trips so fit, slack, and lower stakes create more joy.
Build Technical Credibility with Engineers by Making the Scaffolding Visible
Engineers judge competence by your scaffolding, not your story. Learn how to build technical credibility with engineers by making assumptions, constraints, interfaces, and risks visible first.
Reduce dependency on AI tools: build resilient workflows that survive outages
Outages shouldn’t freeze your work. Learn how to reduce dependency on AI tools by keeping human baselines, portable prompts, and clear fallback paths so momentum endures.
Code Review Prioritization Framework: Four Lenses for Impact
Effective reviews prioritize impact over volume. This code review prioritization framework uses four lenses to decide what to block now, what to defer, and keep momentum.
Scale Engineering Teams Efficiently: 3 Proven Guardrails
Scaling only works when you reduce complexity, enforce cost and SLO guardrails, and align interfaces. Do that, and you can scale engineering teams efficiently without chaos.
From Outage to Insight: A Risk-Based Testing Strategy for Real Confidence
Stop chasing coverage and start managing risk. This piece shows how a risk-based testing strategy directs effort to fragile, high-impact flows to raise real confidence and ship calmer.