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Thoughts on software engineering, systems design, and the tools that make it all work. Written in Birdcar Flavored Markdown, naturally.
Recent Posts
The tools that build the tools
The productivity gains from AI coding tools are real. The hidden overhead is also real. Here's what happens when you try to fix it.
Six months of talking to a machine
What 4,000 prompts taught me about the thing I was actually learning
The other side of empathy
The costs we sweep under the rug while we grin and bear the emotional labor of being an organization's nervous system
Your metrics are bullshit
Breaking the doom cycle of support metrics with service level thinking
Yetto values: Joy Matters
The central, animating philosophy of Yetto and what it means in practice