Tag: developer-experience

  • Engineering Toil - Seeing the Unseen Work

    - It's easy to admire the peak moments in engineering: shipping features, the incident recovery, the burst of innovation after months of foundational work. But beneath the visible achievements sits something...

  • Choose Boring Tech

    - This isn't new advice, but some reminders deserve another run: choose boring tech if you're in the business of product engineering.

  • From Scepticism to Collaboration with LLMs

    - Modern LLMs are reshaping software practice, for better or worse. I began doubtful over the promise of instant productivity with these tools, but over time I've arrived at a surprising...

  • Improve LLM prompts using LLMs

    - Experimenting with ways to improve how I interact with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Prompting is a surprisingly high-leverage task, where small tweaks often lead to disproportionately better results....