Tag: developer-experience

• Vibe Coding vs Agentic Engineering

  18 July 2026 - Vibe coding and agentic engineering use the same tools but differ on one thing: whether you keep the specify-and-review discipline. The skill teams need is knowing which mode the work...

• Making Impossible States Impossible

  21 July 2025 - Design your data types and APIs so that invalid program states can't be constructed at all. The compiler enforces it for you at build time.

• Cycle Time Isn't Your North Star

  14 July 2025 - Many teams obsess over DORA metrics, but speed alone isn't a strategy. DORA is a speedometer, not a compass, and here's how to anchor measurement in real outcomes.

• Engineering Toil - Seeing the Unseen Work

  23 June 2025 - Toil is the work that keeps systems running and never shows up in a sprint goal. Ignore it long enough and it becomes the defining experience of the team.

• Choose Boring Tech

  19 June 2025 - 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

  17 June 2025 - LLMs work best when you treat them like a junior engineer, not a magic wand. Same standards, same discipline, same reviews.

• Improve LLM prompts using LLMs

  02 June 2025 - Small changes to a prompt often make a large difference to the output. This is the workflow I use to improve my own prompts, especially for technical tasks.