Tag: software-engineering

  • 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...

  • Don't Improve Coordination, Eliminate It

    - If you want to know how healthy your engineering org is, count the meetings on your calendar. Or better yet, count the ones labelled 'cross-team sync'. As dependencies grow, so...

  • Doing Leveraged Work

    - For Staff and Principal Engineers, the goal is to identify and deliver leveraged work, efforts that multiply both throughput and quality across the organisation.