software engineering
13 articles tagged with "software engineering"
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The Byzantine Colleague - Why the Node That Won't Stop Is Worse Than the One That Dies
The industry keeps the wrong failure model for its worst people. A machine that crashes is honest and cheap. The expensive failure is the one that stays up and keeps participating, and we have known this about computers since 1982.
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The Cost of Being Indispensable - Why Great Employees Might Get Stuck in Their Role
How thousands of sensible decisions quietly turn an exceptional employee into a load-bearing one, and why becoming indispensable is the surest way to never get promoted.
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We Gave Every Engineer a Bigger Brain and Forgot the Company Needs a Nervous System
Or, the Quiet Horror of a Thousand Geniuses Generating Legacy Code in a Vacuum.
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We Finally Made Code Easy Enough That the Human Part of Engineering Became Impossible to Ignore
AI increased output. It also made coordination, trust, and emotional intelligence the limiting factor in engineering teams
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How to Properly Craft an AI Product, or What Remains When the Model Catches Up
On building something the baseline cannot replicate.
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The Orchestrator’s Era
Or What Remains After Syntax Becomes Cheap.
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Leadership Without Permission and the Strange Burden of Seeing Clearly
An exploration of how technical leadership emerges without formal authority, and why clarity, influence, and the willingness to absorb ambiguity matter more than titles when systems need direction.
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The Engineer as a Perpetual Learner - Why learning is the job and how to build a system that keeps you becoming
A reflection on how AI is transforming software engineering by handling routine tasks, allowing developers to focus on higher-level system thinking and architectural decisions.
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You're Not Being Replaced by AI. You're Being Freed to Think Again
A reflection on how AI is transforming software engineering by handling routine tasks, allowing developers to focus on higher-level system thinking and architectural decisions.
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It's always a people problem - Why Code Is Never the Real Problem
A deep dive into why technical excellence alone isn't enough in software engineering, and how understanding human problems is the key to building systems that last. Explores the journey from code-focused engineer to system-thinking architect.
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Dunning-Kruger Driven Development
The inevitable result of an industry where "it works" gets conflated with "it will last," or worse, "it is safe."