Code Review Is Broken
Code review as practiced by most teams is a bottleneck that provides less value than we pretend. Small PRs, distributed reviewing, and time SLAs can fix it....
I Work Faster Alone
After 45 years in tech, I know I work faster alone. The collaboration-industrial complex says more interaction is always better. My shipped code says otherwise....
My First Computer
1977 was the year everything started. The Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET created personal computing....
The Real Cost of Cheap GPUs
Alternative GPU clouds really are cheaper per hour than the hyperscalers. The tradeoffs nobody mentions: reliability, security, support....
Agile Is a Cargo Cult
Standups, sprints, and story points without the underlying values. How Agile became a certification industry that produces the opposite of agility....
Debugging Before Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow launched in 2008. For the first thirty years of my career, 'Google the error message' wasn't an option....
The Myth of the 10x Engineer
Stop hunting for 10x engineers. The variation in programmer productivity is real, but team systems beat individual heroics....
What Prodigy Taught Me About Walled Gardens
Prodigy invested $1 billion building walls that collapsed when the open internet arrived. The pattern has repeated with every major walled garden since....
The Rewrite Trap: Why Most Rewrites Fail
Most software rewrites fail quietly, absorbed back into the org or cancelled. Why incremental improvement beats the clean slate....