The 0.1x engineer
We have 200 features. Customers use about 20% of them. A throwaway Slack joke turned out to be a surprisingly good engineering philosophy.
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The honest engineer 3 posts
Notes on engineering culture: the gap between how software work is supposed to go and how it actually goes, and what an honest look at that gap teaches you.
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- Jul 2026
Whose name is on it
Code review, QA sign-off, and retros often move responsibility around until nobody is actually holding it.
- Jun 2026
The week the AI went down
A thought experiment: every AI coding assistant goes offline for seven days. How much of what I call my skill is actually mine?