Experience—
Born without a street
Hospitality inherited foot traffic. Six months into the industry, I'm still working out what happens now that the street no longer answers who will walk through the door.
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Thoughts on engineering, leadership, and the craft of software.
Engineering—
Architecture without phases is just a diagram
The target architecture was usually clear. The route there rarely accounted for the team doing the work.
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What a strange correlation can and can't tell you
A pile of moderation reports taught me that finding a useful correlation is only the beginning. You still have to decide whether to use it.
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AI coding advice is rediscovering the Agile Manifesto
AI coding advice is rediscovering an old lesson: clear code, visible architecture, and useful tests beat another page of instructions.
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What AI coding taught me about micromanagement
We spent years complaining about micromanagers, then gave AI the same over-specified briefs and bloated documentation.
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Micro-frontends won't fix your monolith
A tangled frontend can make every change expensive. Splitting the deployment may only move the coordination work somewhere else.
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Trust wasn't the first thing this team could fix
A struggling engineering group tried the trust exercises. Three months later, people were still hoarding information and second-guessing decisions.
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Trust isn't a gift you give on day one
On day one, a manager can offer room, support, and the benefit of the doubt. Trust grows from what happens next.
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AI coding is a trust problem
AI taught me to ask how a confident claim was checked. The same question exposes weak feedback loops in teams and leadership.
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Onboarding is a feedback loop for organizational health
A new hire notices the problems everyone else has learned to step around. Their first month is organizational feedback, if anyone is willing to hear it.
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