Archive
Everything I have written here, newest first. Yearly, in one list.
202626
- AI is breaking our proxies for expertiseSignals
- Building in public without a megaphoneNotes
- The context window is a budget, not a containerNotes
- Workflow or agent, and why the distinction mattersSignals
- Budget the context before adding toolsPlaybooks
- I stopped drawing sequence diagrams firstNotes
- Don't build tools for AI agentsSignals
- The cost of a half-finished abstractionNotes
- AGENTS.md is the new READMENotes
- Engineer away the slopSignals
- Architecture Is a Story About TrustEssays
- Idempotency before retriesPlaybooks
- What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?Signals
- Slow developer experience will bottleneck fast modelsSignals
- p99 is a team boundary, not a metricNotes
- Leaving the Big Company, SlowlyEssays
- Measure before cachingPlaybooks
- What I want from an agent harnessNotes
- Scale Is a Sequence, Not a DestinationEssays
- One writer per tablePlaybooks
- The Agent-Shaped CodebaseEssays
- Outbox before dual writesPlaybooks
- Kafka consumers I have regrettedNotes
- The Review Is the WorkEssays
- Read replicas before shardingPlaybooks
- Watch read replicas stop helpingEssays