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Black-and-white illustration of a bearded man in a cap holding an open book while feeding a glowing box labeled 'CAMELCASE ONLY' into a machine, symbolizing standards being made machine-readable.

Your 40-Page Style Guide Isn't a Standard. It's a Wish List.

Why documentation doesn't matter if your AI can't read it

April 30, 2026·3 min read

I was watching the head of architecture demo his team's AI setup when I realized we'd been solving the wrong problem. The style guide wasn't missing. It was invisible.

'AI Wrote It' Is Just the New 'Steve Wrote It'

On blame culture, accountability, and why the author never mattered

April 29, 2026·5 min read

Everyone has worked with a Steve. Now AI is Steve. The lesson isn't about the tool ... it's about what we tolerate.

Most People Use AI Like Google. That's Why It Sucks.

The difference isn't the tool. It's what brain you're pulling from.

April 28, 2026·3 min read

For the first month I treated Copilot like a junior engineer with ambition and no guardrails. It created variables named R and T, broke tests it didn't care about, and left me cleaning up for two hours.

You're Great at Writing Code. That's the Problem.

The skill that made you valuable is becoming table stakes. The new value is orchestration.

April 27, 2026·5 min read

A senior engineer posted on Reddit recently about how it's almost like he's in grief. More than a decade of craft. The things he loved. And now it's all changing.

Tech Debt Didn't Start with AI

It started with you ... and it'll keep going until you own it

April 26, 2026·6 min read

AI is amplifying the technical debt you were already permitting. The slop in your codebase isn't a tool problem ... it's a permission problem.

AI Is Becoming Infrastructure

The conversation you stop having

April 25, 2026·4 min read

We stopped talking about DevOps. Now everything uses it. AI is slowly crossing that same threshold.

AI Needs Curriculum, Not Better Prompts

The vending machine problem

April 24, 2026·4 min read

We treat AI like a vending machine. Prompt in, code out. When it fails, we prompt harder. That's nonsensical.

The Math Doesn't Work

Why large PRs get rubber-stamped while small ones get torn apart

April 23, 2026·6 min read

I built a dashboard to track PR review times. What I found broke my assumptions about code review culture. Large PRs were getting approved almost as fast as small ones ... and that says everything about where we're actually paying attention.

My Junior Can Explain It. My Senior Can Defend It. The AI Just... Did It.

Accountability needs a 'why' AI can't give

April 22, 2026·3 min read

Accountability means knowing why. When AI breaks something, there's no 'why' to interrogate. Until you define it.

I Stopped Trying to Focus

The productivity advice that failed me for 15 years.

April 21, 2026·4 min read

Every productivity system I tried assumed my brain could be disciplined into submission. They were all solving the wrong problem.