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Users buy your service, not your code

2026-02-18 08:00:00

You might enjoy this podcast episode. Sylvain and I talked about owning production in a world where AI writes the code.

GeLLMan amnesia

2026-02-16 08:00:00

AI will automate every job except the ones I'm deeply familiar with

The 3 curves that make a scalable business

2026-02-10 08:00:00

You want users and revenue to grow exponentially. Bugs per day to grow linearly. Support work to grow logarithmically. Your goal is to make this happen.

In praise of the stacked pull request

2026-02-04 08:00:00

How fast you do code review is how fast you do everything. Your PR queue is the leading indicator of team velocity. Stacked PRs can help.

How you migrate is everything

2026-01-31 08:00:00

Your code becomes legacy software when it works. You build something to solve a problem, then the problem changes. Or best practices evolve. Or you hire team members with more experience. Or the world changes. Or you have more people touching the same code and your beautiful architectural vision didn't translate.

The future of software engineering is SRE

2026-01-24 08:00:00

When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.