Lessons From Rolling Out an AI Harness on a Legacy Codebase
Review comments per PR fell from 5.3 to 0.35. A backend module estimated at 7 to 10 days shipped in 2. The most useful lessons, though, came from the places where I was wrong.
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The Shifts I'm Seeing in 2026
Developers are leaving the IDE. Designers are writing Claude Code skills. Product managers are shipping PRs instead of Jira tickets. I watched all three happen in the past month.
Why I'm Finally Building in Public
After nearly two decades of building products behind closed doors, I'm opening up. Here's what changed, and why now.
What Good Teams Actually Look Like
After building and leading teams for over a decade, here are the patterns that separate great teams from the rest. Spoiler: it's not about the tech stack.
AI Changed How I Build. Here's What I Actually Do Differently.
Not the hype version. The practical reality of integrating AI tools into a 19-year workflow of shipping products.
50 Talks and Zero Blog Posts: A Retrospective
I gave 50+ technical talks but never wrote them down. Here's what that taught me about shipping your ideas vs hoarding them.
What 70 Technical Interviews Taught Me About People
I interviewed 70 developers in one year. The JavaScript questions were the least interesting part.
Lessons from 200 Million Lines of Code
What happens when you try to map the technical knowledge of 2,500 people across 150 products. The tools were the easy part.