ENGINEERING · 4 POSTS
AI, pointed at the codebase.
How software gets built now AI is in the loop, and what that does to the people building it. Agents, code review, hiring, tech debt and leading a team through all of it.
How software gets built now AI is in the loop, and what that does to the people building it. Agents, code review, hiring, tech debt and leading a team through all of it.
My stack used to assume I was at the desk. The useful tools now keep going when I'm not. Markdown in Obsidian, synced to GitHub. A bot with its own computer. That's the filter.
AI makes it tempting to hire fewer junior developers. That might save time now and create a much bigger problem later.
We blame engineers for messy code. But tech debt is usually a symptom of decisions made (or avoided) higher up.
Scaling a mobile team takes more than tech skills. Here's what I've learnt about leadership the hard way.