Faster PRs, Weaker Instincts: The Judgment Problem in AI-Assisted Engineering
I thought the dashboard was telling me good news. My team had adopted AI-assisted coding quickly, and for a while it looked like exactly what everyone…
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10 AI Prompts I Use as an Engineering Manager (1:1s, Postmortems, Performance Reviews)
10 AI Prompts I Use as an Engineering Manager I've managed engineering teams for long enough to know the pattern: half of the job is technical decisio…
Top 26 Engineering Newsletters Actually Worth Your Inbox
Everyone recommends ByteByteGo and The Pragmatic Engineer. Don't get me wrong, they're great... but the best engineering writing of the last two years…
The Most Critical Architecture in Tech: Psychological Safety
Every engineer knows that sudden, cold dread when a production build breaks. But what happens after the break tells you everything about your engineer…
ROI of AI Test Automation: A Calculation Framework for QA Leaders
Every QA leader has faced the same conversation. Leadership asks: "What are we getting for our automation investment?" And the honest answer is often …
Non-determinism is the job
Early in my career, and partially because I worked at a place that was a little silly and I didn't have much contact outside the organization, my titl…
Why Federal Reform Picks AI‑Native Outcome Integrators
Executive summary Federal procurement is shifting from labor-based buys toward fixed-price, outcome-focused contracts—and that change alters who wins …
Chapter 9. Stage 4 - Scale
9.0 What Scale Means The Scale stage begins when a B2B Enterprise company has built a working engine - a repeatable wedge, a predictable demand system…
The Fractional CTO Guide: How to Audit Your Business for AI Automation ROI
It's an exciting time to be in tech, with AI making headlines daily and business leaders eager to leverage its power. Yet, as a Senior IT Consultant a…
Chapter 8. Stage 3 - Engine
8.0 What Engine Means The Engine stage begins when a B2B Enterprise company has a repeatable wedge - a defined ICP, a sales motion that closes deals w…
How to Improve Collaboration between Developers and Product Teams?
Product teams and developers rarely struggle because they disagree on the goal. More often, they struggle because they interpret priorities differentl…
The Finding Nobody Implemented
The DORA research said culture predicts engineering performance. Nicole Forsgren's most important finding never made it into a single commercial produ…
BFSI Is Madly Innovative (Contrary to What One Might Think)
A Personal Reckoning with BFSI Innovation A few months ago, in a room full of startup founders and tech investors, someone casually said, "There's no …
Your Cloud AI Has No Failover. Here's the Architecture That Does.
Your Cloud AI Has No Failover. Here's the Architecture That Does. Local models keep closing (or all but eliminating) their gap with frontier models. O…
If you knew how hard It was, would you still start?
The most honest thing I read about building a company this year wasn't from a venture capitalist, a founder on stage, or a bestselling business book. …
Chapter 4. The CPMO Loop
4.0 Why a Loop, and Why These Five Stages Every operating playbook needs a spine. A spine is the framework the rest of the document references - the s…
First On Call
Originally published on lavkesh.com I still remember my first on-call rotation vividly. It was a chaotic experience that started with a page at 3am, a…
Okay, But I'm Still Using It
Where I'm actually deploying AI coding tools at my next organization, and why. If you read my last post, you know I'm not a believer in the uncritical…
Why Your Business Needs an AI Integration Strategy (Not Just an AI Tool)
The hype cycle for AI adoption in businesses often follows a familiar, and often frustrating, trajectory. It begins with the undeniable allure of a po…
I Lead AI Agents Every Day - Here Are 5 Shifts No Standard Tells You How to Make
A Google DeepMind safety lead said this week that they're putting $10M behind multi-agent safety because "there just isn't really a field of research …
In the Beginning Was the Word
Why your organization's source of truth isn't your database it's your conversation Every organization already contains its operational state. It is no…
The Coordination Cost: What Nobody Measures When They Add Another Tool
Every tool your team uses has a price tag. Most of it doesn't appear on any invoice. I've spent a lot of time in the last few years helping organizati…
Turning Kiro Into a Leadership Coach With Meeting Transcripts
As an Engineering Manager in a Platform team, I manage 10 engineers. I'm hiring more. I run weekly 1:1s, facilitate technical decision meetings, scree…
One AI Vendor Is a Single Point of Failure. Treat It Like One.
One AI Vendor Is a Single Point of Failure. Treat It Like One. The AI model you built your workflow on today may be indistinguishable from its competi…
Your Retention Problem Is a Manager Problem.
Gallup has been running the same finding for twenty years. Seventy percent of the variance in team engagement is explained by the manager. Not the ben…
AI Velocity Is Breaking Your Code Quality Standards
TL;DR: AI coding tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code are accelerating development velocity to levels no PR review process can match. The resul…
The Engineering Manager Is the Most Informed Person in the AI Room
Engineering managers are almost entirely absent from the AI transformation discourse. There's a structural reason for that, and understanding it is th…
Why Getting a Tech Job Right Now Feels Broken?
Hey friends. Let's have an honest conversation about landing a tech job in the current market in 2026. The reality is that securing even a first inter…
Quiet Exits, Quiet Collapse (Part 2): How Organizations Remove People without Signal
What the system loses when the exit completes — and why it cannot measure the loss. The morning after the exit, the organization continues. Emails are…
DevOps Consulting: How to Evaluate a Partner Before You Engage
Most DevOps engagements don't fail because of bad tooling. They fail because the wrong firm was chosen. The pattern shows up the same way every time. …