Engineering Team Leaderboard: Motivation or Toxicity?
Few topics divide engineering managers as much as leaderboards. On one side, the advocates: "Visibility creates motivation — top performers love bei…
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The Ecology of Engineering Teams
Over the past several weeks, I've introduced five engineering archetypes that I've encountered throughout my career: The Gardener The Mason The Blac…
Writing the code is no longer the bottleneck
The industry's currently obsessed with how fast we can generate code. Every morning in our engineering general channel on Microsoft Teams, someone's…
Your AI-generated post-mortem is just a fancy way of hiding the truth
I read a post on Lobste.rs last week about dreading our LLM-written incident report future, and it hit a massive nerve. We've reached a point where…
What Developer Experience Actually Means
Originally published on robatdasorvi.com The onboarding doc said three steps. By step two, I had a broken Homebrew dependency, two conflicting Node…
Archetype: The Bear Killer
Years ago, an old boss described a friend of mine in a way I've never forgotten. Whenever a team ran into a problem they couldn't solve—or had simpl…