Your pull request review time is mostly waiting and rework
Time to merge is the number teams quote when they say AI review sped things up. It bundles at least three separate costs, and reading the diff is on…
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The Fastest Way to Make Software Slow: Rethinking Rapid Application Development
What Rapid Application Development taught me about speed, trade-offs, classic mistakes, and getting troubled projects back under control. Rapid…
Cutting PR review time is really changing where review happens
Atlassian reports its Rovo Dev AI reviewer cut PR cycle time by up to 45% internally and 32% for customers ( primary source , Jan 2026). That figure…
Engineering Reliability into AI Agent Code Generation. Part III
Part III — Teams of Agents, a Post-Mortem, and the Frontier Part I defined eight failure modes of agent code generation (P1–P8) and drew the archite…
The Warning That Took My Site Down Was in the Log the Whole Time
A few weeks ago, I mistakenly took my own site down for about thirty minutes. I was wiring up a queue-based pipeline for GitHub webhooks. That needs…
Hiring Your First Developer: 5 Questions That Filter Out 80%
Hiring your first developer is the most expensive decision a non-technical founder makes blind. Not because the salary is large — because you have n…
From Supervised to Independent: A Six-Month Framework for Mentoring Engineers
This is about the specific, repeatable mechanics of taking a junior engineer and moving them in roughly six months from "needs review on every task"…