Most People Use AI Like Google. That's Why It Sucks.
For the first month I treated Copilot like a junior engineer with ambition and no guardrails. It would write code I never asked for. I'd be halfway th…
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What Good Technical Communities Should Actually Organize in 2026
Not every community needs more generic webinars. The best ones build formats that create real momentum for their members. A lot of technical communiti…
Ownership starts before anyone asks
I used to think helping meant doing what I was told. Hand me the tool. Hold this board. Cut here. Task completed. But I’ve come to see a different for…
Leadership Micro Katas
About twenty years ago, I broke production. I was a young developer, the rollback was slow, and for a few hours, I was sure the company would close be…
Tech Debt Didn't Start with AI
There once was a junior who spent a week on one unit test. Thirty-seven commits. Each one broken. His senior approved the thirty-seventh because the s…
AI Is Becoming Infrastructure
I was talking to a tech lead a couple of months ago, over drinks. Someone who's been shipping production code for over twenty years. I asked him, almo…
AI Needs Curriculum, Not Better Prompts
You've been there. The prompt that should work. The rephrase that feels clever. The context you're sure will fix it this time. And the AI just keeps b…
Full Attendance, Zero Presence
Five minutes after the all-hands, someone asks me in the hallway, "What did he mean by that?" Then another person: "So what are we actually supposed t…
My Junior Can Explain It. My Senior Can Defend It. The AI Just... Did It.
Ninety-four percent test coverage on our React component library. Storybook running clean. The kind of coverage that lets you sleep at night when you'…
You Cannot Mandate Your Way to AI Adoption
Most AI adoption strategies in engineering organizations are failing for one of three reasons: leadership mandates tool usage, tracks individual adopt…
Structure-Driven Engineering Organization Theory #6 — Designing Interventions (1-on-1 / Pair Programming)
Six months of weekly "how are things going?" 1-on-1s won't move the organization one millimeter — the intervention is trapped at the behavior layer. T…
AI Isn't a Crutch for Bad Developers ... It's the Unlock for Neurodivergent Ones
I was sitting at my desk at 10:47 PM on a Tuesday, Cursor open in front of me, when I finally understood what had been happening for months. My hands …
Everyone's Using AI. No One Agrees How.
I got a DM from a principal engineer last week. He's spending more than $2,000 a month on AI tokens. Not because he's lazy. Because he's figured somet…
Structure-Driven Engineering Organization Theory #5 — Product-Organization Isomorphism
Wherever the product's UX is broken, the organization is hollow in the same place. Product and organization break symmetrically and heal symmetrically…
Student-Led Campaigns That Successfully Reduced Bullying
Bullying prevention has traditionally been driven by teachers and school policies. However, schools are increasingly recognizing the powerful role stu…
Structure-Driven Organization Theory #3 — A Structural Model of People
Ability lives inside, so it can't be seen. Contribution to structure remains outside, so it can be seen. Reframe people not as abilities but as types.…
Structure-Driven Organization Theory #2 — Output as Structure
Measure code not at the moment it's written, but by what happened after. What remains is structure. Is Code an Artifact, or a Structure? Ask most orga…
Structure-Driven Organization Theory #1 — The Concept of Observation
Evaluation is price-setting. Observation is reading. Get the entry point wrong and wherever you arrive, you end up back at evaluation. Why Start With …
Structure-Driven Engineering Organization Theory #0 — Why Existing Org Theory Doesn't Work
Observation, not evaluation. Structure, not people. Design, not emotion. What This Book Is About Engineering org theory has, for a long time, taken pe…
AI Code Without Governance Is Now a Legal Liability
AI Code Without Governance Is Now a Legal Liability Your engineering team merged 200 pull requests last week. Half of them were written or heavily ass…
Episode 2 : From Prompts to Production, Agentic AI for Product Ownership
Over the past year, Product Owners (POs) and Business Analysts have eagerly adopted Generative AI to accelerate their daily workflows. We’ve all paste…