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…
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Code Review Gone Wrong
Originally published on lavkesh.com I was working on a project with a tight deadline when my team lead asked me to review a colleague's code. The code…
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…
What a meeting‑free week taught me about leading
Originally published on lavkesh.com When I cleared my calendar for a full week, the silence in the conference room felt like a sudden vacuum that made…
The Hidden Cost of Employees Asking "What Should I Do Next?"
Every growing company reaches a point where people start asking the same questions over and over again. "How do I process this request?" "Who approves…
Why Your AI Transformation Is Stalling at Middle Management
Why Your AI Transformation Is Stalling at Middle Management The C-suite is excited. The developers are excited. The people in between have misaligned …
All In or Not At All
I have never been good with middle grounds. I like things clear. Black or White, Zero or One, True or False. Maybe that is why computers made sense to…
When Leaders Ignore the No Asshole Rule
Originally published on Rough Edges . There's a pattern I've watched play out in more than one organization. From a distance it looks like high perfor…
How I Assess Engineering Health in My First Week at a New Org
The diagnostic framework I run every time I join a new engineering organization, and why the data is only half the picture. The first week at a new co…
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 …
Error Budget Policies That Hold Leadership Accountable
Error budgets are useless without a policy. 'We're out of error budget' should trigger consequences. If it doesn't, you don't have an error budget — y…
"This cannot continue": Xbox leaders lay out "hard truths" behind sagging brand
Brutal self-assessment paints a picture of a Microsoft gaming division in crisis.
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 First 72 Hours as a CTO Decide Your First 90 Days. Most People Waste Them.
There's a moment every new CTO knows. It's your first Monday. You have admin access, a calendar full of introductions, and a head full of opinions abo…
Merge Standards That Actually Get Followed
When a PR on my team crosses 500 changes, it gets the same response every time: this one's too big...let's break it down. I don't enjoy being the line…
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…
Cost of Delay
The Cost Nobody Tracks A team needed feedback from users. The proposed solution was technically sound: flexible question types flexible answer types r…
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…
The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Now Available at Enterprise Scale
The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Now Available at Enterprise Scale The research is starting to coalesce, with different angles on whether AI is degrading hu…
The 5x Engineering Manager
EARLY IN MY CAREER , my team had a software engineer who shipped a quarter's worth of stories in a sprint, refactored the build pipeline on a Friday a…
People Without Dirty Hands Are Wrong
A Tale of Two Managers Erin Erin was a newly-promoted manager over a software engineering team. She had been hired 5 years ago as a junior developer a…
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…
Incident Command: The Skills They Don't Teach You
Running a production incident is a skill. Most of the skill isn't technical. Here's what nobody told me when I started running incidents. Skill 1: Cal…
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…
How to turn invisible impact into career growth
A lot of the work that keeps a team moving never fits neatly into a ticket. Sure, you have your assigned tasks, estimates, PRs, and shipped features. …
What Awnings Taught Me About Developer Experience
Here in the U.S. we have a fast-food chain called Chick-fil-A . Its claim to fame isn't actually its food (though it's quite tasty!), but its commitme…
Your AI Coding ROI Is Disappearing and Your Dashboard Won't Tell You
Your AI Coding ROI Is Disappearing and Your Dashboard Won't Tell You The dashboard looks great. The delivery numbers don't. Your AI coding dashboard l…