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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Building a Hiring Plan That Survives Budget Cuts
Most hiring plans are built during optimistic periods, growth is projected, budget is approved, and a headcount plan gets laid out for the year. The p…
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…
Code Review, Part 2: The Reviewer That Learned To Lie Better
Several posts ago, I wrote about setting up a multi-agent adversarial code review process as part of my development pipeline. The premise came from a …
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 …
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 …
The Sword of Damocles at Work: The Human Cost of Delayed Layoffs
Over a decade ago, my employer announced layoffs that would happen in waves. Every few months another round arrived. Nobody knew the criteria, who wou…
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…
Chapter 7. Stage 2 - Wedge
7.0 What Wedge Means The Wedge stage begins when a company has found something real - a specific customer segment, a specific problem, and design part…
Hi, I'm Jens
Hi, I'm Jens I'm a cross-platform mobile engineer and Tech Lead at November Five. Day to day that means leading a team of four to six engineers and a …
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…
tgo Devlog #3: Taming Context Windows, Compiling Lodash, and the Repetitive Reality of True Ownership
I’ve been making massive headway on tgo, my TypeScript to Go compiler library, but it is forcing me to confront some hard realities about how I manage…
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…
Agile Is Not Broken — Your Portfolio Is
Let’s be honest. Agile isn’t failing in your organization. Your portfolio management is. Most Agile transformations focus on teams: Scrum ceremonies b…
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. …
What Predictability Actually Measures (and Why Velocity Is the Wrong Question)
Why I invented a metric I'd never heard of, and why the industry eventually caught up. I started using the term "predictability" in 2019, and I was pr…
Burnout in senior engineers is usually structural, not personal
For years I treated burnout as a personal failing. If I was tired, I needed more sleep. If I was anxious on Sunday night, I needed to meditate. If I d…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…