Connecting two systems was once the work. It is now the part a machine can do. What remains is the part that was always the point. Some time ago, I argued that the market does not pay for tool lists. The argument has aged in an unexpected direction....
Why capable data and platform engineers stay invisible, underpaid, and afraid to apply There is a quiet fear in the current technology job market. Many people who are entirely capable of doing the work do not apply for it. They read a job description...
A practical guide to spec-driven development — built around one real website, so you can follow along and try it yourself. If you have used an AI coding agent, you already know the feeling. You type “add a contact form to my page” and look at what co...
This is a story. The two men in it do not exist. Everything that happens to them does. Year One They had studied together, and so once a year or so they met at the same café near the old university, ordered the same coffee, and compared the shape of...
Something is broken in how roles are advertised, and it is worth naming plainly, because most of you are blaming the wrong party for it. When you read a posting and feel that you do not qualify, the instinct is to assume the gap is in you. In most ca...
If you have spent twenty years writing tests for data pipelines, you carry a mental model of what a passing test means. The input is fixed. The function is deterministic. The output is predictable. You assert that the output equals what you expect, t...
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”George Box A short note before the piece. Starting next week, this newsletter will run on a steady rhythm: a short, practical piece every Tuesday and a long, structural piece every Saturday. The Saturday is...
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”Alvin Toffler Open any job board, scroll any LinkedIn feed, sit through any earnings call, and you will run into the sa...
Companies are laying off experienced architects and doubling down on offshore coding teams — at the exact moment AI is automating the implementation work those teams do. The math says AI-augmented senior teams are cheaper and better than offshoring....
Every enterprise AI strategy deck I have seen in the past years contains the same promise: “We will build a RAG-based knowledge assistant that lets employees query our internal documents in natural language.” The board nods. The budget gets approved....