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- The Friction That Made Us Talk Engineers want to solve their own problems, and AI made acting on that motivation cheap. Alignment used to happen before any code. Now it happens after the tools have shipped.
- Learn Your Tools If you don't know how your tools work, you're guessing. Learn the seams.
- Speak For Yourself Your screenshot is not an argument. Tell me what you think.
- Your Stakeholders Have Stakeholders (And They All Want Different Things) I had a plan to fix the Swift migration. I had executive buy-in. Engineers agreed it was a good idea. But this was COVID. Food delivery was exploding. And feature velocity was the only metric that mattered.
- Platform Engineering is Archaeology with Deadlines I joined a company in 2019 to build a bank. COVID killed that project. I got moved to a food delivery app with 1.3 million lines of code, 750k still in Objective-C, and a Swift migration that had stalled for two years.