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We replaced squads with single owners
Because one mind was always the ideal
Aug 17 • charles
AI is your engineering execution capacity now
Because your engineering capacity is only bound by how many tokens you are willing to spend
Aug 17 • charles
Managing context for complex policy
Because with the right harness you make your LLM follow the rules
Aug 17 • charles
Specialized models are viable for real engineering work
Because you don't need the frontier model for everything
Aug 17 • charles
AI is more qualified to approve PRs than you are
Because humans were already rubbish at code review
Aug 17 • charles
The AI-Pilled 4 Yorkshiremen (Tech Exec Edition)
Because the AI era requires some good-humored fatalism
Aug 17 • charles
The AI can do it
Because we are conditioned to assume that we are special
Aug 17 • charles
Integrations in the Age of AI
Because the AI is happy to make up what it can't find
Aug 17 • charles

May 2026

AI-Managed Infrastructure
Because Terraform was never meant for humans
May 13 • charles

April 2026

CI in Agentic Times
Because agents actually follow up on clean up work
Apr 29 • charles
AI is a new substrate for Algorithms
Because we all wanted a new edition of Cracking the Coding Interview
Apr 28 • charles
Self-Healing DX Pipelines
Because we can afford to measure new things if our metrics pipelines maintain themselves
Apr 27 • charles
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