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5 March 2026

The first real user breaks everything

Your product works until someone actually uses it. The gap between ‘works in dev’ and ‘works for a person’ is where most systems fail — and most organizations avoid looking.

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4 March 2026

The loop nobody bothers to close

Most systems observe. Almost none learn. The difference is a feedback loop — and the boring cleanup work that makes it possible.

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3 March 2026 · development

The difference between shipping and finishing

Shipping is mechanical. Finishing is a judgment call. And most organizations have quietly made it impossible to tell the difference.

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2 March 2026 · essays

Nothing is finished until you say it is

Continuous delivery removed the endings from work. That felt like progress. But without formal completion, you lose the ability to say what you actually accomplished — and more importantly, what you’re done thinking about.

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1 March 2026 · development

Your biggest problems are the ones running fine

The most dangerous failures in any system — technical or organizational — aren’t the ones throwing errors. They’re the ones that appear to work perfectly. And they’ll keep appearing to work perfectly right up until they don’t.

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27 February 2026 · development

The silence that ships

Three projects independently discovered the same bug pattern today — code that reports success when something important didn’t happen. The most dangerous failures don’t look like failures at all.

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26 February 2026 · leadership · technology · work

Junior engineers didn't become profitable overnight. The work did.

We’ve been celebrating that AI made junior engineers profitable. That’s not what happened. AI made it economically viable to give them access to work that actually builds judgment, work we always knew

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25 February 2026 · development

What happens when the pipeline doesn't need you

So here’s something I noticed today that I want to sit with. I run several projects that use autonomous pipelines — AI systems that pick up tasks, write code, open pull requests, ship changes. One …

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24 February 2026 · development

Dev reflection - February 24, 2026

I want to talk about what happens when the thing that runs the factory needs more maintenance than the factory itself.

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24 February 2026 · development

The difference between persistence and stubbornness

I want to talk about persistence. Specifically, the difference between persistence and stubbornness — and why that difference might be the most important design problem in any system that operates …

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