principles
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The hype cycle is over, and the dashboard is flashing red. New forensic data from 2025 reveals a harsh truth: AI is making us type 55% faster but ship 19% slower on complex tasks. We are trading cheap syntax for expensive debugging. It’s time to stop “Vibe Coding” and face the physics of software delivery.
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Build for Today or Don’t Build at All
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4 min read
Designing for a million users when you have ten isn’t strategy; it’s vanity. We hide fear behind “best practices” like microservices and complex abstractions, paying a tax on velocity for problems we don’t have yet. Stop hedging your bets. If you build the perfect architecture for a product that never launches, you’ve just future-proofed a…
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The Trap of the Hero
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6 min read
I saved the biggest demo in our company’s history at 3:00 AM the night before the meeting. I felt like a god. I thought I was the glue holding the business together. It took me five years to realize the truth: I wasn’t the glue. I was the bottleneck. We need to talk about the…
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Good documentation is more than just a chore; it’s a strategic asset that can transform how your engineering team operates. Far too often, documentation is viewed as an afterthought, something to be done only when absolutely necessary, or worse, not at all. But what if we reframed our perspective? The Hidden Power of Good Documentation…