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Designing Systems for companies that don’t exist
Every architecture decision I make comes with a second document nobody asked for. Not the system diagram. The org chart the system will eventually force… Read more
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The Depreciation Nobody Books
The CFO asked me why we needed to spend €2M on a foundational piece of the platform nobody would see. I explained the architecture. She… Read more
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What I would tell the Board
I have given many board updates on technology. I have been honest in all of them. I have also, in all of them, chosen which… Read more
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Why Agents are Slowing Us Down (and Why That’s Okay)
I’ve seen more posts then I care for where someone proudly presents a dashboard tracking “tokens consumed” as the team’s primary AI productivity metric. Not… Read more
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AI Coding Tools: a bit of a time machine
I think that most people can relate. Over time my career and role shifted. Less time building things directly, more time designing systems, reviewing architectures,… Read more
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The Second Opinion that wasn’t
You asked ChatGPT whether your strategy made sense. It gave you five well-reasoned paragraphs explaining why it did. You felt better. That feeling is the… Read more
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Why Single-Lens thinking is harming your Architecture Decisions
# Why Single-Lens thinking is harming your Architecture Decisions During summer when the mosquitos were swarming around our farm, a dragonfly hovered right in front… Read more
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The Slow Death of the Developer Who Knows Why Things Work
I’ve spent the last few weeks navigating two different kinds of grief. One is personal. The other is professional: watching the slow, agonizing death of… Read more
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Can you handle it?
The current evolution from prompt engineering to autonomous AI agents has accidentally validated decades of management theory. These latest generation of AI… Read more
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Escaping the Feature Factory
We spent the last decade obsessing over speed. We adopted Agile, we SCRUMmed, did the DevOps, and we measured our success by velocity and deployment… Read more