Essays

AI made software development easy. Software engineering is still hard — confusing the two is how you ship a fragile prototype.

Writing the code is half the job. The other half is everything that happens between your laptop and production — and most of us skip it.

The productivity gains from AI-assisted coding are real and immediate. Here's the experience that convinced me, and why waiting costs you.

Stripe built one of the best engineering teams in the industry using a simple gut check called the Sunday Test. Here's what it asks.

A photo Voyager 1 took from 6 billion kilometers away, and what it has to do with caring about the work in front of you.

The biggest red flag in an engineer isn't skill. It's not being able to read a document and understand it without someone explaining it.