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Ms. Frizzle would be a great SRE
Five frameworks from a century of education research that map directly to eval design for AI agents, and why building the eval system before the product changes everything.
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What handcrafted servers taught us about handcrafted code
Whether AI-generated code should be treated as disposable, what the shift to immutable infrastructure taught us, and how those lessons apply to the way teams write and maintain code today.
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114 miles to the final cut
How Walter Murch edited a major motion picture on a $999 tool nobody believed in, and what that approach offers anyone trying to lead through a wave of technological disruption.
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Re-engineering the software development playbook
How AI is shifting bottlenecks upstream as implementation costs near zero, and what that means for planning, communication, and where engineering expertise now sits.
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The state of the software engineering industry
A candid view on where software and AI engineering are heading, what the signals actually suggest, and what it means for teams and careers.
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Refactoring LIVE – In conversation with Rands
Luca Rossi sits down with Michael Lopp, aka Rands, to explore engineering leadership in the age of AI.
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Game time: A playbook to (unsuccessfully) 10x in a week and (successfully) 10x in a year
A candid scaling story about why rushed 10x efforts fail, and how disciplined metrics, culture, and architecture win over time.
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Rethinking how distributed teams deliver complex tech
Practical patterns for delivering complex work across distributed teams while improving inclusion, decision quality, and team autonomy.
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The shadow culture: Why engineering principles fail under load
Why engineering principles collapse under pressure, and how redesigning systems makes the right behavior the easy default.
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In partnership with incident.ioAccelerating sustainably with AI
Scaling AI coding across teams requires culture shifts, standards, documentation, and thoughtful sustainable engineering practices.