You Trained Your Engineers To Stay Silent
So, does anyone have anything they want to share with the team? The room stays silent.
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Hard truths for engineering leaders.
Written by Tyler Desplenter, PhD — Systems Reliability Consultant.
The Hidden Cost of Feature Flags
Your team is about to roll out the new AI-powered search feature the board has been pushing for.
Read article →Don't Let AI Shutdowns Turn Your Business Into A Fable
You get a call from an engineer in the early morning because the production system is down.
Read article →Generating Code Was Never The Bottleneck
The pressure has never been higher to ship fast. The board is devouring every news article about how AI has 10X the productivity of everyone and their uncle.
Read article →You Can't Skip Quality. You Finance It.
That new enterprise prospect looks promising. You've been in talks for months, and now as the negotiations are happening, they bring up their outlook on cybersecurity.
Read article →Your Best Engineers Didn't Fail. Your Model Did.
It's 3 a.m., your wife wakes you up and mumbles something about your phone. It was ringing, but you were too exhausted to hear it.
Read article →Nobody Approved This Change, But It Changed Everything
My team was drowning in testing. Not for a lack of skill or effort, but for a lack of time.
Read article →I Built an AI Tool Under Pressure. Here Is What Broke.
I built an AI-powered cost assessment tool in a week under self-imposed pressure. The prompt I started with looked nothing like the one running today. Here is what broke and why.
Read article →Your Team Has Accepted Failure As Normal. That's Exactly The Problem.
The first time I saw the dashboard, I almost couldn't believe it. Thousands of errors in the logs every hour.
Read article →Are You Really Deploying AI Agents In Production?
I keep seeing many posts and having discussions with people about how their organizations are "deploying AI agents in production." My gut reaction was that this is just the next buzzword.
Read article →Same Prompt. Same AI Model. Result: 5 Different API Contracts.
I've worked with AI tools enough by now to understand that the same input doesn't produce the same output. The purpose of this experiment was to explore the differences in code generated in response to the same prompt.
Read article →I Assessed A Vibe-Coded System Before It Hit Production. Here Is What I Found.
Vibe coding, a term attributed to an X post made by AI-leader Andrej Karpathy, has gained a lot of popularity in the software realm over the last year.
Read article →Ready to stop the bleeding?