The Product Development Team Is No Longer the Smallest Unit of Delivery

AI lets one engineer carry work that might once have required a cross-functional product development team. Delivery units can shrink, management spans can widen, and the community can still own the product.

Your Manager Has Six Reports Because Management Stopped Thinking in 1933

AI has reduced the cost of coordination across software engineering. Our management structures should probably notice.

The Answer Without the Question

A case study in how AI can encourage confidence when the limits of the analysis are not made clear.

What It Takes for a Web App to Feel Premium

Building a premium experience on the web is harder than it looks, but it scales everywhere once you get it right. This is what that discipline actually involves.

The Five Second Contract

Queueing looks harmless at first. A slow call holds a few threads, then a few more, and if left unchecked it can tip the whole system over.

The Other Production

Players only see production. Engineers live in the systems behind it. When those systems fail, the product fails later. The two worlds are closer than they look.

Let the Browser Do the Heavy Lifting

Most slowdowns in an SPA come from one place. Too much work ends up hanging off a single thin thread inside the browser, and the moment it strains, the whole product feels it.

Making a Big Repo Feel Small

Sparse checkout as the everyday way to work in a monorepo.

Keys to the Kingdom

Finding the Keys That Matter

What Would It Take to Go Live Next Week?

Sometimes the fastest way to find out what’s broken is to try to ship it.

The Myth of Multiplying Yourself

Sometimes the things that once made sense deserve another look.

A general guide to branching in a multi-product monorepo

How many teams ship one product across surfaces without collisions.