Posts with #engineering

Wed, 23 September 2026

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The AI Tax: What Using LLMs Every Day Actually Costs Me

AI makes me faster. It also quietly takes things from me: ownership of the code, the joy of finishing something, and the skills I spent years building. This is the tax I pay, and how I'm learning to pay less of it.

4 min read

Thu, 14 May 2026

Bad Code Is Like Bad Food

Bad code feels great in the moment, just like bad food. It's quick, convenient, and does the job. The problem is that both quietly accumulate consequences that only become visible much later.

3 min read

Mon, 30 March 2026

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6 Years at JPMorgan Chase: The Things That Last

Code gets rewritten, projects get replaced, and systems evolve. What tends to last much longer are the lessons learned, the people we meet, and the engineering cultures we help shape.

5 min read

Mon, 15 September 2025

Frontend dashboards, code and graphs representing quality metrics

Stop Guessing. Start Measuring. The Frontend Quality Playbook.

How to build frontend systems that scale sustainably: measure what matters, prevent instead of patch, design for the long term, and base decisions on evidence - not assumptions.

3 min read

Mon, 25 August 2025

Interviews as Win/Win or No Deal

The world teaches us to see interviews as win/lose. But in reality, they're about alignment. If both sides don't win, it's no deal, and that's a good thing

3 min read

Mon, 23 June 2025

Managing Time as a Senior Engineer: What Actually Works for Me

Senior engineers are constantly pulled in different directions. Here's how I manage my time to stay focused on high-impact work, support my team, and avoid drowning in distractions.