The Hard Truth About AI and Engineering
LLMs are great at patterns, terrible at cause and effect. If you're leading teams and betting otherwise, you're driving blind.
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Engineering
This is the core of what I do - building systems that actually hold up under pressure. You'll find stories here about architecting for scale, designing systems that are operable, maintainable, and fast, and navigating the trade-offs between speed and stability. It's the kind of work that happens after the MVP: where infrastructure, latency, observability, and team velocity start to matter.
Every Shortcut Is a Loan
Shortcuts feel efficient, until they start collecting interest. From tech debt to hiring gaps, this is a walkthrough of the invisible loans startups take every day - and what founders often underestimate in the rush to move fast.
Solving the Wrong Puzzle
Some developers aren't building for users. They're chasing elegance and the urge to solve problems just because they're hard, not because they matter. It's a trap that kills velocity and distracts even the smartest engineers.
10 Years of Engineering: The Lessons Nobody Tells You Early
Building software is not about perfect code, fancy patterns, or being the smartest person in the room. It’s judgment, simplicity, communication, and the discipline to ship even when everything feels messy. This is what I wish someone had told me at year zero.
Why "Monolith" Became a Bad Word
Everyone fell in love with microservices, but complexity came free. Modular monoliths might just be the smarter path for most teams today. Even Amazon and Shopify circled back. Here's why that matters if you're building something new.
Why I Had to Ask a Junior Dev to Stop Using AI
AI makes you faster - unless it makes you lazy. Here’s the real story of asking a junior dev to pause ChatGPT, and what it taught me about product judgment.
The Bug Was the System
We fixed the tools. We cleaned up the code. But something still felt off. Everyone was doing their job, but velocity kept slipping. I couldn’t shake the feeling that what we were fixing wasn’t the thing that was broken.
Flutter Is Taking Over
I started out writing native code and believed in it fully. But Flutter has evolved into something rare - a truly cross-platform system that doesn't feel like a compromise. In 2025, it's earning its spot as a real default.
Why We Made Copilot Mandatory (and Would Do It Again)
Everyone said "just try it," so we did. Then we made it non-optional. Not because we love AI, but because we hate wasting smart people’s time on dumb stuff.
Best Fruit is Forbidden
The idea of rewriting everything from scratch is tempting clean code, faster builds, fresh tech. But clean slates come with real costs. Here's a more honest take on why backend rewrites feel right, but often aren't.