Recent Posts
The Rules Moved Into Code. Did the Humans Come Along?
Nate B Jones says your roadmap is why you’re losing to AI-native teams, and his fix is to move the org’s implicit rules into working code — fifteen commandments’ worth. A review of the video: what lands, what rhymes with things I’ve been arguing here, and the one instruction I’d push back on.
The Patterns Didn’t Go Away. You Stopped Asking for Them.
Two posts crossed my feed the same week — one a 248,000-PR study, one a reflection on how we used to build — and they told the same story from opposite ends: AI didn’t lower the bar on code quality. We stopped holding it there. The discipline still works. You just have to ask for it.
Nobody Changed the Code. It Still Broke.
A production Lambda started crashing on startup with no code change behind it. The cause was a three-way collision between a new AWS runtime, an old bundled library, and a routine dependency upgrade — and the fix is a one-line lesson in scoping what you scan.
