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.
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.
The sequel to “It Moved the Constraint.” Building is nearly free now, but organizations still absorb change at a stubbornly human rate — and Goldratt told us forty years ago what to do about a bottleneck you can’t code past.
Two cool, cloudy nights at Leech Lake with Jayson, Echo, and Dee OhGee — a spotless Corps of Engineers campground, some off-road forest trails up toward Lake Winnie, a balky stove, and a menu that rearranged itself on the fly.
Agile was built to ration scarce engineering. AI made building cheap, so the bottleneck moved downstream — to whether anyone can actually absorb what we ship. The gates we built to protect capacity are now just drag.
Three nights at Lake Winni Dam with the R1T and Echo — one of the best Corps of Engineers campgrounds I’ve visited, plus gear notes and a menu built around one pound of ribeye.
User stories assume humans will fill in the gaps. Autonomous agents don’t. Here’s how to turn tickets into machine-ready contracts — and why the backlog is becoming the real interface between intent and execution.
Alpine Blue is building Lamplit — an acrostic puzzle game for iOS rooted in the Victorian tradition of wordplay. We’re in early beta, and here’s what we’ve been making.
AI makes it fast to ship—but just as fast to harden bad design. Here’s a practical approach I use to keep speed without compounding debt.
Discover a comprehensive framework for measuring Scrum Team success that goes beyond traditional outcomes to include behaviors, leadership capacity, and team sustainability
Learn how to save time and write better commit messages using AI tools in VS Code
How using named chats and channels can transform your digital communication and boost team productivity
Exploring my experience with Cursor, an AI-powered code editor that’s changing how we write code
5 Filters to Rule Them All.
I have accepted this fun challenge and this is my entry.
Words like “currently” and “now” can sometimes create more confusion than clarity, so let’s break it down!
Hello world! <– The obligatory first thing for any programmer.
