Where the Automation Has to Stop
I keep seeing people running multiple agents, perfect setups with multiple skills, operating a fleet of assignments. First of all, this looks like science fiction. Besides that,...
Engineering, Leadership, and Life
I write about software engineering, leadership, and the judgment built through messy systems, team decisions, mistakes, and curiosity beyond work.
The Engineer in the Half-Space
You are reading interview loop feedback. You are going through the notes and it looks like neither a nogo nor a go. You are divided in your head too. Mitch does not seem to scor...
Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice
A few weeks ago we were discussing a Java component that starts a Spark cluster. Its job is mostly coordination. It starts the machinery, passes configuration around, waits for...
Too Liked to Be Useful
I often get surprised when I hear someone say they like a certain manager. I usually have very different reservations about them in my head. The gap between what I think and wha...
Vibe Coder vs Software Engineer
More than a decade ago, I wrote about . At the time, I didn’t realize how deeply people had tied their professional identity to Java. My goal was to distinguish between someone...