Local Genius, Collective Drag: AI Tooling at Scale
I was discussing with some old friends recently about on call not specific incidents, more how to shap the burden across a large team. Someone mentioned in their company a few engi...
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AI Fluency: The New Non-Negotiable in Hiring
I have been talking to people in my network lately hiring managers, staff engineers, a few founders and a phrase keeps surfacing in different words but with the same spine: if some...
When the Minimum Span Arrived Faster Than I Expected
I was in a leadership forum this week when the conversation turned to span of control. Not in the abstract. In numbers. There is a new floor forming: a minimum expectation that man...
The 1:50 Ratio: Is the "Pod" Dead and the "Horde" Rising
The 1:50 Ratio: Is the "Pod" Dead and the "Horde" Rising? For decades, the "Rule of 7" (plus or minus two) has been the gold standard for engineering management. The logic was simp...
The Cohesion Crisis: A Prediction on Feature Sprawl
Ever since becoming a leader my North Star has been velocity. Each day I’ve tried to optimize sprints, CI/CD pipelines, and stand ups to solve one problem: how do we ship faster? N...
The New Unit of Planning: Headcount vs Tokens
As I work through another planning cycle, the ritual remains the same: the spreadsheet opens, the roadmap is prioritized, and we start the negotiation for more "heads." In my world...
