Field notes
What I've learned running engineering in regulated software.
Short pieces on the recurring problems: velocity that stalls at scale, audits nobody scheduled, and the people who hold it all together. Written when I have something to say, not on a calendar.
Engineering culture · 14 September 2026
How to find meaning at work in the AI era. Or not
Losing the meaning of your work is the most common symptom of the grief I wrote about last time. Here's where it comes from, and what to do when there isn't any.
Read the note →Engineering culture · 25 July 2026
How software engineers really feel about AI taking their jobs
Six months of talking to engineers about AI, and the emotion underneath it that rarely makes the coverage.
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Chewing on one of these for your own team? That's usually where a conversation starts.