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What AI Predictions Reveal About Engineering Values
Sometimes a prediction about the future is a confession about what someone never valued in the present.
Notebook / Observations
Field Notes
Concise observations from the work: smaller than essays, but complete enough to be worth keeping. An argument develops; a field note catches something before it gets away.
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033
When the Metric Becomes Reality
What happens when an organization stops treating a metric as an approximation and starts treating it as reality.
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RCA Still Matters Despite AI Assistance
An incident review demonstrates that engineers understand what happened.
025
Software Was Never Hard Because Humans Were Too Dim
AI did not abolish coupling, code rot, hidden assumptions, or the accumulated history of software.
024
Does It Actually Have to Work That Way?
Professional judgment gets sharper when informed product and engineering partners challenge constraints together.
018
An Interface Can Give Someone a Superpower
A good interface turns technical possibility into capability a person can actually use.
014
Self-Awareness Over Self-Recrimination
Small systems for getting reoriented when cognitive overload or task initiation brings work to a halt.
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Engineers Are Not Reference Manuals
The difference between asking an engineer for information and asking them to bless a decision you have already made.