Archives for 2026

July 17, 2026

The Difference Between Staff Engineer Impact And Senior Engineer Output

July 15, 2026

Why Senior Engineers Stall Before Staff Engineer

July 13, 2026

How To Write Agent Prompts That Produce Reviewable Pull Requests

July 10, 2026

How To Decide When A Build Tool Wrapper Has Become A Platform

July 08, 2026

What Actually Changes When You Move From Senior Engineer To Staff Engineer

July 06, 2026

How To Review CI Failures With AI Without Turning Off Your Judgment

July 03, 2026

How To Keep AI Coding Agent Changes Small Enough To Review

July 01, 2026

How To Make Build Failures Reproducible Before They Become CI Mysteries

June 29, 2026

How To Design CI Output That Humans Can Actually Debug

June 26, 2026

When To Trust AI Coding Agent Refactors

June 24, 2026

How To Debug Bazel Remote Cache Misses Without Guessing

June 22, 2026

Making Local CI Commands Boring Enough for Humans and AI Agents

June 19, 2026

Reviewing AI-Written Tests Without Fooling Yourself

June 17, 2026

When Remote Build Caching Is Worth It

June 15, 2026

Designing Guardrails for AI-Generated Pull Requests

June 12, 2026

Bazel vs. Make vs. Just: Choosing Build Tools for Real Engineering Teams

June 10, 2026

How to Use AI Coding Agents Without Losing Engineering Judgment

June 08, 2026

Migrating from WORKSPACE to Bzlmod Without Making Your Build Weird

June 05, 2026

Bazel 9.1.0: What Changed and How to Think About the Upgrade

May 25, 2026

The Staff Engineer's Path Review

April 29, 2026

A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition Review

March 30, 2026

Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition Review