Life in Production

Nobody Asked for Flawless

The more senior you get, the higher your bar for 'good enough' quietly climbs, until it lands on flawless. But nobody asked for flawless. They asked for something that works.

Quick ReadEngineering Culture
July 8, 2026 · 6 min read

It Compiled. It Was Still Wrong.

AI can write the code, the tests, and the commit message. It can't tell you your font is exhausting the reader you forgot to picture. Knowing who the work is good for was always the job, and it still is.

Quick ReadAI
July 1, 2026 · 5 min read

Your AI Is a Fortune Teller

It doesn't tell you the truth. It tells you what you came to hear. The danger was never the AI. It was the access policy built around it, and the context you fed it.

Quick ReadAI
June 24, 2026 · 6 min read