blog
Reviewing AI-Assisted Code Changes - When AI changes a lot of code quickly, review is no longer about reading lines. It’s about making sure you still understand what will happen in production.
Latest
blog
Pressure moving upstream - The bottleneck isn't typing. It's clarity. AI makes building fast. AI doesn't remove responsibility, it exposes it.
blog
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel, Question the Price Tag Instead - More people are pausing and asking a simple but powerful question: “Should I really be paying this much for that?”
blog
When effort and systems stop being the same thing - At small scale, effort and systems look identical. The moment they stop looking identical is the moment you should have built the system one project ago.
launch
3.3.3 - Are You Comfortable Putting Your Name on This Build? - Set the ownership threshold: say what is still imperfect, what would happen if it failed and why shipping is still acceptable under those conditions.
launch
3.3.2 - Name the Risks Yourself Before Users Find Them in Production - Name the launch risk: say what might break, what would trigger it and what response reduces the damage.
launch
3.3.1 - What "Ready" Actually Means Once Real Users Are Looking - Define the readiness rule: say what has to be true, how it will be checked and who owns any remaining risk.
launch
3.2.3 - Iteration Should Increase Value, Not Just Add Surface Area - Check the iteration value test: say what changed, what user outcome it is meant to improve and what signal will show that it did.
launch
3.2.2 - Explain Your Decisions Before Asking for Review - Explain the review context: say what was decided, what trade-off it created and what question you want reviewers to answer.
launch
3.2.1 - The Difference Between Learning and Being Stuck - Name the learning signal: say what question is being answered, what signal will answer it and what decision comes next.
launch
3.1.3 - Decide in Advance What Would Change Your Mind - Set the decision threshold: say what evidence will trigger change, where it will come from and what action follows.
launch
3.1.2 - Ask for Signals, Not Opinions, From the People You Trust - Choose the decision signal: point to the behavior or result you need to see and explain what decision it will change.