Explores the concept of Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) and argues that LLM-powered agents should not serve as DRIs due to lack of accountability.
Explores the tension between AI enthusiasts racing to adopt AI and skeptics warning about reliability and knowledge loss.
Analysis of the tension between AI enthusiasts and skeptics in software teams, highlighting the race for innovation versus maintaining reliability.
An essay arguing that some bureaucracy, wisely chosen, is better than none, using historical and organizational perspectives.
Explores how dysfunctional communication and veto power in tech standards committees can lead to stagnation and failure to innovate, a twist on Conway's Law.
Explores how Conway's Law influences software architecture, comparing solo development to collaborative teamwork and its impact on code structure.
Argues that Tech Leads, who code and manage small teams, are more effective than detached Engineering Managers in software organizations.
Argues that leadership impact should be measured by results per team member, not by the size of the organization managed.
