More Glue, Less Gray Matter
Or: the machines don't get tired. That's the problem.
Press Play on Tape
Once upon a time a kid watched Star
Engineering Culture
Go Ahead, Punk. Make My Replacement.
Or: An ode to self-awareness, from one quality bottleneck to another.
You leave your kid at daycare every morning. A stranger with a certificate keeps
We Can Build Anything. Anything the System Allows.
Or: the SDLC doesn't fail at the stages. It fails at the handoffs.
The stories below are composites. Names, products, and companies have
I'm Not Obsolete. I'm Legacy.
Or: What Twenty Years of Experience Is Actually Worth When the Machine Learned It in Twenty Seconds
Last month, a junior engineer shipped a feature
I Hate Lazy People. I Hired a Lazy LLM.
Smells of code, facts, numbers, and dreams.
It was a routine dependency update.
You know the kind. Lock file refresh, a few minor versions bumping,