Optimizing AI code for review throughput
Use AI to organize large implementations into cohesive PR stacks and automate their upkeep so your team can review them efficiently.
Make it reviewable ↘
Notes on software
and engineering teams.
On building useful software, helping teams move, and deciding what matters when AI makes code cheap.
Bangers!
A few favorites on making software and teams work better.
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The AI trap
AI makes code cheaper to write, but we still need to decide whether the work matters.
Cheap code. Costly choices.
Code review is unblocking work
Prompt, useful code reviews unblock teammates, reduce downstream rework, and make team delivery a shared priority.
Unblock your teammates ↘
The value of UX in enterprise software
Features can get enterprise software bought. Good UX helps users get value, adopt it, and advocate for it.
UX earns advocates ↘
Recent articles
How I make sense of complex backends
How I understand complex backends by identifying system boundaries, making inputs and outputs explicit, and diagramming the data journey.
Code reviewers should push back
Reviewers should ask for smaller PRs or more context when a review is difficult, and authors should welcome that pushback.
Why backend code felt harder to understand
How distributed behavior, hidden execution paths, and knowledge of several systems made backend code harder to understand coming from frontend development.
Code review is unblocking work
Prompt, useful code reviews unblock teammates, reduce downstream rework, and make team delivery a shared priority.
Unblock your teammates ↘