4 articles tagged Engineering
AI answers first, judgment later
AI assistants give juniors fast, confident answers without your system's context. Here is how to move mentoring from giving answers to reviewing judgment.
14 min read · 29 October 2026
Promotions in the AI era: the mechanism
Why code volume stopped being a promotion signal, and how decision artifacts — ADRs, PR descriptions, instrumented tradeoffs — restore legible evidence of judgment.
17 min read · 8 October 2026
AI tools won’t help if everyone writes the same code
AI coding assistants amplify existing team imbalances. Here is how to measure per-author incident rates and rebalance review load without policing.
14 min read · 29 July 2026
Show real work, not AI clones
A hiring-focused guide to portfolio projects that demonstrate retry logic, circuit breakers, latency percentiles and honest post-mortems for unreliable networks.
18 min read · 29 June 2026