Tag: Engineering Practices
All the articles with the tag "Engineering Practices".
Lazy Is a Strategy (When You Have the Right Tools)
Published: at 09:03 PMThe most productive people I know are also the laziest — in the right way. They automate mercilessly, delegate to machines, and refuse work that doesn't need doing. AI makes this approach accessible to everyone. Here's how to be strategically lazy.
Sprint Planning Doesn't Need Everyone in the Room
Published: at 08:09 PMSprint planning sessions that pull every team member into a room for two hours are a drag on productivity. Not everyone needs to be there — here's how alignment should actually work across teams, and why selective participation produces better plans.
Side Projects Are a Weekend Thing Now (and That's Okay)
Published: at 08:53 PMSide projects used to be an all-week affair — late nights, lunch breaks, any spare moment. But as work demands grew, I learned to protect my weekends for the code that matters most. Here's why side projects became a weekend ritual and how that shift made me more productive at both.
The Prompt Is the New Pull Request
Published: at 08:36 PMWe used to measure engineering output in pull requests. That metric is about to break in ways that matter. The real artifact of work is shifting upstream — to the prompt, the spec, the intent. Here's what that means for how we work, review, and hire.
Writing Code Is Not the Job
Published: at 09:31 PMNobody pays you to type. They pay you to solve problems. The sooner you separate the craft of thinking from the act of typing, the more valuable you become — and AI is making that distinction impossible to ignore.