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10 min readEvery study of AI and developer productivity measures how long a task took. That number stops meaning anything the moment you run five sessions across four repos. I went looking for research on people who work this way and found one note, seven people, and an author begging me not to build on it.
5 min readI gave my best engineer the promotion's workload without the promotion, then cheered from the sideline while the organization ate him. The project shipped. The engineer didn't. The lesson has a name: cover, not cheerleading.
6 min readWrite the 100-day plan anyway. The three classic new-EM faceplants, why month one is for mapping the local balagan instead of fixing it, and the quiet Flink timezone bug that erased events during a pre-Black-Friday code freeze.
2 min readDay one in a new company is a reset button. The logistics, the watching, and the classic rookie faceplants.
7 min read"Trust your gut" is the best advice you can give a senior and the worst you can give a junior. A gut is compressed experience with a domain and an expiry date, and the confidence never tells you which one you're holding.
5 min readEngineers swear we are not creative, then rewrite the same Flink job five ways before lunch. The two modes of technical creativity nobody teaches new leads, and the four words I keep repeating to mine: don't chase the yelling.