We’ve all met this person. They don’t just write code; they craft “ecosystems.” You ask for a simple CRUD form to track office snacks, and suddenly you’re sitti...
Background In an earlier post I discussed architectural drift and how AI, while accelerating delivery, can quietly push systems away from their original intent...
Introduction A new year has arrived. Welcome to 2026, where every system is “simple at first” and every decision is “temporary.” January - No legacy code - No...
Mean Time to Understanding 🤔: The Irreducible Human Element in the Age of Infinite Code 🤖 Author: GrahamTheDev Date: Dec 21 Tags: ai, webdev, programming Gra...
In the past few months Alongside our normal feature work, I’ve: - Cut our CI test times by 70 % - Reduced API requests by 30 % - Shipped features that had been...
The “Bus Factor” Fixer I designed the Code Documentation AI Prompt to solve the “Dave is in Bali” problem. Most people use AI for docs lazily: “Explain this co...
The Roadmap Tug‑of‑War The Conflict - Engineering – A legacy service is getting slower and harder to deploy. - Product – A new feature, backed by customer requ...
Software engineering invests enormous effort in measuring quality We measure test coverage, deployment frequency, pipeline stability, mean time to recovery, cy...
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It’s an hour until you’re free for the weekend, and you’re trying to knock out one last ticket before you escape into whatever action‑packed plans await you. Yo...
I once worked at a company which had an enormous amount of technical debt—millions of lines of code, no unit tests, based on frameworks that were well over a de...
