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When teams sit down to incorporate AI into their products and workflows, the starting question is too often: “What can AI do here?”

When I wrote a few months ago that code review is not about catching bugs, the most common pushback I got was a variation of the same thing: “If you’re only getting to that decision at the code review stage, you skipped a step.

My former Parse colleague Charity Majors – now CTO of Honeycomb and one of the strongest voices in the observability space – recently posted something that caught my attention.

I’m about to start a new role leading a team I’ve never worked with.

The conventional wisdom about autonomy is simple: remove constraints.

I spent my baby bonding leave this summer with my newest kid — which was the point.

How every abstraction in software creates walls, and why AI might finally demolish them The learning curve for building software is a lie.

After nearly two decades building developer platforms, I’ve learned that the moment you truly succeed is when developers find magic in places you didn’t mean to put it.

A former report reached out recently.

Every successful platform has them.

My last post here was about building a data binding framework for Android.