I let a tool I liked sit dead for a year rather than build the features I wanted. An MCP server meant I never had to, and your customers can do the same to your product.

du -sh for the quick answer, ncdu for the cleanup, df for the disk itself: every command for checking directory size in Linux, plus why du and df never agree.

One :%s command replaces every match in a file before a find dialog would even open. The Vim substitute patterns worth the muscle memory: flags, ranges, capture groups, and multi-file edits.

Your existing team is buried in the complexity of your existing product. AI rewards the team with a blank slate. Most companies don't have one.

The stories about offshore "not working" are rarely about skill. They are about an invisible communication gap, and it starts the moment someone says yes.

Almost nobody trains you to be an engineering manager. You were good at writing code, so you got handed more people and more meetings, and one day the job…

At VinSolutions, I was famous for one thing that had nothing to do with writing code. Every single time we shipped a release, I posted about it. On social…

Employee retention is a silent killer for dev teams and AI is making it worse. Teams track velocity, headcount, and tooling spend down to the decimal, and…

The job we spent twenty years hiring for is the one AI is best at. For most of my career, the path was to go narrow. You became the React person, or the…

I have hired somewhere north of a thousand software engineers. At VinSolutions, at Stackify, and now at Full Scale, where we build dedicated development…

A few weeks ago I wrote about my friend who discovered Claude Code and disappeared for two months. He sent me screenshots of five Claude Code sessions…

A founder told me a few weeks ago that his remote team wasn’t working out. Good developers on paper, he said, but the work kept missing the mark, and he…

A year ago I was the guy rolling his eyes at the AI demos. I tried to use it back then to score sales leads, and I couldn’t get it to reliably do…

I slept with my laptop last night. Open, on the bed, with a Claude session still running. For the last week and a half I’ve carried it everywhere. It…

In January, Andrej Karpathy (the guy who helped start OpenAI and ran AI at Tesla) wrote a short post on X about how his programming workflow had changed.

Every other LinkedIn post these days is some flavor of “I built a SaaS over the weekend with Claude Code and I don’t need engineers anymore.”

Here’s a test for any engineering leader reading this: Delete your backlog. I’m serious. Delete the whole thing.

There is a new bet running through every engineering org I talk to in 2026. “AI can write all the code.” How much can you trust AI is the real question.…

Software developers are going to replace software engineers. That isn’t a typo. It’s what AI is actually doing to our industry, and most people don’t see…

Every CTO I talk to has a version of the same conversation happening on their team right now. An engineer is scared. They’ve seen what Claude Code can do.…