Principal Engineer · 16+ years
Architecture, evaluations, observability, failure handling, cost and latency: the parts a demo never has to answer for.
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An open-source terminal for running coding agents. See what each one changed, read the diff, then stage and commit without leaving it. No account, no telemetry.
See Marlin →One TypeScript problem, written from memory against hidden tests, on a schedule that brings it back just before you would have forgotten it. No account needed to try one.
Your AI plan looks like your last digital programme: a tool, a rollout, a go-live date. What carries over, what breaks, and what to run instead.
Your AI pilot made one step faster, but the results did not move. The cause is usually the slowest step, and what you did with the time.
Vendors call everything an agent. Here is what each step from chatbot to agent adds, and how much supervision each one needs from you.
AI can do brilliant work and still fail a simple task. Leaders need to separate what it can do from whether they can depend on it.
I use AI every day, I enjoy it, and I am not going back. What it quietly took is the part of me that produces code from an empty file: the best practices I used to apply without thinking, and the problem solving underneath them. Why the existing practice sites did not fit, and what I built instead.
Your agent gave a bad answer and you cannot say why. Tracing tells you what happened on one request. Evals tell you whether quality moved across many. They answer different questions, and if you only build one this quarter, build the one that makes the other actionable.
What other engineers have been reading in the last seven days.
A short, simple review of Leopold Aschenbrenner essay. He says AI will reach human-level smarts around 2027. Here is what he gets right, what he gets wrong, and what it means for you.
Worked solutions to every SQLZoo SELECT from WORLD exercise, from basic filtering to population and GDP-per-capita queries, each explained step by step.
Lefthook replaces Husky and lint-staged with a single Go binary, parallel hook execution, and built-in file filtering. Here is why I switched and kept going.
The kernel dropped the experimental label, Cloudflare rewrote its proxy, and your JavaScript build is already Rust underneath. That is the case for learning it. The case against is that the most important TypeScript tool of the decade picked Go. Here is how I read the trade-off, and where I would still not leave TypeScript.
Most AI assistants live behind someone else's API. You send a message, it hits a server you don't control, and a response comes back through a pipeline yo...
This is the book I wish existed five years ago.
The deep dives I'd point a senior engineer at first, grouped by topic.
Worked SQLZoo solutions, joins, aggregates, GROUP BY vs HAVING, and subqueries — the queries interviewers actually ask.
9 deep dives · Start reading →
Indexes, query optimisation, sharding, replication and normalization — how to make a database fast and keep it fast.
8 deep dives · Start reading →
Why oxlint replaced ESLint, pnpm vs npm, Lefthook vs Husky, and the Rust/Go shift in the frontend toolchain.
6 deep dives · Start reading →
Arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, tries, graphs, heaps and hash tables — implemented and explained in TypeScript.
12 deep dives · Start reading →
Insertion, selection, merge and quick sort, plus binary and substring search — the classic algorithms, step by step.
6 deep dives · Start reading →
What a design system really is (per Atlassian), how Dropbox and Netflix build theirs, and how to roll out an internal UI component library.
6 deep dives · Start reading →
Horizontal vs vertical scaling, capacity estimation, resilience patterns and the architecture principles behind systems that grow.
6 deep dives · Start reading →
Head-to-head breakdowns — oxlint vs ESLint, REST vs GraphQL, SQL vs NoSQL, Svelte/Preact vs React — with the trade-offs that decide it.
12 deep dives · Start reading →
