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Latest — 24 Nov 2025

When Backend and Frontend Live in Different Realities Inside the Same Team

Anyone who has worked in a development or engineering team knows this dynamic: we’re building the same product and sprinting toward the same goals, yet somehow living in completely different realities depending on whether we sit on the backend or the frontend. Backend Reality: Progress You Can’t See,

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The Quiet Work Was What Kept the Product Alive

— A reflection from 19 years in engineering and why we need to rethink how we evaluate our teams During my time as a CTO at a startup, I worked with two engineers who taught me a lesson I didn’t fully understand until they were gone. Both were skilled and

When AI Speeds Us Up, But Slows Down How Teams Actually Learn

After almost two decades of building and managing software teams, I’ve never seen development move as fast as it does now. A bug pops up? Ask AI. Need a quick draft of a feature spec? Ask AI. Trying a new architecture? Ask AI first, docs later. It’s convenient.

When Developers Move Faster Than the Team Can See

A perspective from a developer and engineering leader with 19 years of experience In nearly two decades of building software and leading engineering teams, I’ve seen technology reshape how we work many times. But nothing compares to what happened recently — a moment that showed just how far individual execution

AI Made Us Faster — But It Also Created a New Problem: The AI Silo

Why the age of AI requires even stronger human collaboration As AI tools rapidly accelerate the pace of work, it feels like every role — from product to design to engineering — can now execute faster than ever before. With a single prompt, prototypes can appear, features can be implemented, logic can

AI Isn’t Replacing Developers — It’s Compressing Development Time

A perspective from a developer and engineering manager with 19 years of experience After nearly two decades of building and managing software teams, I’ve seen several waves of technology trends come and go. But few have generated as much debate as the recent rise of AI-assisted coding tools. There’

Why Bugs Should Never Be a Performance Metric — And Why You’re Doing Better Than You Think

There’s this long-running myth in tech that refuses to die: “The number of bugs you create reflects your skill as a developer.” If you’ve been in the industry for more than five minutes, you already know how ridiculous that is. Sure—sometimes bugs come from lack of experience

Is our development team's Scrum working properly?

Many development teams hold Scrum meetings every morning. But why do many developers consider Scrum one of the 'most hated tasks'? Scrum is a term originally derived from rugby. You may have seen the scene where players from both teams put their heads together and push each other

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