Engineering Leadership
From novelty to plumbing
The interesting question is no longer whether engineers use AI tools, but where they belong in the workflow and where they quietly make things worse.
Articles
Architecture
Your AI doesn't need another API, it needs a toolbox
Why Model Context Protocol matters less because of the protocol itself and more because it solves a problem every engineering organisation eventually encounters.
Engineering Leadership
What AI adoption actually looks like inside a 300+ engineer organisation
The hardest part of AI adoption isn't choosing tools. It's changing how engineers, leaders and organisations work around them.
Payments
Moving money is hard
Most software engineers think a payment is a database transaction. The payments industry has spent decades proving otherwise.
Security
Secrets are everywhere
Most security incidents don't begin with sophisticated attackers. They begin with credentials sitting somewhere they shouldn't.
Engineering Leadership
Why most technical debt is really organisational debt
Code rarely becomes hard to maintain because engineers wanted it that way. More often the architecture is just a faithful record of the incentives, constraints and decisions of the organisation around it.
Engineering Leadership
Why most engineering metrics fail
The problem isn't that engineering metrics are useless. The problem is that we often ask them to answer questions they were never designed to answer.
Platform Engineering
Building a desktop platform is like building an operating system
Most engineers think desktop platforms are about windows and toolbars. The hard parts are identity, communication, deployment, versioning and convincing hundreds of applications to coexist without setting fire to each other.
Platform Engineering
Designing for sub-100ms: latency budgets in trading UIs
When a price moves, the screen has one job: show it before the trader notices the delay. A practical look at spending a latency budget across transport, processing, rendering and paint.
