Notes on how the work is changing — and on what hasn't.
AI has not made thinking less valuable. It has made thinking the job.
One of the most profound shifts I have noticed in the age of artificial intelligence is that value is no longer defined by execution alone. Instead, it is increasingly defined by how we think and the decisions we make.
A greedy matcher saved 47 in cost and left a client with nobody. Every decision it made was the cheapest one available.
When I started building benchFlow, a system that decides which engineer goes to which client request, I did the obvious thing first.
Git never stopped us committing a .env file. We avoid it for a good reason — it is worth checking we still remember what that reason is.
What a developer said about Git and .env files caught my attention — especially the idea that we sometimes stick to certain development practices not because they are the best, but simply because we are used to them.