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Essays on the parts of software consulting that don't make it into case studies. Opinionated, occasionally wrong, never AI-generated.
- MAR 28, 2026Engineering
The real cost of a rewrite is not the rewrite
Everyone knows rewrites take longer than planned. What kills them is the thing nobody budgets for: the six months of dual-maintenance while the old system keeps paying the bills.
7 min → - FEB 14, 2026Craft
You will ship your org chart. Plan accordingly.
Conway’s Law is not a warning, it’s a design tool. The shape of the team that builds a system is the shape of the system. Here’s how we use that on purpose.
5 min → - JAN 22, 2026AI
LLM evals that actually predict production behavior
Most eval harnesses tell you the model is good. Production tells you something different, usually at 2am. Here’s the eval setup we deploy on every AI engagement.
9 min → - DEC 03, 2025Engineering
How two engineers replaced a 40-person platform team
Not by being smarter. By being ruthless about scope, aggressive about leverage, and unapologetic about deleting code. A case study in subtraction.
6 min →
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