Latest / May 26, 2026
6 posts from engineering leaders published May 26, 2026, by Cate Huston, Gunnar Morling, Avery Pennarun and 2 more.
I’m disciplined about scope. Ship the smallest thing that moves you forward. The feature you don’t build is the feature you don’t maintain. When I was running a team, holding the why was the job. Keeping us focused on the things that actually mattered, and away from the things…
I had the pleasure to do a few podcasts and interviews, e.g. talking about Debezium, change data capture, stream processing, my career, and software engineering in general. Interview with InfoQ: Chasing Efficient Java Development: From 1BRC to Developing Hardwood AI Natively…
AI isn’t killing engineering. It's making it less meditative. There’s a lot of talk about AI killing engineering jobs. Some jobs will change, and some will disappear. But we’ve been automating engineering work for decades, and somehow we keep finding more engineering to do. At…
AI makes it easy to focus inwards and feel impressed with all the churn and motion and output you're producing. But your users don't care.
AI makes it easy to focus inwards and feel impressed with all the churn and motion and output you're producing. But your users don't care.
In my last post I used the word “clanker 1 ” as an alternative to “agent” quite consistently and probably excessively. That choice ended up attracting a lot more attention than I expected in the Hacker News comment section of that post and a number of folks had a very strong…