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Tag: Productivity
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“Tokenmaxxing” Is Lines-of-Code Thinking for the Agentic Era
Silicon Valley has a new competitive sport, and it’s exactly the mistake you think it is. The New York Times reported last week that engineers at Meta, OpenAI,…
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Minutes Added To Workforce
Every company I’ve talked to in the last two quarters is asking the same question about AI: what’s the ROI? The instinct is to measure AI value in cost…
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Block Just Cut 3,500 Jobs. You’re Reading It Wrong.
Jack Dorsey announced this week that Block is cutting roughly 3,500 people — about 40% of its workforce. The stock has been sliding for years. The headlines are…
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Can AI Solve the Four Burner Problem?
In my last post, Awe in an AI World, I wrote about the reclaimed time that AI is creating and the question that keeps me up at night in…
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Putting AI to Work in Your Engineering Workflow Today
A few years ago, I wrote about the creeping danger of debt. Debt being the slow accumulation of manual processes, fragile deployments, and tribal knowledge that eventually drowns…
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The Dawn of Observability 1.0
As we prepare to embrace the next era software systems, it’s essential to look back and understand the beginnings of observability in software systems. Observability laid the groundwork…
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Efficiency matters
Doing something faster doesn’t always mean you need to add more capacity. In fact, I suggest taking a look at what you are doing and how you are…
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Automate or die (slowly)
The long-term overhead of not automating your operational problems will choke the growth of your product features. Technical debt is well understood to slow down software product development,…
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Time Minimalism
We are constantly being bombarded with notifications, alerts, feeds, and messages. I have 43 apps installed on my phone. Each one of them has the ability to send…
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Arbitrary Constraints Power Creative Problem Solving
Google Ventures does a lot of research on sprints. What they don’t say directly is that a sprint is a tightly constrained by time. In five days you…