Leadership
Notes on leading engineers
Decisions, trade-offs and team questions that come with leading engineers: testing strategy, delivery flow, technical direction, and bringing AI into how a team works.
2026
- Tech debt snowballs, then it avalanchesLeadership5 min read
Technical debt rarely fails slowly. It grows quietly for months, then one day nothing can move until it's fixed. How to spot the snowball, why you don't get to choose the avalanche day, and what a lead can do before it arrives.
- Last write wins, and the customer losesArchitecture3 min read
A multi-tab bug that looked like a one-off defect turned out to be a design assumption the product had outgrown. Why I argued for fixing the model, not just the bug, and how to raise that kind of risk.
- Release risk usually isn't in the codeDelivery3 min read
Most release risk I've dealt with wasn't a software defect. It was environment differences, unclear ownership of manual steps, late changes and rollback plans nobody had tried. What I learned preparing a high-risk platform migration.