Engineering Perspectives
Thoughts on software development, AI tooling, engineering culture, and the craft of building things that actually work.
The $10,000 Microwave: Why Your "Automated Agency" is a House of Cards
A grotesque Rube Goldberg machine of disconnected SaaS tools, held together by subscriptions and blind hope. Here's what a real engineer would build instead.
Mastering the Machine: A Dev's Guide to GitHub Copilot Agents and Custom Skills
A practical guide to building custom GitHub Copilot agents, extensions, and skill files that accelerate your development workflow.
The Microwave "Chefs" of the AI Revolution
If you've spent more than five minutes on social media lately, you've seen them. The "AI Alchemists," the "Prompt Wizards," and the "Automation Gurus." They'...
From "Vibing" to Velocity: Why AI is an Exoskeleton for Senior Engineers
In my last post, I poked some well-deserved fun at the "vibecoding" trend—the dangerous illusion that anyone with a prompt can build a production-ready syste...
When Developers are No Longer Needed (And Other Hilarious Lies)
Oh, the glorious future. A world where everyone can be an app developer! Where complex software systems are built not by seasoned engineers with years of tra...
Learning to Code on TikTok: The Illusion of Effortless Programming in the AI Era
After over 2 decades of staring at monitors—dating back to when Internet Explorer was "king," PHP was considered cutting-edge, and Stack Overflow hadn't yet ...
Why Core Web Vitals Still Matter in 2025
Google's page experience signals aren't going away. Here's how to engineer sites that score 100 across all Core Web Vitals — and why it's worth the effort.