“All the Lego Pieces Are Around”: How I Approach Feature Estimates
How I use existing capabilities to reason about feature timelines, separating reuse from adaptation, new work, and the unknowns that need investigation.
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How I Use AI to Make Software Easier to Own
How I use AI to investigate, implement, challenge assumptions, and remove unnecessary complexity while retaining responsibility for engineering decisions.
Configuration Beats Code Only When Variation Is Bounded
A decision framework for moving business rules into governed configuration without creating an untyped programming language that nobody can operate safely.
Adapter Boundaries That Make Change Cheaper
How adapter boundaries make vendor changes easier while preserving payment outcomes, recovery decisions, and differences the business needs to know.
One Model, Many Conversations: LLM Serving, Memory, and Reasoning
How serving engines share one model across users, isolate KV caches, batch token generation, preserve context, and spend more inference compute on reasoning.