Before You Delete the Test, Break the Behavior
How deliberate regressions help distinguish redundant tests from essential coverage when simplifying a test suite with AI.
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Planning for the Unknown, Within Reason
How to leave room for plausible business changes while keeping speculative flexibility, discovery work, and present delivery costs in proportion.
Zoom In, Zoom Out: Reasoning About Software Systems
Using individual capabilities and complete business workflows together to understand a system, expose missing decisions, and judge whether its pieces actually fit.
“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.
Why a Modular Monolith Is Often the Right Platform for a Small Team
How small teams can build clear capability boundaries without taking on the operational cost of distributed systems before the business has earned it.