Software Engineering: Code Is Read Far More Than It Is Written
Most engineering time goes on code that already exists. Once you accept that, the practices that look like fussiness turn out to be straightforward economics.
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Cloud & Infra
Conway's Law: Your Architecture Is an X-Ray of Your Org Chart
Assign four teams to build a compiler and you get a four-pass compiler. The seams in any system fall exactly where the seams between its builders already were — and rewrites that ignore this get undone.
Artificial Intelligence: Follow the Cost Curve, Not the Benchmarks
The interesting number in AI is not what a model can do. It is what a unit of machine reasoning costs — because when that falls tenfold, whole categories of product become possible.
Cloud and Infrastructure: Renting Instead of Guessing
Before the cloud you bought servers for your busiest hour and let them idle the rest of the year. The change was financial rather than technical — and that is why it mattered so much.