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Everything I’ve published, newest first. Leadership, platforms and the economics of engineering with AI from the day job; compilers and agents from the night shift.
2026
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How to Manage Remote Engineering Teams: What Works, What Breaks How to manage distributed engineering teams across time zones: the four failure modes dashboards miss, the async habits that fix them, and what sti... Leadership → 002 
How a Compiler Works: Lexer, Parser, MIR and Cranelift in Miri How a compiler works, end to end: lexing, parsing, type checking, MIR lowering and Cranelift code generation, shown on Miri, a GPU-first language i... Miri → 003 
What Is a Unit Test? Why AI-Written Code Needs Them More A unit test pins one function to its expected behaviour. Why AI-written code needs unit testing more, where it doesn't help, and what replaced the ... Software Engineering → 004 
Why I’m Building a GPU-First Programming Language in 2026 The origin story of Miri, a GPU-first programming language built for the AI era — why I chose Rust, and how LLMs changed what a solo compiler proje... Miri →
How to Manage Remote Engineering Teams: What Works, What Breaks How to manage distributed engineering teams across time zones: the four failure modes dashboards miss, the async habits that fix them, and what sti... Leadership → 002 How a Compiler Works: Lexer, Parser, MIR and Cranelift in Miri How a compiler works, end to end: lexing, parsing, type checking, MIR lowering and Cranelift code generation, shown on Miri, a GPU-first language i... Miri → 003 What Is a Unit Test? Why AI-Written Code Needs Them More A unit test pins one function to its expected behaviour. Why AI-written code needs unit testing more, where it doesn't help, and what replaced the ... Software Engineering → 004 Why I’m Building a GPU-First Programming Language in 2026 The origin story of Miri, a GPU-first programming language built for the AI era — why I chose Rust, and how LLMs changed what a solo compiler proje... Miri → 2025
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Platform Engineering Trends 2026: IDPs, AI, Security and Cost Platform engineering trends for 2026 from a 40-engineer platform org: the IDP as source of truth, AI as a governed user, security and cost as defau... Leadership → 006 
Balancing Collaboration and Direction in Engineering Leadership How engineering leaders can balance team collaboration with clear direction — when to seek input, when to decide, and how to avoid the traps of bot... Leadership → 007 
How to Craft a Platform Engineering Vision That Works How to build a Platform Engineering vision that settles real disagreements — defining principles, drawing boundaries, measuring adoption in a 40-en... Leadership →
Platform Engineering Trends 2026: IDPs, AI, Security and Cost Platform engineering trends for 2026 from a 40-engineer platform org: the IDP as source of truth, AI as a governed user, security and cost as defau... Leadership → 006 Balancing Collaboration and Direction in Engineering Leadership How engineering leaders can balance team collaboration with clear direction — when to seek input, when to decide, and how to avoid the traps of bot... Leadership → 007 How to Craft a Platform Engineering Vision That Works How to build a Platform Engineering vision that settles real disagreements — defining principles, drawing boundaries, measuring adoption in a 40-en... Leadership → 2019
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