Category: Engineering
I Am Not Anti-AI
Introduction: The Wrong Argument By now, after discussions around AI in engineering, security, and system design, some readers will already have reached a conclusion. “You’re anti-AI.” That conclusion is incorrect. I use AI. I work with AI. I understand what it is capable of, and just as importantly, what it is not. The discourse around […]
SOP: Seat of Pants Operations
Introduction: The Death of Procedure SOP stands for Standard Operating Procedure. At least, it used to. Today, it increasingly stands for something else: Seat of Pants. The modern technology industry has developed an almost pathological aversion to process, procedure, and institutional memory. Documentation is viewed as overhead. Research is viewed as delay. Verification is viewed […]
The Dark Ages of Security
Introduction: We Were Never Good At This The technology industry loves to tell itself a story. It is a story about innovation, intelligence, and progress. A story where each generation of technology solves the problems of the last. A story where better tools inevitably create better outcomes. Security history tells a different story. For decades, […]
The Death of Senior Engineering
Introduction: The Industry Is Eating Its Apprentices Every generation of engineers inherits knowledge from the generation before it. Junior developers become mid-level developers. Mid-level developers become senior developers. Senior developers become architects, staff engineers, and technical leaders. The process is not glamorous. It is built on years of mistakes, debugging sessions, failed deployments, code reviews, […]