Swizec Teller

I've been on a quest lately to reclaim my sanity at work. The latest advancement is a bot that auto-approves and merges low risk PRs with no oversight https://twitter.com/Swizec/status/2093478262639046864 Back in July I wrote that code review is the bottl

I've been a dad for 3 months now so obviously I have it all figured out and there's nothing new to learn. My theories are rock solid and definitely apply to everyone. Here's what B2B software taught me about having kids. Most startups fail for a very basi

The points are fake and the score is made up but we always finish 70% of our sprint and get around 30 points done per person. Hey waitaminute that almost sounds useful I've said before that working in a high growth startup is like spinning plates - you do

I've been experimenting with different approaches to build a system where humans and agents can ship fast safely. Think I've found something that works - custom linters. Engineering teams produce more code than ever. I'm sure you've noticed. But you can't

I'm in the middle of migrating our design system and it's fun to see how much AI can do. Just last night I stayed up until 1am to ship another big portion. Wait why am I coding at 1am if AI's doing all the work? It's the spaceship problem. You start with

Feedback from an expert is how you learn taste. Your code doesn't matter until it's shipped.

This is a classic startup war story: Someone had built a leaky rowboat. It worked! Then we started flying the rowboat as a Cessna. What we needed was an aircraft carrier.

Maybe AI will replace engineers, I don't know. Self-driving cars were just around the corner for 50 years. Until then we've got shit to do and engineers to hire.

How you approach software engineering makes it harder or easier to handle interruptions and other chaos. Writing a behavioral interview made me realize this is a learnable skill!

When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.